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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Color:  White
No Limits
Located in Bonn, NW
Original painting. Acrylic, oil and colored pencil on high quality linen canvas stretcher. Finished off with a soft glossy varnish. 80 x 80 cm 31.5 x 31.5" . The corners are blank...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Color Pencil

That Platform Heel - Original Gary John Pop Art Fashion Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Tickled Pink, Original Abstract Painting, Bright Contemporary Abstract Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Tickled Pink by Alison Gilbert is an original painting and a statement piece at 120cm x 120cm (48″ x 48″) These bold pastel colour combinations are having a party as they dance across the canvas in a vibrant celebration of joy and life. This painting is sold framed, the frame will be custom made upon sale, so please allow for an extra week for dispatch. Discover original artwork by Alison Gilbert with Wychwood Art online and in our Deddington gallery. Alison is a British contemporary abstract artist...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Fire & Ice
Located in Nashville, TN
"Fire & Ice" is an archival pigment print of an oil painting on canvas from Jaime Corum's "Bourbon Visions" series. About the Artist: Jaime Corum's equine...
Category

2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Vanishing Icons – Parking Meter
Located in New York, NY
Ali Eckert grew up within two cultures and has been strongly influenced by American imagery and pop cultural elements. His art explores various iconography ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Victory Gallop - Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Victory Gallop" is a mesmerizing watercolor on textured rag paper, capturing the essence of the Bon Vivant lifestyle. A woman, adorned in resplendent garments and an exquisite hat, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Rag Paper, Watercolor

Amicable
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Oil Pastel

Golfers 13, Figurative Painting, Original Sports Art, Golfing Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
With golfing as one of the favourite pastime of urban city life, golfers became the latest subject of my Lowry style paintings. Golfers appear to be randomly scattered on the crisp w...
Category

2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Last Step
Located in Fresno, CA
"Last Step" is an oil on canvas painting, predominantly of yellow and gold shades surrounding a blue green figure. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract ...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Him with Shadow Blue S
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink

Red S — Blue S
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink

Listening
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca Listening Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 11x14in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1367 collage acrylic paint tape nature landscape bird tree beau...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Tape, Acrylic

#2209D, Original Figurative Painting, Black and White Nude Painting, Still Life
Located in Deddington, GB
#2209D is an original minimalist style drawing by artist David Jones. In this contemporary life drawings David Jones used a drawing techniques central to his practise which involved meditative drawing, helping to create the clean lines and considered compositions. David Jones, artist draws Matisse style life drawings. David Jones art is represented by Wychwood Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Man on the Island w/ White Linen Towel_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Man on the Island with White Linen Towel" Acrylic on Pink Linen 88.5 x 52.5 in. Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and cou...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

MODELO
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Canvas is sretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasona...
Category

2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life with Apples and Bottle - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Apples and Bottle is an oil painting realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror). Beautiful oil painting on canvas. Includes frame. Hand-written notes on the ba...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dreaming - Contemporary Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Ornament & Misfit - Acrylic Paint and Ink by EMPHI - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork Ornament & Misfit was realized by the Italian artist EMPHI in 2019. Acrylic paint and ink on cardboard from the series Tuttifrutti. Hand-signed on the lower c...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard, Ink

Entangled *framed*
Located in Bonn, NW
original painting; acrylic on high quality canvas stretcher, finished off with a glossy varnish. Comes in a white wooden frame and ready to hang. Measurements with frame: 73 x 90 x 3...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Pantomime Horse", contemporary, women, yellow, pink, white, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
Sandra Cohen’s “Pantomime Horse” is an unframed 18 x 18 x 1 inch acrylic painting on canvas, loosely painted in tones of yellow, orange, pink, brown, and ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pink Dreams "Drink Me"
Located in London, GB
Pink Dreams "Drink Me" is an original drawing from the "Pink Dreams" Collection (2019). It is one of 15 artworks with a similar theme and dimensions. All unique pieces and currently ...
Category

2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Untitled (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, Edition 2/10, 20x20cm, Based on a Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, Not mounted, Artist inve...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Little Lions
Located in London, GB
"Little Lions" (after Bartholomaus Spranger) is an original drawing part of the Beast Collection (2022). It was first exhibited at The Other Art Fair London in 2022 and is currently ...
Category

2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Pompeii
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Doing What I Do
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Dan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media

Calhoun
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

8 Seconds
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hunt
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Callista, three times, with her arm" nude watercolor of three women stretching
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signatur...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

"Pence", contemporary all white abstract acrylic & spray paint painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pieces is part of a 22 painting series I created for my MFA thesis in 2017. The abstraction in this series is effected through symbolic gestures, distinctive lines, and organi...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"My Pink & White Heart" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting with Floater Frame
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Breastfeeding", contemporary purple & cream abstract acrylic & spray paint
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pieces is part of a 22 painting series I created for my MFA thesis in 2017. The abstraction in this series is effected through symbolic gestures, distinctive lines, and organi...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Spray Paint

