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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Color:  Blue
Tropical Monster green, celestial, blue, monster, creatures, mystery, breasts
Located in London, GB
A Tropical Monster is from the Indian Ocean, surrounded by fish and partly fish itself, eating people like popcorn. All my underwater monsters are fears of hidden danger, but what ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Carmelo Niño, Amantes con escena, 2019, 200 x 400 cm, 78.7 x 157.4 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño Amantes con escena, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 400 cm 78.7 x 157.4 in. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Blue Pool 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Fallen Goddess" Oil Painting 59" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fallen Goddess" Oil Painting 59" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube. A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provoc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Ginger Lilies IV
Located in New York, NY
Leigh Wen’s works reflect her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nat...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Running Men
Located in Long Island City, NY
Running Men by Krzysztof Kokoryn, Polish (1964) Date: 2002 Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower margin Size: 31 x 40 in. (78.74 x 101.6 cm) Frame Size: 37 x 45 inches
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Ascoltando I Fulmini Listening to Lightning
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"TOTÉM DE GRITOS", MesoAmerican, Mexico, myth, gods, totem, Aztec, Mayan, dream
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TOTÉM DE GRITOS, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, measures 48" high x 40" wide. Totém de Gritos is recent work and characteristic of the artist's practice – the palette is re...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue I, Oil on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Blue I" is an original oil painting on canvas by the artist Clovis Pareiko. Beauty and aesthetic have always been a major concern for me. I focus my energy on it because I believe ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue Harlequin. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Blue Harleking - a beautiful piece from Berlins' Harleking series. This mesmerising painting is cooler and more sculptural in its construct. The sculptural quality & cooler palette d...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Red Element on Green-1.0
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on canvas. Unique, 1 of 1 piece. Cerj Lalonde moves smoothly from the canvas to the camera, from computers to installations, producing and showcasing an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work created during the last 30 years. His purpose is to pursue a direct, and, in each case, a different communication with the spectator. It can be said that Lalonde works as a team with himself, not only to develop his artwork, but also to sharpen his personal ideas about contemporary culture, trends... Lalonde is putting a lot of time, energy and thought into his new media and technology productive structure, where he can directly address his issues... His paintings, installations, photographs and web pages, are intended to function each in its own way, as an overt revision and critique of the contemporary art system, as they establish parallel dialogues between the artist, the public, and the curatorial values. "Lalonde, the painter" Cerj Lalonde works his painting with a conceptual approach, as an attempt to restate the validity of painting as a practice per-se. His abstract language ranges from lyric abstractionist pieces to many personal interpretations on art history masterpieces, as specific reflections upon geometric abstract paintings like Malevich´s black square series, or Albers study of color, among others. Lalonde holds many layers as an artist. His years of experience as a painter and thirst for art history and critique have helped him develop into a consciously literate artist. Formally, his domain of techniques ranges from drawing, printing, and primarily acrylic painting by means of a wild contrasting palette. But more than any type of formalism, Lalonde´s work is a strong statement about painting itself and how he approaches abstraction from a conceptual viewpoint. His paintings celebrate the power and meaning of color and texture, the imperative voice of contrast and stridence, and the million of possible solutions for a white canvas. I also see in his artwork a psychoanalytical interpretation of art, and a curiously unintentional approach to oriental philosophy appears throughout his multi sized body of work. In many of his canvas, the presence of the square has been integrated as an element of equilibrium and unity to the soul of the artwork itself. Lalonde is specifically interested in the qualities of painting as a media: “What Painting and only Painting can do”. Of all arts, painting is perhaps the most intimate and personal of art languages. It reaches the viewer at a last phase, in the gallery, or museum, or exhibition space. In the meanwhile, there is a time frame between the moment when the artist finishes his work and it gets shown. This space of time is silence. It can be said that the gap between the act of painting and its way out of the studio has had Lalonde wondering about other strategies of approaching the viewer, the critic, and to challenge the art world as a system. New media's and technology In his body of work related to the Internet, the use of language can be established as the first notable addition where the silent scream that comes from his paintings invades the screen and transforms it into words. We can feel the imperative urge to communicate. Lalonde addresses everyone and no one, and a certain/uncertain dialogue is established between him and the anonymous viewer/Web surfer/browser who reads it. Lalonde has produced multiple web sites. With this media, he has taken over a physical/nonphysical space to express his ideas about the act of seeing, of looking, and getting intoxicated by the gaze, by the sight, by the cognitive look, and the subjective one. Another interesting aspect is the inclusion of his images as an artist in several ways. For example, in SELF PORTRAIT AS A FAMOUS ARTIST he presents himself in all the archetypical attire of the romanticized representation of the artist. Lalonde has reverted all his irony and sarcasm as images that appear as brushstrokes on his Web sites. Another image that frequently appears is the sweet face of a very young woman, who looks at the browser with sweetness and nostalgia. As websites are build through layers, Lalonde has as well, constructed layers of impact, thought, and reflection, by means of the multiplicity of images that appear, ranging from his own paintings, installations, portraits, and text. He is interested in what defines art, who validates artwork, how artist’s success has a strong pull to media and critic dependency. Lalonde points out these issues as loud as a silent scream. Phrases such as the Dominance of Curatorial Ideology, Global Mono Cultural Art Discourse or Hegemony of the Global Curatorial Class are samples of titles that frame parts of his Web visual discourses. In his installations and performances such as THE NO SHOW, and WORKING TO BECOME RICH AND FAMOUS SO YOU CAN LOVE ME FOREVER, Lalonde discusses the notion of the self and identity, the artist as a social figure, and the severe critique of the contemporary art system, and society at large. He questions the validity and the ideology of the curatorial establishment, the marketing methods, and the issues of the self - as he queries the conventional paradigm of the artist. On his Web pages, Lalonde metamorphoses from an anonymous painter in his studio to a more public personae. His gaze looks at the viewer, his open mouth screams and questions the browser constantly, sometimes as an outsider and sometimes from the hypothetical voice of the viewer’s conscience. In SEEING, a photographic installation that can be considered as a milestone in his work, he presents a dark room that has many different sized eyes that are looking at the viewer. An interesting aspect of Lalonde’s digital work is the presence of a perpetual reflection that not only shows the act of seeing itself, but in a more profound way it presents the subconscious mind of the viewer. He inverts his role of an artist and establishes a dialogue with the unconscious of the spectator, both through his installations and digital art work...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sally - Contemporary Female Portrait of Sally Kristen Ride (Teal + Yellow)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Sally" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see her murals...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Stencil

