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Abstract Figurative Paintings

ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Planal Figure, abstract figure, earth and flesh tones, dark background
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting on board, unframed, abstracted, figurative, expressionist, energetic brushwork
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Male" Calligraphy Abstract Painting 55" x 55" inch by Mohamed Hassan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Male" Calligraphy Abstract Painting 55" x 55" inch by Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Hassan is a traditional Arabic calligraphist, he obtained his official license to practice this art fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Waiting II" Figurative Painting (FRAMED) 19" x 11" in by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Waiting II" Figurative Painting (FRAMED) 19" x 11" in by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak Ink & Acrylic on Paper. Signed Signed The selection of Abd Elmalak...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Encapsulated
Located in New York, NY
Encapsulated 2021 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 inches Caption: Encapsulated is a pod like enclosure holding something within. "Natural Tendencies" by Jessica Krause Smith showcases work...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Emoji
Located in New York, NY
Emoji 2019 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 inches Caption: There is a smiley face emoji hidden in plain sight in the painting. When I made this work I was thinking about the recent extensi...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Georgian Contemporary Art by Keti Bubunauri - Volcano
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil, acrylic on canvas Keti Bubunauri is Georgian artist born in 1993 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her source of inspiration are people, their faces, facial expressions,...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

"Ultrablue Garden 03" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Concrete

Denise Regan "View" Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Denise Regan View, 2017 oil and encaustic on canvas 18 x 24 in. This oil painting on canvas by Denise Regan depicts a colorful view of the ocean, rendered in her signature primitive...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

"Untitled 1" Abstract Painting 55" x 79" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1" Abstract Painting 55" x 79" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of drawing course completion from the Faculty of Art & Education located in Zamalek Cairo, Egypt. Granting him his first appearance during 2015, in the Faculty of Art & Education exhibition at El Sawy Culture Wheel Centre located in Zamalek. Ever since, Dafrawy’s artworks have been exhibited, noticed, and recognized by collectors, artists, and curators with an early certificate of recognition from the minister of culture Emad Abu Ghazy at Lamasatt Art Gallery located in downtown, Cairo, during the same year. Born in 1982, the Egyptian artist started exploring art at an early age. At the age of 11, he won the Princess Nouf award at a drawing competition in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Matt Enger 'Hurley Burly #14'
Located in New York, NY
Hurley Burly #14 2021 Cast acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches Signed, titled and dated on verso Matt Enger’s new body of work evokes a mystical experience combining aspects of expres...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Vinyl

Purdah, dark tones, gestural abstract w figures, black, grey monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, abstracted image of moody figure, with expressionist movement in brush application. Dark grays and blacks with higher intensity red colors popping.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Pas de Deux' - (Duet) from Story of 'Swan Lake'.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
'Pas de Deux' - (Duet) signed lower right. The certificate of authentic is available. Live view available upon request . 2021 Koko's latest collection of paintings are based on the Story of 'Swan Lake,' the ballet composed by Tchaikovsky. The series of paintings capture the graceful movement of ballet and classical music. The second Act of the ballet, 'Lakeside' is where Odette and her prince meet and perform their dance together. The painting titled "Pas de Deux" is the classical ballet dance duet between the swan princess...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Personaje 1
Located in MADRID, ES
Surrealistic human figure. Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Personaje 1
$1,819 Sale Price
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"Conversations" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Conversations" is an oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts two ambiguous figures with orange and red patterns stretching between them onto the...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Eurydice, red gestural abstract w figures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Eurydice in the Underworld, as Hades and Persephone inform her that Orpheus has bargained for her release.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"De Gustibus" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic

Besharat Battle, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Marriage Proposal - Abstract Painting Yellow Black White Brown Blue Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
"The Marriage Proposal " is an abstract style painting by the French artist Maestro Simon Richard Halimi. Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil

"Decompression of Thoughts"
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating large scale abstract impressionist style acrylic on canvas painting by Cyrstofer/Christopher Shoemaker (Italian/German 20th c). Features a grey, blue, and lavender ground...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Impro - Vision - Large Abstract Painting Colors Beige Red White Brown Orange
Located in Sofia, BG
"Impro - Vision" is an abstract and figurative painting by the French artist Maestro Simon Richard Halimi. Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorfu...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Torq Wave
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Torq Wave
$420 Sale Price
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Texas Flood
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Texas Flood
$2,120 Sale Price
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The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Browne's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and gestural abstrac...
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1940s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