My Limitation is You, Tempera on Canvas by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurukinkar Dhang - My Limitation is You Tempera on Canvas , 36 x 78 inches, 2021 Inclusive of shipment in roll form. About Artist Gurukinkar is an Indian contemporary and modern artist born in 1977 in Howrah, West Bengal. He lives in Pantihal, Jagatballavpur, Howrah & Kolkata. Gurukinkar inspired by none other than renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud. Conflict between human beings and society. He believes that though several millennia ago civilization took place, yet human beings possess a few remnants of prehistoric fragments within themselves, intriguing him no end. Started painting when he was 15 years and has been doing so ever since, drawing inspiration from Freudian theories on the unconscious mind, sexual desires transference, etc. He participated in many national and international exhibitions. Academics • 1992 - Passed Madhyamik Pariksha ( W.B.S.E ) • 1994 – Passed Higher Secondary ( W.B.C.H.S.E ) • 1999 – passed Second year from G.C.A.C (C.U) • 2001-2002 : B.V.A from Govt. College of Art and craft with 1st class ( Calcutta University) Exhibitions SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Triveni Art gallery, New Delhi 2015 Sridharani Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2014 Gaganendra PradarsanSala, Kolkata. 2013 Abanindra Gallery ICCR, Kolkata. 2012 Rabindra Bhaban, Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi. 2011 Chemould Art Gallery , Kolkata. 2010 Academy Of Fine Arts, Kolkata. 2009 Academy Of Fine Arts, Kolkata. 2004 Triveni Art gallery, New Delhi GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Elegancy of Color at Habitat Art gallery ,New Delhi 2018 Chemould Art gallery ,Kolkata 2017 Chemould Art gallery ,Kolkata. 2017 Asian Art House ,Hydrabad, Telengana 2017 Elegancy of Color at Rabindra Bhawan,New Delhi. 2016- M.S University, Faculty of Visual arts,Vadodara,Gujrat. 2016- “Black” at Chemould art Gallery, Kolkata 2015- Elegancy of Color at Rabindra Bhawan,New Delhi. 2015- Chemould art gallery, kolkata 2014- India art festival, Neavue art gallery ,Delhi at Mumbai. 2014 - "REVELATIONS “at Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Center, New Delhi. 2014- “REVELATIONS” at Dubai international art, Dubai. 2014- Art NOUVEAW AT INDIAN ART FESTIVAL, MUMBAI 2014 - Galleria M presents “Lyrical reflection” at Galleria M, Kolkata. 2014 – “ Art Bangalore ” by Asian Art House, Bangalore. Karnataka. 2014- “black ” a group of contemporary art, at Academy of fine arts, Kolkata. 2014- “ Subhalove” at galleria M, Kolkata. 2013- Nirvana Gallery present “Tryst with color “at Lalit kala Akademi, Delhi 2012 - Conflux: at Jahangir art Gallery, Mumbai. 2012 – “Kolkata Canvas”Academy of fine arts, Kolkata. 2012 – Chemould art gallery, Kolkata. 2012 - Tomorrow..group show at Lalit kala Akademi, Rabindra bhavan, Delhi. 2012- “Black” at Academy of fine arts. 2012 "Kolkata canvas" present Contemporary art show in Academy of fine arts, Kolkata. 2011 – ‘PANACHE’ Artizon present Contemporary at show, Hyderabad. 2011 Black present contemporary art show at " The Stadel" Kolkata,India. 2011 "Multiform “contemporary art show at " The Stadel" Kolkata,India. 2010 – Bangladesh Gallery, Kolkata 2010 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2009 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 2009 – Art Entrance Kalaghoda, Kolkata 2009 – Bodhi Tree Monastery of Art, Kolkata 2009 – Khilat Art Gallery, Kolkata PARTICIPATIONS 2012- Audi Art Show in Gurgaon, Haryana. 2012- “Multiversal” Muse art gallery, Hyderabad 2009 – Modern art at Burland Art Gallery, London 2012- Art Show at Aralias ,Delhi. 2011- India art festival at Nehru centre, Mumbai. 2010 - International art show in Denmark Bed Hotel. 2010 - nice expro in France curated by PK Maheshwari, Delhi. 2009- Burland galleries presents Indian Modern Art. The Old court room, Lincoln's Inn, London, WC 2A3TL. 2009- International group show at Royal Academy (U.K) London, Organized by Burland Art Galleries, United Kingdom, England. 2009 - contemporary fine art exhibition at Art Attic Gallery, organized by Indian Art Ideas gallery, New Delhi. 1999,2000 All India National art exhibition, organized by Indian Society of Oriental, Kolkata. 2009 – Pegasus Art...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Canvas