Make it Happen - Contemporary Pop Street Art of Black Woman (Blue+Green)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Make it Happen" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Stencil

Girl with a Rooster - Oil Figurative Painting Colors Brown Blue White Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
"Girl with a rooster" is an oil painting by the impressionist Maestro Volodymyr Nosan. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately 3 kg. The painting has no frame. His paintings bring emotion of happiness, love, pure energy, peace and beauty represented by the vast creative power of his talent.” Dear art lovers, if you like the art of maestro Volodymyr Nosan, please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery Snow Pearl to discover all our artists and beautiful artworks. Thank you so much! we appreciate your interest to our work. Maestro NOSAN VOLODYMYR...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Umi III
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Umi II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Slowlight
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Panel

Pine by the Sea
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Palma
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Oil

Muskokan
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Kaian
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Cloud Indigo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Mangrove II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Yerba
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

SELF - Contemporary Realism / Swimmer / Waterscape / Male Figure
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener. Eric Zener’s photorealistic paintings and resins are focused on four motifs: landscapes, figures in bed or on tightropes, and bodies in water. ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Windjam II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Windjam
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

DONDA Shirt
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso BIO: Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s. His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health. Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood. Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020. Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Forgive Them Nigo
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso BIO: Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s. His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health. Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood. Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020. Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

“Rear View Portrait” Contemporary Abstract Figurative Magazine Collage of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist collage of a man by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features a portrait of a man from behind assembled out of magazine cuttings. Currently hun...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Magazine Paper

"Danny’s Bird Pile, " Oil on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Chambers transforms the pastoral into the extraordinary. Long before she puts paint to a canvas, her artistic process begins with the simple act of paying attention. From the outside looking in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Observation in Echo Park
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. Observation in Echo Park...
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Emerald Whisper - Summer Trees and Sunlight, Figurative: Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
framed size: 82 x 82 x 4 cm Ewa Adams is a landscape painter. Her painting is a contemporary take on Pointillism. She builds her images out of circles of pure colour juxtaposted nex...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Chess Players
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. The Chess Players...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