From the Series 'Estampida' - Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Master Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Multiple Portrait Cuban store by Cuban Master Painter Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Height 84 by 72 Length in Inches Despite interna...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

India, Circus Dancers. Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
There are many travelling circuses in India. Performances are given in the open air and often just for a meal and a place to sleep. The dancers cluster together in brightly coloured ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Desire
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Desire Ink on archival paper. Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has honed his skills, clarified his vision, experimented, explored and expanded his expression steadily over the years, the results of which thus far culminate here. Clearly, Keith’s extensive travels have roots in the luminous quality of his work, eminently holding the utmost possibilities of beauty and significance. Keith’s most recent paintings combine original comic book renderings that his mother did for Disney et al. and reinterprets them effectively combining the past with present energies and infuses his enthusiasm into these dynamic pieces that you see here today. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017, 2018 Renata Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, FL 2015, 2016 Renata Fine Arts, Hudson, New York 2013 60inches New York, NY 2012 60inches New York, NY curated sale with Harry Heisman 2011 KL/Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida & Beverly Hills, California 2003 Dupont Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin 1994 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 1994 The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Ambassador Galleries, New York, NY 1992 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York 1983 Manor House Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014, 2015 C. Bell, Palm Beach, Florida 2010 Luxe Energy Aesthetics, West Palm Beach, Florida 1995 Time Warner Publishing, New York, NY 1991 Imperial Hotel Gallery, Chestertown, Maryland 1990 National Symphony Show House, Washington, DC 1988, 1987 International Jumping Derby, Jockey Club, Newport, Rhode Island 1986 Elijah Locke House, Rye Beach, New Hampshire 1984 Washington Design Center, Washington, D.C. SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Bovis Inc., New York, NY The Kiplinger Collection, Washington, D.C. The International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. Hopkins & Sutter, Washington, D.C. McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo, Washington, D.C. Oliver T. Carr Company, Alexandria, Virginia SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS RuPaul, Beverly Hills, California Kelly Klein, New York, NY Governor & Mrs. Bruce Sundlun, Providence, Rhode Island Mr. & Mrs. William Aylward...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Tea

"WHITE (EQUALITY)" Oil Painting 75.5" x 128" inch by Charles Malinsky
Located in Culver City, CA
"WHITE (EQUALITY)" Oil Painting 75.5" x 128" inch by Charles Malinsky Artwork ships rolled due to its size. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Charles Malinsky is an internationally acclaimed Canadian painter. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in countless publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most dynamic figurative painters working in the 21st century. Malinsky was born in 1956 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and grew up in the isolation of the vast Canadian prairies. He earned his diploma from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1978. He then spent his early years in Calgary as a graphic designer in educational Television, winning several international awards from the small, obscure station. Malinsky states, "The shear good fortune to be taken under the wing of a small group of the most talented and creative individuals I’ve encountered in my entire life, including Greg and Gary Crossley, Brian Huffman, John Blackie, and Peter Ivens was a revelatory experience for me." In 1984, he took a posting at ACAD where he taught drawing. It was at this point that Malinsky changed streams and devoted himself to pure art. It took seven years of dedicated studio work for him to find his voice as an artist. His first public exhibition at the Fran Willis Gallery in Victoria, British Colombia created a media sensation normally reserved for rock stars and garnered wide public attention. Malinsky’s richly complex, layered visual narratives are emotionally clear and accessible. His suburban prairie upbringing provided him with a backdrop of physical and social isolation, obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. Malinsky’s first exhibitions in the early ’90s, during a time when figurative painting was not considered a legitimate, cutting-edge genre for art, flew in the face of the self-created, intellectual elitism of the deconstructionist movement of the time by creating complex, rich, layered narratives accessible through his figurative approach. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream life, eloquently communicated to a popular reception through his figurative approach. In 1998, Malinsky left the comfortable confines of his Calgary studio and his posting at ACAD to take on the International art world. He established a base in Madrid, Spain, and began showing successfully throughout Europe as well as the United States. Malinsky’s paintings and drawings have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes, Barcelona, Spain(5 works), Collection of the Victoria College of art, Victoria British Colombia, Canada, Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Michael Williams Collection, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada(18 works), Permanent collection of the Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His work can also be found in the private collections of notable celebrities such as Dr. Dre, Phil Everly...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Adverb (frame 02) - Painting by Dax Norman - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Adverb (frame 02) is an acrylic painting on recycled record cover featured in Dax Norman's "Cinema Graffiti" NFT collection. Hand-signed. The works in this collection of paintings b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Heart Attracts (frame 03) - Painting by Dax Norman - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Heart Attracts (frame 03) is an acrylic painting on recycled record cover featured in Dax Norman's "Cinema Graffiti" NFT collection. Hand-signed. The works in this collection of pai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Hero Self (frame 02) - Painting by Dax Norman - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Hero Self (frame 02) is an acrylic painting on recycled record cover featured in Dax Norman's "Cinema Graffiti" NFT collection. Hand-signed. The works in this collection of painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"The Group" Figurative Geometric Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Geometric figurative abstraction Oil on board Well framed and signed
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Shadowless, Figurative Abstraction, Acrylic on Paper, Modernist Abstract, 1995
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Shadowless" is a 26" x 20" acrylic on paper abstract painting by American painter Ray Leight. The painting is in original condition, from the estate of the artist, and it is signed ...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

