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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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Woman by the Leaves and Blossom_America Martin_Oil/Pastel/Ink/Paper_figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman by the Leaves and Blossom"
Oil Pastel and Ink on Handmade Blue Paper
43.125” x 31.125” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-Ameri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink
"Taken By The Sky" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Taken By The Sky" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a red and blue skyscape.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950s "Short Hair" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Short Hair
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", Unframed
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Love and Nature # 10
Located in Singapore, SG
Nature is a source of love and inspiration and in this present era we have to take care of it. Wild nature is usually associated with beauty and calmness. Love is the most important ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Luis Miguel Valdés ¨La flor del Malecón¨, 2002, Acrylic, 48x72 in
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'La flor del Malecón', 2002
acrylic on canvas
48.1 x 72.1 in. (122 x 183 cm.)
ID: VAL-
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Another untitled Painting- 21 Century Contemporary Still-life of Abstract work
By Bart Koning
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This unique piece of an abstract blue painting leaning against the wall is made by German artist realist painter Bart Koning in a cooperation with his colleague abstract painter Lydi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Inspired
Located in Nashville, TN
Red and pink floral figures.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Fruita Barn" Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Justin Wheatley's "Fruita Barn" is an original, handmade acrylic painting.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Koi
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic and colorful painting of two Koi. Circa 2000. Signed lower right corner "Linda H." Presented in white painted frame. Image size: 18"H x 36"W.
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mini Colours of Portobello, London Cityscape Art, Illustrative Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Mini colours of Portobello By Rachel Tighe [2020]
A stroll down colourful portobello road market.
Additional information:
Original
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H 30 cm x W 25 cm
C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Natia Sapanadze - Valley
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Band of moonlight
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Over the last few years Francien has created a series of paintings, which stylistically dovetail into its overall work. This interesting new series came about by the birth of her lon...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Baitfish, original 34x34 figurative marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
She grew up summering at the beach, hanging around with the seagulls as her parents watched her from underneath their striped beach umbrella, not far back in the sand from the lifeguard's chair. A budding student of the ocean, she does not hesitate to challenge the seagulls as they dive into the surf for their next meal . . . the baitfish! Her feet are solidly planted in the ocean floor as the undertow grabs her and the baitfish with each wave, in this original, figurative, marine landscape. The turquoise and kelly green waters are radiant as the white tide plays off of the seagulls. Adding to that is the tension and excitement created by the bright, midday light, touches of impressionist's impasto paint application and abstractions of sections of the tide. Noted artist Joseph Sundwall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Painting Beach Scene by George Renouard (American 1885-1954)
Located in Rochester, NY
American Impressionist beach scene by George Renouard. Painting depicts a family of bathers at the shore. The figures are three dimensional. The colors are both bold and soft. Figura...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Muse - unique piece by Paula Craioveanu - Mask - Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Muse".
This painting was inspired by ancient masks and statues and it's part of my Neo-Mythology series.
Painted with acrylic on round canvas (20cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Girl on cool blue"
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Girl in cool blue"
An original oil painting by American realist, Megan Eisenberg. This painting was made with high quality Gamblin oil paints on canv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Bathers
Located in New York, NY
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Three Bathers, 2018
Mixed media oil on canvas
63 x 63 inches
160 x 160 cm
Signed, titled and dated (verso)
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Greenfield-Sanders’ landscape paintings invite the viewer into nostalgia, to forge a connection to their own experience. Using found vintage photography as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. They emerge simultaneously familiar yet enigmatic. She elaborates, stating, “All of my paintings are based on amateur slides from seventy years ago. I am interested in the ‘comfortably familiar’ nature of the images and how the elapsed time allows them to ‘prickle with new meaning’ to connect that which was worth capturing with that which is worth painting, at present.” The paintings require a great deal of forethought and groundwork, but still appear unlabored and fresh. Her style of painting, which prizes color, representation and evocation, is activated by both individual experience and collective memory.
Isca Greenfield-Sanders (b. in 1978 in New York City) received her dual BFA and BA degree from Brown University. The artist lives and works in New York, NY.
Recent solo exhibitions include “The Things I Can’t Forget,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Ocean Eyes of Blue,” Michael Reid...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Amazon - original painting on round canvas Paula Craioveanu Neo-Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Inspired by the mythological Greco-Roman origins, these works of art are dreamlike superimposed views of expressive and sometimes sensual figures.
Like the immortal mythological heroes, my subjects remind us of the human ability to remain beautiful and noble despite de passing of time and damage it brings.
