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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Photorealist
19th Century genre oil painting of a young woman knitting beside a girl
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
John William Haynes
British, (1831-1924)
Knitting
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 29.5 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 35 inches x 3...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Rose, Realist Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt 1976
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful realist painting of a rose by American Artist, Lowell Nesbitt who was great inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe.
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Ameri...
Category
1970s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dionysus: Bringer of Love" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Dionysus: Bringer of Love" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 29 in H x 21 in W.
About the Artist:
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Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Tractor with Lady Driver Post Office Van & Farmhouse Rural English Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Post Office deliver
Colin Impey (20th Century), British
signed oil on canvas, unframed
dated 2018
canvas: 16 x 20.5
the painting is in overall very good and sound condition
Category
2010s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chess, Portrait, Contemporary Art, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Varvarov Anatoly Viktorovich
Title: Chess
Sise: 39.5x31.5 inches, (100x80 cm)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Hand painted, original, one of a kind, Ready to Hang
Introducing our "Che...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Antonia" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Antonia" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 30 in H x 38 in W.
About th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fragility of Fate, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Fragility of Fate" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 38.5 in H x 42.5 in...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blood Orange, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Garuda" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 38.5 in H x 42.5 in W.
About the Artist:
For as long as ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th century portrait of a young Scottish/British boy in school uniform
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of a young boy possible in a School Uniform.
With the label on the reverse being from Scottish panel makers, we bel...
Category
1840s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Lenaia" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Lenaia" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 21 in H x 29 in W.
About the Artist:
For as long as I ca...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Oil Elegant Figures on Beach Parasols & Tents
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century
Title: Elegant Figures on the Beach
Medium: oil painting on board, framed
Size:
framed: 10.5 x 12.5 inches
painting: 7.5 x 9.75 inches...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Solitary Confinement, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer's "Solitary Confinement" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed and ready to hang. The framed measurements are 22 in H x 26 in W.
About the Artist:
For a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Luminalia" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wax
"Crew Practice" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sheri Farabaugh's "Crew Practice" is a handmade, original oil painting that depicts an aerial view of a rowing team rowing through a calm current.
Artist...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Napoleonic Wars Marine 1800's Oil Painting Soldiers on Beach War Ship at Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, circa 1800
Napoleonic Wars Marine Scene
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 10.5 x 13 inches
canvas: 8 x 10 inches
private collection, England
condition: The painting is i...
Category
Early 1800s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Early 19th Century Victorian School Classroom Chaos Scene, gilt fram
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Early Victorian Classroom Scene
19th Century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 22 x 28 inches
canvas: 17 x 24 inches
provenance: from a UK collection
The painting is in very good and pr...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian Oil Painting Young Family Roasting Chestnuts by Fireside Cottage
By Mark William Langlois
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Chestnuts by the fireside
Mark William Langlois ( British, 1848-1924)
signed bottom right
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 26 x 21 inches
painting: 21 x 27 inches
provenance: private co...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Muse Box, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Muse Box" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an open box of multi-colored donuts with colorful toppings
Gre...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape, cows drinking from the stream
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape with cows drinking from a stream.
Abraham Hulk Junior was born in the Netherlands in 1851 to ren...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English 19th century Victorian River landscape, with fisherman by Riverside
Located in Woodbury, CT
Walter Williams,
English River landscape
Walter Williams was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era and a member of the Williams family of painters. He was born George Walter Williams on 29 November 1834 in London, being the son of the well-known Victorian landscape painter George Augustus Williams...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine British 1830's Oil Painting Travellers Wooded Landscape Cattle Ancient Ruin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Circle of Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
British School circa 1830's
inscribed verso
oil on panel, framed
framed: 9 x 10 inches
board: 5 x 6.5 inches
provenance: privat...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Signed Oil River Cottage Sunset Scene Figure in Wooden Punt
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The River Cottage
by Henry Cooper (British, active between 1890-1930)
signed lower corner
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed size: 24 x 32 inches
condi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Metus (Fear)
By Yonder Castillo
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Two sisters wrapped in webbings and covered in spiders. This artist has dove deep into the fear of arachnophobia. When looking at this piece people at first spot the dew on the webbi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
19thC portrait of the Duc De Chartres and Louis Philippe with their horses
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted late 19th century watercolor of the Duc De Chartres and Louis Philippe with their horses out Fox hunting.
The piece is a fine quality watercolor, well framed in an Eng...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Garlic Scapes" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sheri Farabaugh's "Garlic Scapes" is a handmade, original oil painting that hyper realistically depicts curly sprouts of garlic with a dark background....
