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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Enzio Wenk
Artist: Bruce Adams
"Nuvola mistica" by Enzio Wenk, 2010 - Pink and Black Abstract Figure, Framed
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Mystic cloud"
Acrylic on cardboard and wood.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Wood, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
It
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Nemesis
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams often references historical painting themes and styles in order to throw into relief western tropes in figurative art. Here as part of the artist's series Myths and Lies,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Eros and Psyche in L.A.
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Notturno Paulista" by Enzio Wenk, 2004 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Surrealism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Paulist nocturne"
Mixed media on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Coppia di innamorati di diversa etnia" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Acrylic on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Couple of lovers of different ethnicities"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ampulla Veneration
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art.
Artist Statement:
Though we don’t generally think about it, thirteenth-century religious art actually reflects medieval European perceptions of events that occurred in the ancient Middle East. In the Divine Beauty project I filter sacred iconography through the secular lens of today’s societal perceptions by placing found commercial fashion imagery (from magazines and other sources) in the context of painted religious narratives, producing a clash of ideas that throw both sources into question.
Like many Western New Yorkers, I was raised Catholic. I attended a Catholic elementary school, went to church every day. While the indoctrination didn’t last beyond childhood, it did instill a lifelong affinity for the visual traditions of sacred art. But, as the recent economic meltdown has made apparent, conspicuous global consumption has replaced western religion today as the favored path to personal fulfillment. Fashion models serve as the new icons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Self is a Construction
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Simulate Direct Experience with Freeing Marks
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Justice
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picture of People Sitting Before Painting - National Gallery, Washington DC
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on Couch with Boy
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Unbridled (Mrs. Clinton)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbara
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ora ti vedo
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you".
Enamel on canvas panel.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Matrix #3, How to Draw
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Neo Geology
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Macaco" by Enzio Wenk, 2018 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Macaque".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2020 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Come un insetto" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
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
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Shell, acrylic and sand on canvas.
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Senza titolo (Bussola)
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Untitled (Compass)"
Acrylic and pencil on sand and canvas.
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Nascere tra i fiori
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Coming into the world among flowers"
Acrylic on wood.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Chaos Theory
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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.
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.