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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.

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Style: Contemporary
Green Water in the Lake District of England with Lush Trees by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Green Water in the Lake District of England with Lush Trees, Vintage Oil Painting by British Artist, David James. Dramatic skies and beautiful reflections are a feature of this lands...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colorful Chaos - Cheerful Figurative Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Southern California native Courtney Simone seamlessly blends her passion for abstract art with the exploration of everyday beauty, resulting in exuberantly inspired abstract figurati...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Dwight Baird Havana Cuba Green Light Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - It's a hot day in the city...blinding hot. Spiffy, shining vintage cars cool down tourists as they speed along through city streets. A spot of vibrant purple hues wit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Pool with Large Windy Palm - Acrylic mixed media on board, white float frame
Located in Dallas, TX
"Pool with Large Windy Palms" is a lovely and calming work depicting two children in the midst of a colorful background with palm trees. The painting gives off a calm and relaxed vib...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

XX Century Russian School The Parade Crowd Military Oil on Canvas Yellow Brown
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, with dimensions of 128 x 120 cm without frame and 138 x 130 cm with frame, depicting a Parade. Russian painting, signed, 1950s, of fine workmanship, fresh,...
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1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Their Whole Private Selves - Two Nude Bodies Entwined, Original Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Alternate Reality #2 - Original Figurative Abstract Art Acrylic Paint and Wool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, inte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wool, Canvas, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Andrea Bonfils - Santa Fe Day, Painting 2016
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Santa Fe Day 1/1 Oil And Encaustic With Silver Floater Frame Size: 36" x 47" (91.44 x 119.38 cm) with silver floater frame Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Encaustic, Oil

"Neighbor", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Justin Wheatley's (US based) "Neighbor" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts the blue exterior of a house with white trimmed windows. About the Artist: Justin Whe...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Sunday in Recife, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sunday in Recife, 2020-2021 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil, acrylic, 24k gold leaf and pink Dutch leaf on canvas Size: 39.3 H x 26.7 W in. Unique Signed on the back by the artist ___ Ramonn...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Place To Rest - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Dog, Modern Art
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Lawrence...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

BLESSED original blue ultramarine nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Blessed" Part of "Nude in Interior" series. Original work on colored paper, with pencil and blue ultramarine tempera on red colored paper, inspired by Matisse...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Tempera

Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu - 21st Century, Male, Nude, Contemporary, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu, 2022 acrylic on canvas 73 1/32 H x 53 5/32 W in. 185.5 H x 135 W cm The work "The Unknown Masterpiece" (a paraphrase of Balzac's novella – Le Chef d'oeuvre...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Hommage to Judas (Triptych) - 21st Century, Rope, Figurative, Brown, Classic
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Hommage to Judas (Triptych), 2008 Acrylic on canvas (Signed, front right corner) 59.06 H x 157.48 W in. (59.06 H x 59.05 W in. x 2 paintings, 59.06 H x 39.37 W in. x 1 painting) 150...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Balaguer Car Races Wolfgang von Trips (Ferrari 156 F1) & Stirling Moss
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Wolfgang von Trips (Ferrari 156 F1) & Stirling Moss (Lotus-Climax 18-21) Circuito de Aintree 1961. BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 ) During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to s...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Look At Me - Neo-Expressionist Characters on Blue Canvas Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Urban abstract expressionism artist Tommy Lennartsson draws on the visual culture of street and pop art when creating his original vibrant mixed-media artworks. He employs a mix of a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Painting Gray Is Safe - Modern Expressive Symbolic and Minimalistic Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Flair (2024), neo-folk style doves in vibrant pink with star & decorative border
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Flair (2024) by Rebecca Johnson Flashe, dry pigment, acrylic, pastel and watercolor on 14x11" canvas, custom Kona-stained wood frame. Neo-folk style doves and star with decorative b...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Pastel, Acrylic, Vinyl, Watercolor, Pigment

"Trust" (2022) Oil Painting by Calvin Lai Featuring Two Acrobats
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Trust" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two acrobats with the female figure balancing on the male figure. Artist Bio: Calvin Lai's art i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Raspberry Jam - 21st Century Dutch Still-life painting a jar with raspberry jam
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Raspberry Jam Acrylic on linen 90 x 90 cm ( framed/ included in price 100 x 100 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Stillllifes she ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Rowing Machines - Andrea Stella- Figurative Painting - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Andrea Stella (1950-2019). The child of Greek immigrants raised in Italy, Andrea was destined to create. His first concentration in the art world was antique woodworking, which lead...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Finding Solace in Foreign Soil 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Pursuing dreams beyond borders is a journey fraught with complexities and challenges, yet it also offers profound opportunities for growth and transformation. "Finding Solace in Fore...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Self Esteem -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, African Fabric, Floral
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” Hebrews 10:35–36 “So do not throw aw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape VI - Contemporary Atmospheric and Modern Lake, Seascape Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