"Snow Bird Wagon, " Oil and Acrylic on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Richly saturated color is applied heavily and expressively in "Snow Bird Wagon." Abound with complimentary color patterns and impressionist technique; Chamb...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Weed, " Oil and Acrylic on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
"Weed" depicts a simple small town scene. The affable subject matter is then contrasted by the abstract coloration and striking treatment of the medium, serving to imbue the work wit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Tomato/Toe Maw Toe, " Oil on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
"Tomato/Toe Maw Toe" depicts a pastoral scene of flowing flora and fauna. Dispensing with the usual small town affectations that usually inhabit Chambers’ paintings, this work emphas...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Moments, " Oil on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
In "Moments," Chambers employs warm tones to underscore the placidity of the rural environment. Additionally, the abstraction of the figures and gestural treatment of the paint acros...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Square du Vert-Galant, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on board original painting of a beautiful summer’s day in the park along the Seine in Paris, France. Keith Oehmig, the well known Maine artist recently completed this painting. T...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Biting - XXI century, Oil figurative painting, Bright colours
Located in Warsaw, PL
Oil painting by Nathalie Pirotte
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled, " Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This work was one of Long’s earliest compositions as an artist. Even earlier in his artistic career, Long was interested in exploring the intersection of various media, branching out into new innovative spaces. This work demonstrates the technique and forms at play that have since germinated into Long’s signature style. Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues.  Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process." “As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”                                       - Bert L. Long, Jr. The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally. Bert L. Long, Jr. "Untitled" 1977 Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Chaos and its devolution
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Art Museum, in San Antonio, TX, Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center, and the Armory Art Center. Jenny Day represented at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. The artist says of her work... I walked in the Mohave desert. Listened to the bees as they hummed and sucked from yellow creosote flowers. I watched the desert blur by as I drove eighty-miles per hour on I-40. I couldn’t hear the bees. The Mohave backdropped a science-fiction film I watched from my couch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Blue Hands
Located in New Orleans, LA
Barbara Friedman’s painting process is exploratory. She paints to discover and likes to be surprised by her work. She sometimes paints over her old paintings while retaining certain ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Foot in the Garden
Located in New Orleans, LA
Barbara Friedman’s painting process is exploratory. She paints to discover and likes to be surprised by her work. She sometimes paints over her old paintings while retaining certain ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

XOX
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : XOX Materials : Mixed media on canvas Date : 2020 Dimensions : 3' x 3' (36 x 36 in.) Description : I view imagery and the symbolism of snakes as a rebirth, a ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Hunting near Spoletto - XXI century, Figurative painting, Colourful, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
JANUSZ PETRYKOWSKI (b. 1940, d. 2004) He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1963-69). He received a degree in 1969 under the supervision of prof. Juliusz Studnic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Gouache

Monday [Bathtub]
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monday [Bathtub] is a unique artwork by Brazilian artist Dario Del Toro. He is a self-taught painter whose career evolved from street art in the favelas to fi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Resin, Acrylic

Happy Mouse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Happy Mouse is a mixed media edition piece by Israeli artist Dganit Blechner. She expresses a unique perspective on urban life and pop culture through her vivid mixed media artworks....
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

'Populus Marilyn' - "Money Machine"
Located in New York, NY
Canvas Original of the great Marilyn Monroe from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook arti...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

"Come un insetto" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
"Come un insetto al sole sulla cima di un albero" Translated title: "Like an insect in the sun on top of a tree". Acrylic on canvas.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Summer To Remember - Commission
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Mixed Media on canvas. A celebration of beach life. Fun. Vintage feel. Homage to the tootsie pop in a fun play off pop. About the Artis...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Summer by the Sea, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1956
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 21, 1956 This Falter cover was owned by Sarah Johansen, daughter of John Falter. She is the you...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Earth
Located in Chicago, IL
THE EARTH 2004 Oil on Canvas 43" x 55" "An Angel brings a message of hope, of a greater power of good over despair and loss." -David Gamble *PLEASE INQUIRE ABOUT PRICE BIOGRAPHY: David Gamble is a multidisciplinary artist from London, now based in New Orleans. His body of work consists of paintings, works on paper, and photographs, all of which have been exhibited globally. Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, Gamble worked as one of the foremost international editorial photographers for publications such as the Observer, the Independent, LIFE, Fortune, the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, and more. Over his decades-long career spanning the commercial, journalistic, and fine art realms, Gamble has photographed such illustrious figures as Stephen Hawking...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Inevitability of Change
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A delightful new work by the artist
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Untitled 4" Acrylic on Canvas painting 39" x 39" inch by lvovich
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Acrylic on Canvas painting 39" x 39" inch by lvovich born in saint-petersburg, raised in moscow, attended various art courses, however never received a professional ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape - Oil on Canvas by A. Donghi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1937. Original title: Paesaggio. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. Inclu...
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Morpheus’ Charms
Located in Sofia, BG
"Morpheus’ Charms" is a painting by Maestro Oleksandr Serdiuk. Dear art lovers, if you like the art of maestro Serdiuk please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery S...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Hybrids
Located in Rye, NY
Ford Crull explore the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. He uses identifiable images such as hearts, ...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wax Crayon, 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.

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