Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
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Waxwing - Figurative, Acrylic, Animals, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
*** Please note: Pictures of painting in frame are only a visualization. Painting is sold unframed
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow i...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Light That Won't Turn Off
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is part of a series I've been working on about my recent trip visiting family in the Philippines. The paintings all contain layered elements of plants, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Biwi, Oil Reverse on Acrylic Sheet (Set of 2) by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shyamal Mukherjee - Bawa Biwi - 8 x 8 inches (unframed size)
Oil Reverse on Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet , 2021 ( Set of 2 )
( FRAMED AND READY TO HANG DOOR DELIVERED )
About the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Bright & Colorful French Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Shapes & Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on board, unframed
size: 18 x 22 inches
condition: overall good and sound
provenance: from a private collection in Paris...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hold Fast XL - Large Original Painting on Canvas - Ready to Hang
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a street art-inspired Neo-expres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Roller Games
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks
Roller Games
2012
Oil and mixed media
24 X 24 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Waffel Haus
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks
Roller Games
2012
Oil and mixed media
24 X 24 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
FRANK SINATRA - SOME CAME RUNNING
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
circus rider, colorful circus interior woman and elephant bright cheerful happy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
an early work by artist on canvas
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with bou...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fruits - Oil on Canvas by Robert G. Schmidt - Mid 1900
By Robert G. Schmidt
Located in Roma, IT
Fruits is a mixed colored oil on canvas realized by Robert G. Schmidt (1923) in the late XX century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Good conditions. Titled on...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Philippe Jacq 21st Century art Contemporary figurative painting red dot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind, Framed Figurative Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1960s original semi abstract oil painting, "Sybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind", by 20th century Denver modernist, Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Painted in bright colors of...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Memory of a Sundown, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shawn Krueger's "Memory of a Sundown" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a rocky shore of a cove where an orange and green sky stretches into the distance reflecting ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Bright & Colorful French Signed Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Shapes & Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
French School, circa 1970's
indistinctly signed and dated
oil painting on board, unframed
size: 21 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall good and sound
provenance: fr...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Live It Up
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks
Live It Up
2016
Oil and mixed media
36 X 24 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Arose
Located in Denver, CO
Arose, 2019
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mythological V (Blem) - 21st Century, Nude, Yellow, Green, Nature, Myth
Located in Berlin, DE
Mythological V (Blem), 2016
Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front left corner)
23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in.
60 H x 45 W cm
(reproduced at page 43, in the catalogue 'Mythi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Black Sun at High Noon" oil on canvas 42x32 original Cowboy Pop art painting
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to announce that we are now representing the Pop Art cowboy and cowgirl paintings of the artist Matt Straub. We at the gallery have been exci...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
S.R. II
By June Glasson
Located in Denver, CO
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The girl with a contrabass. 2013. Oil on canvas, 81x69 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The girl with a contrabass. 2013. Oil on canvas, 81x69 cm
ALEXANDER LOZOVOY/Александр Лозовой (1949)
Alexander Lozovoy remained in the 21st century as the only artist who was a direct disciple of Russian avant gard artists. His teacher was Barbara Bubnova (1886 - 1983), who worked and participated in exhibitions together with V. Kandinsky, K. Malevich, P. Filonov, A. Rodchenko and others. His father Nikolai Lozovoy (1901 - 1992) took classes from Filonov and Malevich in 1920s. In his paintings Lozovoy uses technique and secrets of the old Russian icon...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'''Eggplant'' Contemporary Dutch Miniature Still Life Painting of an Eggplant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dutch artist Nico Heilijgers (1964) works in the tradition of the great seventeenth-century still life painters. In his work we see conventional object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cut
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Cut," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, weathered, and text.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Travel Plans
Located in Denver, CO
Travel Plans, 2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
African Lady - Original Mixed Media by Sergio Barletta - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
African Lady is an original painting and collage artwork in mixed media -ink, tempera and watercolor- realized by Sergio Barletta in 1997
Hand-signed on ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Aradhana-27, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Orange Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anil Kumar Yadav - Aradhana-27 - 30 x 30 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas.
STYLE : Anil Kumar Yadav is an Artist from Kolkata who was born in 1984 a village in Uttar Pradesh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large & Colorful Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wonderfully bright and colorful abstract oil painting, on a very large scale, measuring 36 x 26inches in size. The painting displays a wonderful mixture of various bright colors - gu...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 32 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
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
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Le Amiche 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Lovers beneath a Tree of Doves', New Figurative Movement, Italian Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'V.M. Di Carlo' for Vittorio Maria Di Carlo (Italian, 1939-2015) and painted circa 1980.