Amazons, mysterious female warrior, were recognized as heroines and embodied features like independence, courage, strength. This double portrait of an amazon is a combination of a deconstructed, sectioned ancient marble head...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Heat Lightning Herald I" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Heat Lightning Herald I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a green, yellow, and blue skyscape that's exploding with light...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 51 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 20/16”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Giclée
What a Fantastic Day, Naïve Style Art, Snow Landscape Painting, English Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Fantastic day out in the snow, sledging as fast as you can, riding your bike down the road with you best mate and your dog or just taking it easy on this wonderful snowy day
Snowmen, snowscape, people, landscapes, cats and dogs, happy art
Gordon Barker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Contemporary Figurative Still Life Flora Cyanotype Blue Aquatic Oil Painting
By Amanda Besl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Cyanotype inspired painting of energetic, aquatic blue and white botanicals. Storm (2022) by Amanda Besl. Oil on board.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Tintagel - Contemporary British Landscape: Framed Acrylic Painting
By Sian McGill
Located in London, GB
FRAMED SIZE - 75cm x 75cm
Much of Sian's inspiration comes directly from the places where she loves to spend time; outdoors enjoying the coastline and mountains of Wales and South E...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Eternal Mimicry, 100x80cm
By Yulia Ani
Located in Yerevan, AM
“Eternal Mimicry”, 100 x 80 cm,
acrylic on canvas, 2021
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Expectation II" Oil Painting 48" x 25.5" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Expectation II" Oil Painting 48" x 25.5" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midcentury Oil Painting on Canvas of Boys Fishing
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Midcentury oil painting on canvas of three boys with poles uniquely portrayed as a deconstructed moment on open canvas surrounded by blue with reflections. Signed in the lower right ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Swim
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elise Remender captures the romantic glamour of a bygone era in her contemporary figurative paintings that blend classical fine art and contemporary pop realism. Fantasy, mid-century fashion, and the glamour of travel and coastal living inform soft brush strokes and abstracted beauty; reminiscent of vintage advertisements and dusted sunlight.
This original 37-inch square acrylic on canvas painting evokes a sense of delight and playfully nods at summery vintage aesthetics. It is signed by Remender on the front bottom right corner of the artwork. The sides are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. Free delivery within the local Los Angeles area. Affordable Continental U.S. and international shipping available. This artwork includes a certificate of authenticity issued by the gallery.
Remender grew up in Arizona and is based in Southern California, but she has traveled all over the world gaining inspiration for her work. Her most recent series, Bathing Beauties, which captures the human form and abstracts it through light and reflection, was inspired by the vintage elegance and history of Southeast Asia’s historic hotel pools and gardens. It evokes a bygone era when Ernest Hemingway and Jackie O. were among the clientele.
“I’m a bit of an old soul and there is a sense of elegance and beauty that has been lost in modern-day society, and I seek to recapture this essence in my work. I’m creating a sort of fantasy world of luxury, leisure, and old Hollywood glamour.”
Her work has appeared in galleries in the US and Asia and in GQ Magazine, Architectural Digest, Dwell, California Home, People, among many other publications. Her paintings hang in luxury properties including The Ritz Carlton San Francisco, The Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, and Hilton properties across the United States, as well as in the homes of celebrity collectors including Ryan Seacrest and Kylie Jenner.
REPRESENTATION:
Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “The Beauty Myth”, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 “All American Inspired,” Merritt Gallery/Renaissance Fine Arts, PA, MD
“At the Shore,” Eisenhauer Gallery, Edgartown, MA
“Color in Motion,” Eisenhauer Gallery, Edgartown, MA
“Having a Ball,” Jules Place, Boston, MA
Meritt Gallery, Renaissance Fine Arts, PA, MD
Studio E. Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2017 “Distant Memories,” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Merrit Gallery, Renaissance Fine Arts, PA, MD
“Holiday Gift Guide...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Yellow Flower
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The painting sighed lower right and the canvas size is 23.5" x 31.5".
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heinrich Richter "#50", 1969
Located in Washington, DC
Oil on canvas painting by Heinrich Richter (German/Polish, 1920-2007). Painting is titled #50, signed and dated 1969. Heinrich Richter has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Marie-Pierre Autonne - Un Vol de Nuages Passe
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works between Quebec & Valence, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 51 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 32/24”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Cuban Contemporary Art by Carlos Sablon - L’Arbre et la Vie
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Carlos Sablòn Perez is a Cuban artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. His talent is quickly recognized in the four corners of the Cuban archipelago as artistic projects duplicated in his native country and elsewhere. First destination for the artist was Colombia. He took part at the Bienal Internacional de Arte in Bogota & also many surrounding fairs in South America. His travels will also take him to Venezuela, Spain, Scotland, Germany & England, through exhibitions and private collections. He is inspired by the fantastic school of Dali, the mythological universe of the anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, or the representatives of the Latin American boom, such as the writer Gabriel García Márquez.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oh What A Fantastic Tree, Gordon Barker, Snowy town scene art, miniature art
Located in Deddington, GB
Oh what a fantastic tree by Gordon Barker [2017]
A wonderful day just before Christmas in the snow and looking at the fantastic Christmas in the village...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Fields- 21st Century Contemporary Impressionistic Dutch Landscape Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This painting is made by Dutch Impressionistic Plein Air Artist Ronald Soeliman.