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Victorian Oil Painting Barge Boats by Pastoral River Sunset Cattle Grazing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 19th Century English School
Title: Barges In A River Landscape at Sunset, Cattle resting in pastoral landscape
Medium: o...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Irish Lough Castle View In Kerry Highlands Ireland Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Circle of Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
VIew In Kerry Highlands, Ireland
watercolor/gouache on board,
framed
glass over picture
framed: 10 x 14 inches
board: 18 x 21 in...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Irish/ American Signed Oil Painting Shipwreck at Sea dated 1883
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John T. LeMon, Irish 1866-1941
Born in Belfast in 1866, LeMon emigrated to the U.S. in 1898 and practised as an artist in San Francisco. He worked in oils and pastels, and depicted l...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Victorian Norwich School Oil Thatched Cottages in Rural Landscape, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Norwich School, circa 1876
Title: 'Norfolk Clay Lump and Thatched Cottages'.
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 24 x 31 inches
Painting: 19 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collection, East Anglia...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Classic British Sporting Art Oil Painting - Racehorse with Jockey Up
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Jockey Up'
English School, 20th century
oil painting on canvas
canvas: 25 x 27 inches
framed: 30 x 32 inches
provenance: private collection, Dorset, England...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century genre oil painting of children at a recital
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Jean Pierre Haag
French, (1842-1921)
The Students’ Recital
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1891
Image size: 26.75 inches x 38.75 inches
Size including frame: 34.75 inches x 46.75 inch...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mono-Poli III - Realism, Photorealistic Oil Painting, Colorful, Hyperrealism
Located in Salzburg, AT
„He is a declared painter with full awareness of his conceptual past. His works, near to photo-realism, show objects in a garish intense coloristic. It is the process of painting, th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures on a frozen lake with castle, fishing boats, skaters, horses and a storm
Located in Woodbury, CT
Dutch Style scene of people on a frozen lake.
Oils on canvas which has been laid down onto aboard.
Framed in a Vintage American gold frame.
Possibly an Italian painter working ...
Category
1970s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Track Alongside The Fishing River Sunset Landscape Fine Antique British
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
ARTHUR DE BREANSKI (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
The River Road
watercolor/gouache on board,
Signed and framed
glass over picture
framed: 20.5 x 26.5 inches
board: 13.5 x 21.5 inches
condit...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Elegant Belle Epoque Parisian Scene Horse & Carriage Flower Sellers & Ladies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed Karine Girard
Title: "The Flower Seller", a beautiful Parisian scene from the Belle Epoque period, d...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 1800's Scottish Oil Painting, Figures in Highland Landscape Golden Light
By Patrick Nasmyth
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Circle of Patrick Nasmyth (1787-1831) British
Title: A Highland Landscape with Figures in the foreground,
Medium: Oil on Card, Inscribed on a label verso
Size:
car...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
English 19th century Victorian Antique portrait of a seated lady in her Interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
English 19th century Victorian Antique portrait of a seated lady in her Interior
Victorian portrait interior.
John Waston Chapman was a pa...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Antique English Oil Painting River Scene Figure in Old Punt by British Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English school (late 19th/ early 20th century)
A river scene with figure in a punt,
oil painting on board: 11.5 x 17 inches
framed: 18 x 25 inches
condition: very good and presentabl...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Large Antique Scottish Oil Painting Mother & Daughter in Highland Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Path
Scottish School, circa 1830's
Oil painting on canvas, framed
framed size: 34 x 28 inches
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
condition: very good and ready to hang
provenance: f...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English Civil War Period Street View under Moonlight Huge Oil Painting on Canvas
By Frank Hider
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Civil War
by Frank Hider (British, 1861-1933)
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
frame: 30 x 48.5 inches
provenance: private collection, En...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Floating Between Wars - Contemporary, Cityscape, Skate, Woman, Winter, White
By Mihai Florea
Located in Berlin, DE
Floating Between Wars, 2021
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 H x 19 11/16 W in.
60 H x 50 W cm
The painting imagines a city in a continuous present in which elements of the past intertwine with...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tranquil English River Landscape with old Stone Bridge, signed original oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: by Gordon Allen, British late 20th century
Title: The Old Stone Bridge
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 25 x 35 inches
Canvas : 2...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Napoleonic Wars Period French Tall Ships at Sea, Signed Oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed by Eug. Mavie
Title: Napoleonic War Ships at Sea, beautifully detailed with remarkable detailing.
Medium: oil on canvas, unfram...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English 19th century Victorian Cottage Garden Harvest landscape, with flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
This is a wonderful outstanding quality scene of an English cottage garden scene.
The quality of the piece is amazing with a real understanding of how to make a very desirable painting. Charles James Lewis, was baptized at St Giles, Camberwell, London on 6 October 1830, son of Charles Thomas Lewis, a clerk at the bank of England, and his wife Sarah Hyde née Bennett (1805-1872), who married at Tottenham, London on 11 June 1825. In 1851, a 20-year-old student in painting, living at 17 Nelson Square, Camberwell with his 52-year-old married father Charles and a 64-year-old 'unmarried' Sarah Lewis. Charles married at Camberwell in 1854, Mary Ann Matilda Hammond Shetton, and in 1871, a 50-year-old landscape artist, living at 2 Cheyne Walk...
