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Figurative Portrait of a Nude Male Model Handsome example of a vibrant figurative of a nude male model by Katherine Kallick (American, b. 1952). Med...

Hard Conversations by Murray Duncan, 2023 Mix media on artist board Size - 48" x 60" x 2" Unframed Murray Duncan is a self-taught creative visionary. Know for his large-scale, expre...

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...

"Irises in the Wind" is a striking, contemporary floral painting created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Known for her unique expressionist style, Mougenot moves beyond merely rep...

Acrylic and acrylic ink on paper Signed in pencil, verso 10.5 x 8 inches, sheet 18.5 x 16 inches, frame This work is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes frame.

Acrylic on paper Signed in pencil, verso 10.5 x 8 inches, sheet 21 x 18 inches, frame This work is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes frame.

This contemporary, vibrant abstract expressionist floral painting, executed with the touch of Impressionism and the intensity of Fauvism, was created by French artist Natalya Mougeno...

Swiss artist Edith Konrad paints figurative abstract compositions with mixed media on canvas. She layers her expression of her emotional response to the subjects with dynamic texture...

Black and White Nude Woman in Acrylic, Gouache, and Charcoal on Paper Black and white painting of a woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine ...

"Woman of Heart" is a striking contemporary abstract expressionist painting by French artist Natalya Mougenot, blending elements of art naïve and figurative art. As part of her Women...

Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...

As is generally the case with my paintings, this work proceeded from a place of unknowing. The specificity of imagery and technique belie the non-specific character of the ideas and narratives presented. The imagery is not tied to any pre-existent source (textual or other). It is not preconceived by the artist, rather it is produced spontaneously in the process of painting. That said, it seems both easy and sensible to connect the imagery in this painting to common cultural material, especially that from very ancient sources. The central figure is very much like a totemic Neolithic goddess- the sort of which seem to be among the most ancient artistic works, examples are extant from eras stretching back tens of thousands of years. A lot has been written about figures of that kind but of course no one can reasonably claim to truly understand them. Here the great goddess appears with wings and entwined serpents. Crowned also with a glowing orb she has become an emblem of a matristic hermetica. The smaller figure may be less evidently archetypical. She is a younger goddess, a daughter like Persephone to Demeter. She lifts the breasts of her mother signifying perhaps how the presence of the child evokes the nurturing qualities of the mother or how Persephone’s seasonal ascent from the underworld awakens in her mother the impulse to again give life to the world. The cluster of gynomorphic figures contained by the crescent moon at the center of the painting refer to the balanced transformations of the lunar cycle and their mysteriously harmonic physical manifestation in the vital cycles of a woman’s body. At their axis is the cycloptical abdomen of the figure enthroned on the moon. The entire totem rises from a terrestrial gateway into an open landscape. In the background megaliths obscure the horizon. They represent a first boundary in time- the beginning of history. Below is the gateway, the opening to an inner earth...