The Jungle's Edge - Contemporary Expressionist Jungle Landscape Painting, 2024
Located in London, GB
Jungle's Edge This a unique modern expressionistic, fauvist-style painting of a jungle scene in pastel colours in acrylic on cotton canvas by British contemporary artist Rose Fulbright...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Canvas, Cotton Canvas

Passage
Located in Burlingame, CA
Whether figurative or landscape, California artist William Rushton has within his work an interplay between color and shape - shapes that are often familiar and comforting, both in their somewhat melancholy subject matter, and in the thick textural paint that he sculpt to turn abstract into realism. The painting is wired and ready to hang. Framing is not required. Keywords: Canoe, boat, river, sport...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still-Life in Studio - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Still-life in Studio 85 x 100 cm (framed in a black wooden frame 95 x 110 cm) Oil on canvas Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'. S...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

MORNING, 100x70cm. Oil Paint
Located in Yerevan, AM
MORNING, 100x70cm. Oil Paint
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait 25-5, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A stylized portrait of a woman emerges from a stark black background. Colorful dots construct her face and upper body, forming subtle contours and shadows tha...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

She Deserve the Flower - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Floral
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
IN THIS TIME, THIS DISPENSATION. SOMETHING NEW AND FRESH KEEPS SPRINGING UP WHAT ELSE CAN IT BE? BUT LOVE AS REFRESHING AS COLD WATER IS, SO DOES THOUGHT OF YOU TO ME. I’LL GIVE MY F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Best Target Shot - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Horse Rider
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Jute, Mixed Media, Oil

Louis XVI #02 original painting by Paula Craioveanu 27.5x19.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Louis XVI #2 Part of "Mixed Moods" solo show, until September 29. Original painting. Size 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Acrylic on canvas. The period armchair, style Louis XVI, become th...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Borders Not Boundaries - 21st Century, Contemporary, Impressionism, Floral Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In the course of fulfilling aspired dreams, life throws different challenges at you. These challenges are borders, not boundaries which are meant to be crossed to get to a desired en...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ready to take a risk . Original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Ready to take a risk” symbolizes the moment before making an important decision, a step into the unknown that can change everything. The interplay of dark and light colors creates a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Benasque 1 by Calo Carratalá - Landscape painting, snowy mountain, winter, grey
Located in Paris, FR
Benasque 1 is a unique oil on canvas painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 156 × 214 cm (61.4 × 84.3 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"In the moment" (contemporary figurative oil painting of a woman on the beach)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary painting "In the moment " featuring a woman lying on the beach makes part of my series dedicated to "Women". This art piece is all about a committed life of engag...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Linen

Lauretta's Feeling 3
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. The featured dancer is Lauretta Summerscales (London Ballet). Throughout his evolution as a painter...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Attempted Art- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting of letter balloons
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rutger Hiemstra Attempted Art Oil on wood panel 53 x 125 cm Dutch artist Rutger Hiemstra (1975) understands the art of painting from observation. Still lifes, landscapes, portraits...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Daniela Gullotta, Abandoned Church, Urbex, 100x150cm, 2020
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. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents an ideal abandoned church...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Sandstone

IM BED - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
This work is framed. Unframed size: 70x80 cm, framed 75x85 cm Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - City Cat
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media (acrylic, gouache,oil) on canvas Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of E...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache

Relationship 4 - Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, Realism, Minimalistic Art
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Inner Nature 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women on African Fabric
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. “Your mind knows...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Aced It, Original Painting, Contemporary Portrait, Food art, Coffee and cards
Located in Deddington, GB
An unapologetic woman plays her ace card with the assured confidence of someone who takes her coffee strong and knows exactly what to do when life gives her lemons. ADDITIONAL INFOR...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Canvas, Acrylic