"Body Abstraction no. 19", contemporary cream & green abstract body painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a piece from my "Body Abstraction" Series. It is a series I created during my MFA where I was interested in zooming in on the female body, my own body specifically, to focus ...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil

"Belu Backbend" aerial view watercolor painting of a man reaching down in tan
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light and...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Caroline with Pointed Toes" nude water color painting of a women jumping
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Modern Pose" Original Colorful Abstract Figurative Pop Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

Femme VI, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

The Kiss
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Cream Rose with Pink - small dark green, orange, figurative still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Creamy coloured flowers against a dark green and orange background, with a patch of pink in front in this evocative sophisticated oil composition from master Jennifer Hornyak. Horny...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Traffic
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

«So far, so good, and then...» Acrylic on Canvas by O. F. Hvidsten
Located in Oslo, NO
Signed and dated. «So far, so good, and then...» was part of O. F. Hvidsten's first solo-exhibition «This will never pass». The works comprising the exhibition is first and foremos...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Bound by Love" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper. All archival materials. Paper size: 44x44 inches Silver wood Frame size: 50x50x1.25 inch ANNE SIEMS (b. 1965, Germany) Artist Statement I was born in Berlin, Germany. From 1969 to 1971 I lived near Buenos Aires, Argentina. My first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student in 1986. Then in 1991, after finishing my MFA in Berlin, I moved to Seattle, WA. My work has moved from semi-abstract, room-filling plant and insect drawings...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Belu Dolphin" nude watercolor painting of a man stretching on white background
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Brooklyn Bridge
Located in Lawrence, NY
The Brooklyn Bridge has been an iconic subject of artists for generation. This is contemporary artist Joe Novak's take referencing the early modernist ...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

The Journey 02
Located in Deddington, GB
The Journey 02 by Stephanie Ho [2017] original Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H:70 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please not...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Perfect Empire #4", Classical Greek Sculpture Figurative Study on Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figure study of a classical Greek sculpture of a supine man, depicted with expressive brushstrokes on a bold, deep red background, by UK-based Filipino artist...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - White Shirt Pose
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera, gouache & sand on canvas on board
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Tempera, Gouache

Untitled, Ink on Paper, Black, White by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Manoj Dutta - Untitled - 11 x 8 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. A self-taught artist, Manoj Dutta explores traditions of Indian folk art thr...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

LOVE, AMRITA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This black and white figurative painting titled "LOVE, AMRITA" is an original acrylic on canvas painting by Jasjyot Singh Hans me...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kinetic, geometric op-art modern painting "Autunno Cinetico"
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...
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2010s Op Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mythological IV (Two Blems) - Contemporary Art, Yellow, White, Nude, Summer
Located in Berlin, DE
Mythological IV (Two Blems), 2016 Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front right corner) 23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in. 60 H x 45 W cm (reproduced at page 43, in the catalogue...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Brainiac III Abstract, Large-Scale Vertical Abstract in Neutrals, Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale vertical abstract of brains in a neutral color palette of black & white by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

"Touch", Large Mixed Medium, India Ink and Coffee Grounds on Deckle BFK Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
This large mixed medium painting in india ink and coffee grounds on heavyweight deckle BFK print paper, "Touch", depicts an abstract body in motion. With impressionistic strokes the observer can only glimpse her outline in browns and blues, leaving the finer details to the imagination, giving the work a ghostly air of a faded memory. Signed by artist on the lower right. "Capturing movement is everything to me in my work. It exists in the way the brush moves and the hand bends bringing action and life to the surface it is connecting to. The work itself can then exist as a history, and bring forth evidence of time as the essential force within the artwork. In today’s contemporary world, there are many ways to define art. That is why it is impotent that you, the viewer, understand why I create and what art means to me. For me, art is so much more than an image of an object, an advertisement or a statement. Art is in its nature the undeniable evidence of our own humanity and existence. It connects us, to each other and to our past. Speaking to the parts of us we never will fully understand, our emotions, are spirituality and are mortality. As an artist; I need to speak to these feelings and questions. Using mark-making and gestures as a guide, I search, letting go of control as the moment breathes life into the creation of my work. Through the boundary of line, I give shape to the image. Conveying an overall balance between the moment of creation and the structure of the figure. Though this practice, I strive to provoke a universal connection to the work. One that speaks to humanity's emotional understanding of empathy, curiosity, sorrow and joy." - Chris Lujan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Coffee, India Ink, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

"Parisian Nights" Figure w White Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper

Incandescence
Located in Denver, CO
Incandescence, 2016
Category

21st Century and Contemporary 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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