«Self portrait» Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 2017 Expressionism
Located in Oslo, NO
For Julia Kiryanova, painting is a dialogue – a dialogue which she beautifully facilitates, layering her work with various techniques. At the heart of much of her work an inherent fascination for people lies, intimately displaying abandoned figures seemingly floating in an abstract dream world, where time has stopped everything, but them. Julia Kiryanova has exhibited work at Amsterdam museum, Museum Op Solder and The Holocaust Museum...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Donna Isham Portrait Female Blue Face Black Abstract Figurative People
Located in Nantucket, MA
The title of this painting is Isis. Dark tones combined with accents of blue present a confident female portrait.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Graphite

The Wilds - Figurative Painting Yellow Blue Brown White Red Black Pink
Located in Sofia, BG
"The Wilds" is a modern, figurative, abstract art line painting by Maestro Anatoliy Stankulov The painting is unframed. The vivid colors of his paintings bring emotion happiness, l...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Apology Socrates, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Large Abstract portrait Painting, , gray & black, White , on canvas ,work by Dimitris Pavlopoulos Painting created with acrylic . Colors: gray & blue, yellow,Red ,White , Abstract...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Blue, from the Inevitable Feeling Series, 2016
Located in New York, NY
Misha Milovanovich Blue from the Inevitable Feeling Series, 2016 Acrylic & oil pastel, ink, enamel and celulose paint on canvas. 72 x 59 cm Hovering between painting, drawing and watercolour sketches, her new work represents a form of personal expression that is less concerned with the impact and novelty of popular culture and more about the quiet uncovering of emotion. Her trademark organic forms are still present though now they are empathetic rather than explosively joyful. The colours are softer, somewhat washed out and hazy, as if half-perceived or remembered. The colour palette and the energy of the mark making reference to the now buried source material -  abstracted Hentai illustrations, Japanese manga-infused depictions of male dominance, rape and power fantasies. The never-satisfied, always distracted state in which this dislocated field of sexual aggression persists stands in for our instantly redundant, surface only culture- transactional, bullying and ephemeral.   Her paintings are sensorially rich and and yet muted, the masses of fleshy intersections and writhing calligraphy feel like they are moving out of the immediate present and floating up out of time.   They are soaked in the in nuances of early modernism- Klee, Miro and Matta. She explores emotive, expressionistic tender spaces in these lyrically rendered conceptual paintings - densely layered works that operate in the enigmatic gaps between rational structure and spontaneity. Misha also echoes Kandinsky and his sensuality of musical movement, evoking his concerns with the spiritual, all emerging naturally from the rich soil she has carefully laid down in her previous work. The language and texture of her materials are important to Misha who prepares her own pigment- paying great attention to form, surface and the moment-to moment physicality of her practice. Misha Milovanovich is a Belgrade-born artist living and working in London. Misha works across several mediums, from sculpture to painting and live art. Characterised by vivid colour, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, Misha's visual work fuses a diverse repertoire of images and forms. She often features discarded shards of consumerism - unloved icons of disposability and careless consumption. Misha's work is often a symphonic abstraction. Her colourful, densely layered works are held in a state of tension between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity. She combines depth and surface relief, orchestrating bold contrasts of form, texture and space in her pictures. An intimate colour palette of bodily fluids - red, pink, white, black, yellow and brown - animate the writhing forms and the refracted memories of cartoonish cultural production. A cultural polymath, Misha is constantly engaged in observing society and it’s distortions of desire, lust and attitudes to the body. Traditional techniques have been studied and absorbed and although her work is partly conceptual, it's execution always reflects these hard won technical abilities. Misha's main subject matter is emotion, so naturally her work is highly personal and biographical in ways that create a direct, emotional response from the viewer. Empathy and the universals of human experience - passion, nostalgia, desire and disgust are inescapable in her work. Misha is herself a ‘displaced’ person, having left Serbia for London in her late teens she still carries within her a ‘stranger’s perspective’ and perceives the world as an outsider, someone ever alert to the non-verbal subtleties of communication. Misha's artistic progenitors include her mentor Martin Kippenberger, Wassily Kandinsky and Phillip Guston as well as contemporary artists Gilbert and George, Keith Tyson, Robert Pruitt...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Tanya The Red: Red Rebel Brigade. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bristol Invisible Circus created Red Rebel Brigade in April 2019 to support the Extinction Rebellion Spring Uprising although its roots go back to 2003 and protests against the war i...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Abstract Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Eccentric discharges of a blue-red core / - Energetic traces -
Located in Berlin, DE
Klaus Oldenburg (*1942 Berlin), Eccentric discharges of a blue-red core, around 1975. paint and cast resin on chipboard, 39 x 59 cm (inside dimension),...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Resin

