Contemporary Figurative Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Brown
Untitled (I Currently Reside in a Barrel)
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley
Untitled (I Currently Reside in a Barrel), 2022
acrylic on paper
75 x 56 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reshape 3 - Contemporary Abstract Painting Acrylics, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA MASIUL-GOZDECKA
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She studied painting at prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak`s atelier, photography under the guidance of prof. Rosław S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Calm Red Abstract
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Black Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rahim Mirza - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 18 x 18 inches (unframed size)
Born in 1969, Rahim Mirza completed his art education at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, where he studied printmaki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Flamboyant Licht LIght Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Still Life In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Flamboyant Licht LIght Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Still Life In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Spirit- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Painting of a young girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik van Elven
Free Spirit
70 x 50 cm
Oil on dibond ( panel )
Framed 78 x 58 cm ( This frame is included in the price )
Erik van Elven did build a wonderful career as an artist in H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - The 2 Chairs
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl With Rabbit
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large work on paper created during MacDowell Fellowship residency .
It is 60 x 51 inches on paper. There are figurative elements in the harlequin patterned abstract space ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Fishy Tales, colorful brushwork, animals, female nude mermaid reference
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting with most parts made from observing from life in Brier Island, Nova Scotia. Two mermaids interacting in a mysterious way, the viewer seems to have interrupted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Two Bee Eaters
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Basket of Fish
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Nude Woman in a Room
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Tuesday Morning' - Nude Woman Figurative - Oil on Reclaimed Wood
Located in Carmel, CA
"Tuesday Morning," a striking piece by Kristy Chettle, marries the raw textures of reclaimed wood with the supple forms of the human body. The oil painting's elongated 57" x 19" canv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - The Eye
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Woman With Leaf
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Croatian Village
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Catch" Painting of a Texas Longhorn Football Game
Located in Austin, TX
This painting by Ragan Gennusa depicts a snapshot of the game-winning play in the 1970 Texas versus UCLA football game. On 4th down with 55 seconds left in the game and UCLA leading ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Vanity Moreno Pincas 21st Century art Contemporary painting portrait figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
tempio di Antonino e Faustina
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies.
Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life.
We often speak of a "brain drain," but in this case we are truly happy to be able to say that this is a "return," and an important one: an artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Un pittore che dipinge un pittore... - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Un pittore che dipinge un pittore (A Painter who's painting a Painter) is an oil painting on canvas mounted on a wooden panel, without frame. Good conditions
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Belly Energy, colorful nude in mirror w animals elephant lion
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life with a woman looking in the mirror with energy radiating from her belly and looking like she has an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Femme Fatale, figurative portrait painting, woman with braids, bubbly, bird
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Femme Fatale" (2021) by Gail M. Boykewich
Acrylic on wood panel, figurative, magical realism, neo-folk, portrait of woman with braids, wearing a purple glove and holding a glass of pink champagne, surrounded by blooming indoor plants and freshly cut daffodils; interior setting with dark wood furniture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Girotondo - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on wood. Framed with wooden stick.
Hand monogrammed on the front and hand signed on the back.
Excellent condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The hair strand-Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ricordo di un Bacio - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Ricordo di un Bacio (Memories of a Kiss) is a painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Travascio in 1992.