Large Painting of Chamonix Mont Blanc in France by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Large Original Painting of Chamonix Mont Blanc in France by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. European Series No.4. Art measures 48 x 36 inches Frame measures 53 x 41 ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Trash Venus" Pink Haired Woman In Black Lingerie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Trash Venus" is an original oil painting by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships in the pictured frame and measures 26"h x 22"w. Lauren Rinaldi (b. 1983, Brooklyn, NY) is an America...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Unique (African Allure) 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Portrait of Dave Winfield, American Major League Baseball Right Fielder
Located in Hudson, NY
Portrait of Dave Winfield Edward Avedisian 20 x 14 inches, acrylic on stretched canvas Armenian-American artist, Avedisian was best known for his work made in New York City during the 1960s: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. He was largely recognized for a series of Beach Ball paintings that emerged in the early 1960's and into the later 1960's the artist began painting larger horizontal paintings, featuring vertically intersecting beacon-like stripes that highlighted characteristics from both the Post-Painterly and Color Field movements. In this portrait, Avedisian using his signature use of color, combining bright rusty reds and oranges against a metallic green gold backdrop. A major work from Avedesian's color-stripe series was featured on the cover of Artforum's January 1969 issue (pictured here). Also pictured are photographs of the artist c. 1970 in his studio in New York City and catalog pages from Avedisian's inclusion in the American Painting Now Expo at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in Dec 1967 - Jan 1968. The exhibition, organized by art critic Alan Solomon, featured one of Avedisian's signature Beach Ball paintings alongside large works by Robert Motherwell and Jim Rosenquist. About the subject: Dave Winifield is American former Major League Baseball right fielder born in 1951 and who played for six teams (San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians) during his 22 year long career. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves. Winfield retired in 1996 and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, in his first year of eligibility. About the Artist: In the 1960’s, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract painting. Shown first at Ivan Karp and Dick Bellamy’s Hansa Gallery and then at Robert Elkon, Avedisian’s insouciant mix of pop playfulness, color field cool and high formalist style put his art in a unique, and at the time generously rewarded, position. Paintings made it onto the cover of Artforum, were purchased by all the major museums, were among the few abstract works shown as representative of America’s post-war achievement at Expo 67 in Montreal and comprised a cornerstone in histories of the period written by Barbara Rose, among others. The artist was largely influenced by his Color-Field predecessors, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Throughout the 1960's and into the mid 1970's the artist was celebrated in the Manhattan art scene, contributing to the Post-Painterly Abstraction movements with contemporaries Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Museum Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Denver Art Museum, Colorado Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas The Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase Los Angeles County Museum, California Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum *above description text is supported by Alexandra C. Anderson's article on Edward Avedesian in Artforum's January 1969 issue. NY Times Obituary, published Aug 23, 2007 by Roberta Smith: Mr. Avedisian was best known for his work in the 1960s: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. A frequent motif was a cluster of bright seedlike orbs corralled at the center of a vibrant monochrome field by larger rings of color, creating an image that could resemble a buoyant cross-section of some unknown fruit. Mr. Avedisian was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1936 and studied art at the Boston Museum School. By the late 1950s he was living in New York, part of a generation of promising young painters that included Frank Stella, Larry Poons and Darby Bannard. From 1958 to 1963 Mr. Avedisian had six solo shows in New York galleries, including two at the Robert Elkon Gallery, where he continued to show almost every year until 1975. By the early 1960s Mr. Avedisian was a rising star. During that decade, his work appeared on the cover of Artforum, in “The Responsive Eye” exhibition of Op Art at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere. In the mid-1970s Mr. Avedisian moved to Hudson and became less visible. His paintings soon began shifting toward representation; he took to calling his abstract paintings “a period style.” But he continued to be well served by his feeling for color, scale and surface. His landscapes described his surroundings in blunt, flat shapes and singing hues reminiscent of those of Marsden Hartley and Paula Modersohn...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Flowing Sound #10 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, blue flowers, wood, canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Flowing Sound #10 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil and ink on cotton canvas and carved wood, dimensions are...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

Bearch Series #118
Located in Park City, UT
"After painting for over 30 years, I am still fascinated by the alchemy & expression of paint. Primarily I am a studio painter working in oil on canvas. Oil paint is a very elastic m...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Alone & Cornered - Original Abstract Yellow Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

The Masque of Comus
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Jute, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel

"Peripheral Dream" by Jon Wassom, Mixed Media, Male Nude
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Wassom's "Peripheral Dream" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a male nude. This piece is unframed yet ready to hang. Jon Was...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - The Reading
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the Scho...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Malibu Barbie - Colorful Abstract Figurative Portrait Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by her background in fashion, artist Lindsey McCord creates vibrant portraits that encapsulate the confidence that comes with the fun of being stylish and chic. Her figures ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite

"The Wanderer", (2022) Original Oil Painting by Calvin Lai, Male Nude
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "The Wanderer" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tattooed male nude walking. Artist Bio: Calvin Lai's art is a mixture of medicine, medi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Summer Island - 2 - Oil Paint by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas by Elena Mardashova, 60x50 cm. Excellent condition.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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