The studio of this extravert painter is outside. Everywhere the ligh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Where Wild Meadows Whisper #3 by Lucy Moore, Floral art, Wildflower art [2022]
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
Where Wild Meadows Whisper #3 by Lucy Moore [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H:67 cm x W:90 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:67 cm x W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Forest lady - Oil figurative painting, Portrait, Monochormatic, Polish artist
By Martta Węg
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTTA WĘG (born in 1978) Martta Węg graduated from the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw with a special mention in 2002. Her first individual exhibition took place in Gallery Art P...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary Figurative Still Life Flora Cyanotype Blue Triptych Oil Painting
By Amanda Besl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Cyanotype inspired triptych of lush blue and white botanicals featuring ghostly, layered leaves and captivating floral textures. Quantum Echoes, Triptych (2022) by Amanda Besl. Oil o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still There, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Benjamin Thomas demonstrates an impressionist scene of a couple having an intimate conversation on a lake-side bench. "I was on a bike ride around the town of Niagara and came back to them still being there," says Robert. The figures bathe in the light of the sunset...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Auggust Sky
Located in New York, NY
In “August Sky”, French Painter and Photographer Ayline Olukman takes us on a journey with her during her vacation on the West Coast of America. Between fiction and reality, the road...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Photographic Paper, Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Cotton
Edelweiss - Landscape Oil Painting Colors Blue Green White Grey Ivory
Located in Sofia, BG
"Edelweiss" is a landscape painting, by Maestro Alina Khrapchynska
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight:...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Onto The Rocks, Gordon Hunt, Original Coastal Painting, Figurative Seascape Art
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Onto the rocks by Gordon Hunt [2021]
original
Oil on deep edge canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Pleas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blue Cargo, Biarritz, Basque country
Located in Paris, IDF
Didier LAPÈNE
(Born in 1964)
The Blue Cargo, Biarritz, Basque country, France
Oil on canvas
27 x 48 cm
2022
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diversity - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Diversity is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2018.
Hand-signed on the lower right. Technique, dimensions, and date are written on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lets go & just swim study - Diptych
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Lets go & just swim study – diptych By Gordon Hunt [2021]
original
Acrylic on deep edge canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Classic work "Jazz Pianist" for music lovers by iconic artist Impiglia
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
A new work by the indelible Giancarlo Impiglia.
Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signature style on the shoulders of Futurism and Cubism,...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
CL45
Located in Wien, 9
Mikesch, who had lived in Berlin as a freelancer since 1966, was originally active as a painter and graphic artist. He worked for radio from 1979. He wrote prose texts for children a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Dialogue V - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, People, Nude
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Break Morning Study #1 - Acrylic on Canvas. Red, Yellow, and Blue
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Morning Study #1 is a 20 x 16-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
REINA DE LA NOCHE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of...
Category
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Thinking
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need the right time to think about important things or creative ideas. If the time is not right, ideas or solutions to life's problems are not easy to come by even though we t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
As a Gift - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Chateau de Sceaux in Parkland, Fine French Impressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 2007, indistinctly signed and dated
Title: Chateau de Sceaux
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed
canvas: 19.75 x 24 inches
Prove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The place of the unsaid #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting Contemporary art
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living beings with a vegetable heart. They roam freely (it seems to us *) between the earth and the air in search of their roots. They bathe and transform in liquid crystal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Figurative Still Life Flora Cyanotype Blue Square Oil Painting
By Amanda Besl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Cyanotype inspired square painting of lush blue and white botanicals with interwoven tendrils of purple. Here Come The Death Pretzels (2022) by Amanda Besl. Oil on board.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary Figurative Still Life Flora Cyanotype Blue Aquatic Oil Painting
By Amanda Besl
Located in Buffalo, NY
Cyanotype inspired painting of energetic, aquatic blue and white botanicals interspersed with whispers of yellow. Zephyr (2022) by Amanda Besl. Oil on board.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The humble pride
Located in Lagos, NG
The humble pride an acrylic on canvas painting illustrating two different positions of the image you stand this art in a portrait position and it's illustrates a personality of a pr...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Roller skater - figurative collage
Located in New York, NY
Hand-cut vinyl applied to Artboard.
No.3 in the 80’s aesthetics series. This piece looked into Americana imagery of which was all over British TV during the 80’s, but with an added t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Lacquer, Acrylic Polymer, Vinyl
Waterlilies III
By Jamel Akib
Located in Battle, East Sussex
Jamel Akib
Born in Leigh-on-sea, Essex in 1965 to English and Malaysian parents, Jamel moved to North Borneo at the age of five. At thirteen he returned to England to pursue his edu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
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