Born in San Marco, Maria Vittorio Di Carlo...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
''Olives and Garlic Glove'' Contemporary Dutch Miniature Still Life Painting
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dutch artist Nico Heilijgers (1964) works in the tradition of the great seventeenth-century still life painters. In his work we see conventional objects such as crispy vegetables, ju...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Counterfeit Realities, " Oil on Canvas, Abstract Figurative Painting, Indian Art
Located in Houston, TX
The abstract figure depicted in this oil on canvas painting is an embodiment of all the different shades that color the human soul; good and evil, light and dark, sacred and profane ...
Category
2010s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sphinx and Pyramid 24 x 30 by Catherine Colosimo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
- Comes with a certificate of authenticity
- Signed by the artist Catherine Colosimo
- Comes with a high quality frame.
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Earth And The Planets
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a stre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Tempete de Couleurs
By Jean Tannous
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian.
Artistic journey
Early days (1970-1975)
Paris (1976-2001)
Quebec (2002 - present)
China (2011-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
La Donna Di Persia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and Italian classicism, Italian artist Giuseppe Beddru’s bold outlines, dynamic brushstrokes and contrasting use of color make his work visually exciting. His work is extremely personal as well, drawing upon the Arab presence on the island where he grew up and his own Italian heritage. His paintings are indicative of self-discovery and emotional awareness, while also focusing on color, composition, and technical skill. This balance of visual dynamics and emotional response is essential to Beddru’s work.
Many of Beddru’s multi-media paintings include the visual motifs of classical Greek bas-relief sculpture, flattened within the confines of Plexiglas. Athletes and female portraits in profile are reminiscent of coins and popular classical imagery. After having admired and studied the works of the great masters, Beddru left Italy to continue his practice abroad.
This one-of-a-kind vibrant 22 inch square artwork is painted among many layers of Plexiglas panels. Beddru's pictorial subjects are represented through ink-based mixed media, applied via reverse painting techniques inspired by Italian painters from the seventeenth century. The eye of the observer is simultaneously caught by both a fascinating chromatic balance and the mystery of enigmatic figures who, from the depths of a mythological past, bring secretive symbols to our contemporary present as messages to decipher.
This artwork is framed in a modern, dark brown wooden frame. Size and price include the frame. It is wired and ready to hang. The artwork is signed by the artist on the front in white. Free local Los Angeles area delivery and professional installation included. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is also included.
The artist represents those who are considered “different”, those who are rejected because of prejudice or, simply, ignorance. Popular imagery within the context of Greek art history is overturned by atypical, yet vibrant and beautiful characters that populate his artistic world and speak up loud to make their voice heard. Guiseppe Beddru currently lives and works in his studio in Brussels and exhibits internationally on a regular basis in venues spanning from highly ranked art fairs to museums in both solo and collective exhibitions. His artworks are part of distinguished international private collections, such as the collection of the Saudi Royal Family and notable art collector Graeme Hart (New Zealand).
REPRESENTATION
Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Fragmented Fluorescence", Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 "The Human Form", Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Beyond Reclusion”, Le Neuf Gallery, Belgium
Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Boom Focus Paris, France
2021 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Affordable Art Fair New York
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
First Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA
Art Up, Lille, France
ACAF Pop Up, Maasmechelen Village, Belgium
AAF New York, NY
London Art Bienalle 2019, London, UK...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Colourful, op-art, modern painting "Movimenti Cinetici"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ferruccio Gard (Italy, 1940) is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colour, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colours. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colours.
Gard's work have been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets art art curators such as Jorge Amado...
Category
1990s Op Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
There's No P in Our ool
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks
There's No P in Our ool. . .
2010
Oil and mixed media
36 X 24 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Self Portrait, Expressionist Figurative Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Self Portrait" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 47" x 28.5" oil on canvas portrait features Harmon at a young age of about 25 years old. ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phallic Mother, study
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, and belong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
"Maybe See You Tonight", Woman with Mask in Venice Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine art workshops in the city of Paris in painting and engraving and has ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Cambur' Wrapped Canvas Original Painting by Alejandra Linares
Located in Chattanooga, TN
'Cambur' Wrapped Canvas Original Painting features an abstract banana in vivid tones of yellow, orange, coral, red, blue, gray, and black. Exuding empowerment, Alejandra Linares...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fauvist Figure with Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, colorful Fauvist figurative painting of a woman with vase of flowers in a vibrant interior space, by an unknown Bay Area artist (American, 20th...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LONER- colorful figurative painting vertical
Located in Miami, FL
acrylic on canvas, height 48 in, width 24 in, the painting shown on the wall may not be proportional to the room size.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Idols Camouflage by Tide - Contemporary Art, Nude, Male, Green, Orange
Located in Berlin, DE
Idols Camouflage by Tide, 2020
acrylic on canvas
27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in.