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1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Early 20th Century Worcestershire landscape oil painting of a plough team
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
David Bates
British, (1840-1921)
The Plough Team, Bredon’s Norton
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1908, further inscribed verso
Image size: 15.5 inches x 23.5 inches
Size including frame: 21.5 inches x 29.5 inches
A lovely landscape painting of a plough team on a country track near Bredon’s Norton by David Bates. Bredon’s Norton is a village located in the Cotswolds, on the slopes of Bredon Hill in South Worcestershire. The America women’s rights activist Victoria Woodhull Martin moved to the village in 1901 and by 1908 had set up an agricultural school for women at her Norton’s Park estate. The Antarctic explore Raymond Priestley also lived there. Although Bates was living in Surrey at the time of this painting, he would have been familiar with the area after having lived and worked in Worcestershire for some considerable time. He would have also most likely been aware of Victoria Woodhull Martin and the school.
David Bates was born in March, Cambridge in 1840 to Benjamin Bates a shoe maker and Sarah Bates. By 1851, the family had moved to Upton upon Severn in Worcestershire and from 1855 Bates became an apprentice at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Works in Worcester. There he developed his artistic talent, painting flower decorations onto vases and plates. At some point after 1861, he became a full time artist and made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1863, continuing to exhibit there until 1893. He also exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor Gallery.
He married Elizabeth Higgs from Worcester in 1867 and they lived at Cherry Orchard, Bath Road in Worcester where their children were later born. Their second child John Bates Noel (1870-1927) became a landscape artist and their younger son David Samuel...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Cruller" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Cruller" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a donut with a ridged pattern and cast shadow.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Flapping Mallard Ducks Dropping Onto The Mill Stream
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley (British, 20th century) dated 1995 and inscribed verso
Title - Mallards Dropping On The Mill Stream
Medium: gouache/water...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Naval Maritime Oil Painting Historical Ships at Sea, Finely Detailed Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Signed by Eug. Mavie. French 20th century
Title: Classical Warships at Sea.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Painting: 18 x 25.5 inches
Colours: Blue, red, orange...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Genre oil painting of a children’s coronation marching band
By Joseph Clark
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Joseph Clark ROI
British, (1834-1926)
The Coronation March
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1902
Image size: 25.5 inches x 19.5 inches
Size including frame: 32.5 inches x 26.75 inches
This painting by Joseph Clark depicts a lively group of boys leading a patriotic parade through a village. Two of the older children hold standards aloft, whilst the others wave flags or play instruments. In 1902, at the time of this painting Clark was living on Pinner Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill. The church depicted is very similar to Pinner Parish Church, which would have been the closest one to him at the time. On 9 August of that year, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra took place at Westminster Abbey. Special events were held all across the country to mark the occasion. Clark would probably have attended his local celebrations and was most likely was inspired to record his version of it.
Joseph Clark was born on 4th of July 1834 at Cerne Abbas, Dorset. He was the son of William Henry Clark, a draper and his wife Susanna (née Shepherd). After the death of his father, his mother encouraged her son to move to London to study at the Leigh’s Academy, (now Heatherley School of Fine Art) which was set up by James Matthews Leigh in 1848. He later continued his artistic education by enrolling at the Royal Academy School and began specialising in genre scenes.
He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1857 with ‘The Sick Child...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Unveiled" Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Vakseen's "Unveiled" is an original, hand made acrylic painting that depicts layers of color and hyper realistically painted magazine cutouts.
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Fine French Marine Oil Painting Fishing Boat on Choppy Seas, signed original
By Jean Laurent
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jean Laurent (French 1898-1988), signed lower front
Title: Sailing Boat on Choppy Seas
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 15 x 19 inches
Board: 11 x 15 inches
...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Victorian Oil Painting Cow Milking On A Riverbank with Church Beyond
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: 19th Century English School
Title: Milking on a riverbank with church beyond
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Size: 19 x 23 ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1830s English Rural Landscape Large Oil Painting Figures with Dog & Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, circa 1830's, follower of John Constable
Title: The Rural Lane
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 22 x...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Roman Noon" Classical Grape Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Roman Noon" is an exquisitely detailed classical still life by Victoria Novak, rendered in oil on canvas in 2014. This artwork, within its decorative f...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Candy Eyes issue #2 - 21st Century, Portrait, Red, Green Eyes, Figurative, Woman
By Mihai Florea
Located in Berlin, DE
Candy Eyes issue #2, 2010
Oil on canvas (Signed front upper left corner)
13 4/5 H × 10 1/5 W in
35 H × 26 W cm
Through his works, Mihai Florea equally satirizes, the one who produce...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Halo" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Halo" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the glow of a lit candle creating a halo around its form.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cul...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Panel
"Better to Burn Out" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Better to Burn Out" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dollar bill in flames.
Gregory was born in Kansas City,...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fine Victorian Grand Tour Oil Painting Travellers at Temple of Vista at Tivoli
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School (19th Century), inscribed verso
Title: The Temple of Vista at Tivoli.
Medium: oil on artists board, framed
Framed: 13 x 16 inches
Painting: 9 x 12....
Category
19th Century Victorian 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.
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