Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Color: Gray
Artist: Carol Bennett
"Listening (Paper)" Figurative abstract oil painting of people in the ocean
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. P...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper
"Orange You Drifting" oil painting of a woman floating in a turquoise pool
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"See Water (Bottles) oil painting of a woman swimming underwater with red suit
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Rachel Shashay" Textured painting of a woman swimming underwater
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. P...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Suspense Vertical (Paper)" mixed media painting of woman in red suit in water
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Hannah's Window, Swimmer, Water, Work on Paper, Red Swimsuit, Female Figure
Located in Riverdale, NY
Hannah's Window is a figurative artwork featuring a female swimmer in a red bathing suit moving through the water. It is a mixed media painting on painted wood grained paper. Artwork is 26 x 20. It is framed to 32 x 26 with a white frame. This is part of the latest series by Hawaii artist, Carol Bennett.
Carol Bennett spends all of her time surrounded by water, and a great deal within it. Her work is a meditative journey through both the water and through life. She is intrigued by how life continues to flow and change, being both in the moment and timeless. The viewer will experience being in a state “flow” – where the currents of the ocean suspend life and self, and the unexpected floats to the surface.
Carol's work has been featured in many solo and group exhibits throughout California, New York, Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii including a 2007 solo show at the First Hawaiian Center at the Contemporary Museum of Art (Honolulu) and a 2018 group show "Making Waves" exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Her work was seen alongside April Gornik, Agnes Martin, Kiki Smith, and Pat Steir. In 2019, she was also featured in exhibits at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, the Hawaii State Art Museum and a solo exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art. She has been featured in Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, Ocean Home Magazine and the New York Times. Carol's artwork has also been featured in Designer Showhouses in Westchester NY and the Hamptons, and is part of public and private collections around the world.
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Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Tickled Pink" oil painting of the feet of a woman floating in ocean
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Still Water" Bright red and blue scene of swimmer on water surface on panel.
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Havenhurst (paper)" Abstract painting of a woman in a red swimsuit in blue pool
Located in Edgartown, MA
Abstract oil painting of a woman in a red swimsuit in a blue pool.
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts.
The Swimmer s...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Rose Cartemus" oil painting of a woman in a red swimsuit in a blue pool
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts.
The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Presently I'm working on wood, I'm intrigued by wood grain swirling like water and how that ground moves through the swimmer's form”.
Carol graduated from the Art Center College of Design in painting. For some 20 years she split her time between her loft in downtown LA and a beach bungalow in Hawaii- satisfying a passion for culture and the ocean's pull.
In LA she painted backdrops...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Lotus Action Figure" Abstract oil painting of woman in lotus pose in blue pool
Located in Edgartown, MA
Abstract oil painting of a woman in lotus pose in a blue pool.
“I have an open and free-wheeling approach to technique and materials: hypothesis, experiment and conclusion…I am intr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
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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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