70 H x 70 W cm
The new series of paintings signed by Alexandru Rădvan was born during the total isolation ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, Pastel & Charcoal on Paper by Indian, Padma Bhushan Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K.G. Subramanyan - Untitled - 22 x 14 inches (unframed size)
Pastel & Charcoal on Paper
Inclusive of shipment without frame.
Style : K G Subramanyan was one of the leading artists who was part of India’s post-Independence search for identity through art. A writer, scholar, teacher and art historian, K G Subramanyan was prolific in his art, spanning the spectrum of mediums from painting to pottery, weaving, and glass painting. He believed in the value of Indian traditions and incorporated folklore, myth and local techniques and stories into his work.
Critic Geeta Kapur has stated that Subramanyan was deeply influenced by popular, modern, classical and indigenous traditions. No matter what the medium, be it handmade paper or acrylic sheet, his artistic practice has integrated fluid traditions so as to create a new lingua franca. The strokes that shape the faces and the little blobs, the vertical and horizontal drama all become like a choreographed symbolism that has a sense of play in line and length. Nothing is in excess, nothing is obnoxious but each stroke forms the finesse of versatile ventures.
About the Artist and his work :
K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016) was born in Kerala.
Education : He completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Presidency College in Chennai.
In 1948, he graduated from Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, where he studied under the tutelage of Benode Behari...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Untitled (Popeye) 2021, John "CRASH" Matos, Spray Paint on Canvas-Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
John CRASH Matos
"Untitled (Popeye)"
Spray Paint on Canvas
28.5 x 26 x 1.5 inches
Born John Matos in 1961, CRASH was raised in the Bronx, New York. At the age of 13, he began following the older teens from his neighborhood to the train yards and began bombing. Taking the name “CRASH” after he accidentally crashed the computer in his school, his name began appearing on trains circulating all throughout New York City. By 1980, he began transitioning from train yards to galleries. He curated the groundbreaking "Graffiti Art Success for America" at Fashion MODA, launching the graffiti movement that has remained very active through today. CRASH’s career took off and he saw instant popularity throughout Europe and America, and eventually Asia. CRASH has been part of numerous museum and gallery shows around the world focusing on Graffiti and Street Art, and has works in many permanent museum collections. Visually iconic, he has partnered with many companies for projects including Absolut Vodka, Fender Guitars...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint
Rodeo - Large Original Painting on Canvas - Luxury Fashion and Fauna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English artist Jonjo Elliot's large scale still life works are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Embers Stare 1, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stefan Smit's (SA based) "Embers Stare 1" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a eye surrounded with orange hues and black geometric patterni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
HIM- orange figurative painting square
Located in Miami, FL
acrylic on canvas, height 36 in, width 36 in, the painting shown on the wall may not be proportional to the room size.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seven Fires: geometric abstract painting of fire in yellow, red & orange
By Mat Tomezsko
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Free shipping with code ART2021SHIP through December 2021! Mat Tomezko's latest series of mixed media paintings uses evocative materials and imagery of fire, flowers, food, newspaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Op-art contemporary colourful acrylic painting "Movement as a Message"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ferruccio Gard (Italy, 1940) is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colour, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colours. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colours.
Gard's work have been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets art art curators such as Jorge Amado...
Category
1980s Op Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Red Studio" - Surreal Figurative Interior Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal large-scale figurative abstract depicting two nude female figures in a red interior space juxtaposed by a bearded man seated next to a sculptural bust of a man, with a white skeleton in the foreground by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Titled "The Red Studio...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Embers Stare 2, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stefan Smit's (SA based) "Embers Stare 2" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a eye surrounded with yellow hues and black geometric patterni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
If I Were There the Hills Would Turn Red
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Mixed media
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Orange Colours by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sudipta Kundu - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
A late frost drifted back
Located in New York, NY
Signed on back
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Plastic Band of Brothers II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to Contempora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Siren II, Oil Painting
By Ryan Pickart
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A modernist portrait combining a realistic face and an abstract figure. Artist Ryan Pickart uses negative space to explore how the m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.