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.
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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Contemporary
A Peaceful Place - Contemporary Art, Couple, Palm Tree, Blue, Sea, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
A Peaceful Place, 2022
acrylic on canvas
19 11/16 H x 19 11/16 W in.
50 H x 50 W cm
The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Canadian Contemporary Art by Pepe Hidalgo - Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon II
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Clamber, Fiona Pearce, Original painting, Landscape painting, Contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clamber by Fiona Pearce [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on Canvas
Image size: H:91 cm x W:91 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:9...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Pond Oil Painting on Canvas Outdoor Plein Air Expressionism In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Blue Pond Oil Painting on Canvas Outdoor Plein Air Expressionism In Stock
Born in Valthermond, 1971 in The Netherlands. During his studies decided Gertjan to leave the concept of pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 14.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Motion 14.2 based on a feature of the film "Mouchette" from the director Robert Bresson
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Gestures XVI - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Landscape, Beach View
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
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 5
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & acrylic on canvas
Motion 5 is based on a feature about the the film O Lucky Man from the director Lindsay Anderson in 1973
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
KOM Hotel - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Pivoines
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Canadian Contemporary Art by Pepe Hidalgo - Woman 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - Art is dead - Nature takes over
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera,Ink on canvas
Framed - 132 x 99 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Tempera
The place of the unsaid #1 Hélène Duclos Contemporary painting art garden eden
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right
This work is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - L’Ombre Eperdue du Bonheur
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed composition on wooden panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Kazakh Contemporary Art by Baurjan Aralov - Nocturnal Tree's
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Body in the Field 3 - Contemporary, Painting, Blue, Violet, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field 3, 2022
oil on canvas
55 1/8 H x 39 3/8 W in.
140 H x 100 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fragm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Body in the Field 2 - 21st Century, Green, Orange, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Body in the Field 2, 2022
oil on canvas
55 1/8 H x 39 3/8 W in.
140 H x 100 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fragm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - When flowers makes you feel weird
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Framed - 122 x 112 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - Haunting Flowers
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Framed - 132 x 99 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 8.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Motion 8.2 is based on a feature about the film L'Attentat from Yves Bolsset in 1972
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Landscape
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Lanscape
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
46 x 31 cm
2018
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Albert Bridge, Incoming Tide, by Marie Robinson, Landscape painting, Original
Located in Deddington, GB
Albert Bridge, Incoming Tide by Marie Robinson [2022]
Marie Robinson’s Albert Bridge, Incoming Tide is an original urban landscape painting of the iconic Albert Bridge spanning the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The water lily
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
The water lily
Acrylic painting on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
50 x 100 cm
2018
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cherries - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Cherries is an oil painting realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Beautiful oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Zhang Wei Guang , al...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Agnieszka And The Cat - Contemporary Figurative Portrait Painting, Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Malinowska is a painter, draftswoman and graphic artist, born in 1965.
She graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 in the studio of Prof. Kiejstut Bereźnicki.
She...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cotton Canvas
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 17.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Motion 17.2 about Emilio Giuseppe Farina as "Giuseppe Antonio Nino" Farina. The winner of the first official Grand Prix in the his...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Canadian Contemporary Art by Pepe Hidalgo - Dream of Reason
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ghost #22 - Acrylic Painting by EMPHI - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork Ghost #22 was realized by the Italian artist EMPHI in 2019.
Acrylic paint and ink on cardboard from the series Tuttifrutti. Hand-signed on the lower left.
Ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Crepuscule de Loire
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Twilight
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Twilight
Acrylic painting on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
31 x 46 cm
2019
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Kazakh Contemporary Art by Baurjan Aralov - Blue Forrest
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Shadows round the Bonfire by Eleanor Woolley, Original painting, Oil on canvas
Located in Deddington, GB
Shadows round the Bonfire by Eleanor Woolley [November 2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Before The Storm, Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawing. Since 2011 he has been workin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Canadian Contemporary Art by Pepe Hidalgo - My Neighbour Matilda
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait - Oil on canvas by Dimitri Godicky Cwirko - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original modern artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987).