It is an oil painting on canvas, the frame is an integral part of...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Herald under wraps Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionnist colour
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
OIl paint on canvas
Hand-signed and dated on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sweet Memory Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Party Sea Wine Beer In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sweet Memory Oil Painting on Canvas Table Beach Party Sea Wine Beer In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her childhood....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WDYN, 94x90cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Village entertainment. 2021, 94x90cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ho-Humming with a Turtle and a Crown, female nude, giraffe, bold paint, animals
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of woman, maybe a queen, wearing a crown with an antelope head mounted on the wall behind her, and two turtles in the foreground. She looks a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Multiple Reflections w/ a cup of Joe, contemporary, pink, blue, female, cubist
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of the artist standing at her easel, holding a shiny knife vertically which is capturing her likeness, and the entire images is captured in a l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Senza Titolo 3 Mixed Media on Paper Without Title Mythology In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Senza Titolo 3 Mixed Media on Paper behind Glass Without Title Mythology In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paper, Mixed Media
Mrs. Peacock, figurative portrait painting, woman with cat & liies, houndstooth
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Mrs. Peacock" (2021) by Gail M. Boykewich
Acrylic on wood panel, figurative, magical realism, neo-folk, portrait of sophisticated older woman dressed in houndstooth and blue boa with bold jewelry -- a necklace, earrings and bracelets, holding on her lap a white cat with pink ears, seated on a pink colored divan in front of a window that looks out onto a daytime sunlit blue sky with soft white clouds; on the windowsill are blooming lilies and a snake plant (Dracaena trifasciata) and the window is flanked with teal blue curtains...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Dreamer Figurative Artwork The Dream Pakistan Artist
Located in Napoli, IT
Biography
Ammama Malik (b. 1992) is from Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Ammama is a graduate from National College of Arts, Rawalpindi who has majored in painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ronnie Scott's, limited edition art, still-life, cityscape, London
By John Duffin
Located in Deddington, GB
Ronnie Scott’s by John Duffin [2021]
original
Acrylic on Paper
Image size: H:76 cm x W:56 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:56 cm x D:1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Guys - Large Format, Modern Oil Painting, Realism, Colourful, Cityscape, Street
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flikkerende Zee Oil Painting on Canvas Flickering Sea Table Party Beach In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Flikkerende Zee Oil Painting on Canvas Flickering Sea Table Party Beach In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her chil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perseo Oil Painting on Canvas Mythology Dragon Head Rome In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Perseo Oil Painting on Canvas Mythology Dragon Head Rome In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, father, sister and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring and All (2019) square figurative painting, woman, fruit tree, plants, tea
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Spring and All" (2019) by Gail M. Boykewich
Acrylic on wood panel, figurative, butterfly, daytime, skyscape, portrait, woman holding an open book, flipping through the pages, a cup ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Naufrago in un Ruscello Oil Painting on Canvas Rome In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Naufrago in un Ruscello Oil Painting on Canvas Rome In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, father, sister and uncl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vraquier, port de Montréal, 2022
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For this exhibition, I wanted to find the coherence of a life shared between different geographies from Tunisia to Canada. Intertwining the imagery of here and there, I ask myself wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionistic Acrylic on Fabriano Painting "Time Capsule"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This artwork of two women drinking coffee. It is an intriguing piece that captures the complexity of time and its connection to individual experiences.
The artwork is split up into ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Alphabet Soup (2019) framed figurative surrealist interiors painting, fox & moon
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Alphabet Soup" (2019) acrylic on fabric with black wood frame, figurative interior, portrait, woman seated at table eating soup and Bloody Mary cocktail, sharing spoonful of soup wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Acrylic
Moonlight Magnolia (2020) square figurative painting, bird, women, landscape
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Moonlight Magnolia" (2020) by Gail M. Boykewich
Acrylic on wood panel, figurative, outdoors, landscape, skyscape, waterscape, portrait, two women holding one another, in the backgro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Autumn Leaves Abstraction 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Shannon in Profile
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on birch
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Birch, Acrylic
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Autumn Leaves Abstraction 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nandi #1
Located in Singapore, SG
Nandi means bull and bull denotes religion. This religion is the vahana of Lord Mahadev, so, in conventional language it is said to be the bull of religion. In these paintings the a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Sewing 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on Hand-carved Mahogany
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Oil
Cornish Bathing, Bright Cornish Seascape Art, Original Figurative Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Inspired by the northern coast of Cornwall and in particular Daymer Bay, Cornish Bathing reflects the tranquil colours of a summer Cornish seascape. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Melancholy Eve 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on Hand-carved Mahogany
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Oil
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Evening Second Version
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Melancholy Eve 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on Hand-carved Mahogany
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mahogany
Autumn garden - Contemporary Abstract Painting Acrylics, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA MASIUL-GOZDECKA
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She studied painting at prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak`s atelier, photography under the guidance of prof. Rosław S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Melancholy Eve 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on Hand-carved Mahogany
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mahogany, Oil
River stones 2 - Contemporary Abstract Painting Acrylics, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA MASIUL-GOZDECKA
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She studied painting at prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak`s atelier, photography under the guidance of prof. Rosław S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Angelica Angel Oil Painting on Canvas Italian Classic In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Angelica Angel Oil Painting on Canvas Italian Classic In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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