"Amuleti", by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Oil, Acrylic and Sand on Canvas - Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
40 x 40 cm Translated title: " Amulets " Acrylic paint, oil and sand on canvas. The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of-a-kind piece, but he reserves the right to dup...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Sandstone

"Cronus Waiting" David Hare, Mythological Allegory Surrealist Scene
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Waiting, 1990 Acrylic on linen 72 x 42 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.” Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp. In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career. After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt. As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen. In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941. World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors. At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Crumbs of Shadow
Located in London, GB
Christopher is interested in the way that society interacts with the wild and not so wild things around it, the effect that we have on the environment and the living things that rely...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Prickly Pear Ears I" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prickly Pear Ears I" Abstract Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by YASMINE HASSAN Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as such,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

The Nine Wild Rivers and the Seven Wild Rivers, abstract, animals, figures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by the ballroom ceiling of the Ca Rezzonico in Venice.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

"The Inquisitor" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emerging artist Leroy Miranda took off like a rocket a few years back in 2015 when he was discovered in New Orleans. A painting of this self-taught artist with what he describes as "...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Ansia - Acrylic on Canvas by Lillo Sauto - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Ansia is an acrylic painting on canvas realized in 2016 by the Artist Lillo Sauto. Excellent condition The quarantine for the covid-19 has locked us up wi...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Parcheesi Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting by Edward Marecak, Board Game Art
Located in Denver, CO
"Parcheesi" is a captivating vintage 1990 semi-abstract oil painting on canvas by celebrated 20th-century Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993). This unique piece reimagines the classic Parcheesi board...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

landscape - Painting by Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Acrylic painting by Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar, realized in 2022. "My art is for get a peace and pleasing in painting world and gets an armory space, and see the life until d...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Ultrablue Garden 04" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Concrete

French Contemporary Art by Nicole Benjamin - Happy Bees
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper on metal Nicole Benjamin is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Bacoli, near Naples in Italy.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Metal

Emotions in Optical
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Bonr on December 18, 1940 in Vestignè (Turin) in Italy, Ferruccio Gard is considered to be a central figure in Programmed Art, Kinetic Art and Constructivism since the 1970s. Gard i...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Black and White - Oil Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white is an original contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 100 x 3 x 123 cm Titled on the back.
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil on Canvas Titled: Components of Self
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved h...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Finestra con Natura Morta - OIl Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Finestra con Natura Morta is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the italian contemporary artist Leo Guida Oil painting on canvas. Frame is included. Tot...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Alarm Clock - Oil Painting by Enotrio Pugliese-Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with alarm clock is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Enotrio in the late 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Ti...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Nous sommes cons-cerné - Large Abstract Painting Yellow Black White Brown Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
"Nous sommes cons-cernés" Fr. is an abstract and figurative painting by the French artist Maestro Simon Richard Halimi. Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique style of bri...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Black Narcissus" Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

Atmospheric Pink & Blue Seascape Landscape Art by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Atmospheric Pink & Blue Seascape Landscape with Dramatic Sky by leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 12 x 12 inches Fra...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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