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Label on the back with details about the artwork.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crystal Vase with Apples - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2001
Located in Roma, IT
Multi-coloured apples fill an elegant crystal vase situated on a smooth surface. This vase is the heart of the composition and it captures the attention of the beholders with its met...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 3.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & acrylic on canvas
Motion 3.2 is based on a feature about the film Paris, Texas from the director Wim Wenders in 1984
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Moses -contemporary geometric portrait, Biblical character, mixed media painting
By Marco Araldi
Located in London, GB
Marco’s background is in engineering and architecture, making him familiar with mathematical design and the awareness of geometry.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Night Shift - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
The oil painting consists of 6 canvases size 70x100 cm - Together: 210x200x2 cm
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Reverse - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2015
Located in Roma, IT
Reverse is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2015.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Technique, dimensions, and date are written on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 20
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Motion 20 based on a feature from the film "A Man and a Woman" dated in 1966 from the director Claude Lelouch
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Messier 87
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Messier 87 motion is based on a feature about the film "U turn" from the director Oliver Stone in 1997
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
HUMAN ATMOSPHERE 2 - contemporary artwork, oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Canadian Contemporary Art by Pepe Hidalgo - Space for Hope
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas, diptych
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Regality - Oil on Panel by Sergio Capitani - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Regality is an original modern artwork realized by Sergio Capitani.
Mixed colored oil on panel.
Hand signed on the lower left margin.
Includes frame (fear conditions): 60 x 50 cm
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vases and Fruits - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Vases and fruits is an original oil painting realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Beautiful oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame.
Hand-signed and dated on the back
Zh...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Lélia Pissarro.
Executed in 2020
This work is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Venice
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Venice
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
40 x 60 cm
2015
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Museum Visit II- 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Martin Koole
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Martin Koole
Museum visit II
120 x 120 cm
Acryl on canvas
Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very headstrong way of applying the pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Paris Under the Snow - Oil Paint by Roberto Bertola - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Paris under the snow is an original modern artwork realized by Roberto Bertola.
Oil on Board.
Signed and dated lower right and on the back.
Includes frame: 53.5 x 59 cm
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
West End London contemporary painting by British artist Jo Holdsworth
Located in London, GB
‘West End’ is a stunning new oil on canvas painting by Award winning London artist Jo Holdsworth. Jo is often inspired by people going about their daily lives and the hustle and bust...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chimney Sweeper, 2010., oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Chimney Sweeper, 2010., oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
A boy on a rooftop, looking into a chimney.
Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso.
Works of artistic stone
He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy.
Nugzar's color preferences
The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life.
Source of inspiration
Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties.
Working style
But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality.
Exhibitions
Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Apples - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Green Apples is an oil painting on canvas realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Includes frame: 83 X 6 X 70 cm
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner.
Excellent...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Motion 1.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & acrylic on canvas
Motion 1.2 is based on a feature about the film Der Siebente Kontinent from the director von Michael Haneke in 1987
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Fish
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Fish
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
40 x 60 cm
2019
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Yellow Symphony", Contrast Blue Musical Movement Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "Yellow Symphony", this abstract oil painting by Marcel Demagny depicts distinctive yellow color blocks emerging against various blue colors defi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bad Dog - Contemporary Atmospheric Oil Painting, Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tutu Kiladze - Focuses
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tintagel - Contemporary British Landscape: Framed Acrylic Painting
By Sian McGill
Located in London, GB
FRAMED SIZE - 75cm x 75cm
Much of Sian's inspiration comes directly from the places where she loves to spend time; outdoors enjoying the coastline and mountains of Wales and South E...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including America Martin, Alexandru Rădvan, Sax Berlin, and Adam Mysock. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $13 and tops out at $254,827, while the average work sells for $3,411.