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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Style: Contemporary
"The Meeting 29" Ink Transfer and Pastel Architectural Figure by Seth Clark
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "The Meeting 29" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of ink transfer, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Time Travel
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
In my dream, I saw the old city gate from sixty years ago. It was tall and majestic, carrying the vicissitudes of history, and looked particularly beautiful again...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Faded sunflowers - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape painting of Flowers
By Erik Zwaga
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik Zwaga
Faded sunflowers
80 x 100 cm (Framed, included in price 84 x 104 cm)
The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - Noir
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - At the Pub
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orbit
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$14,800
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Oncoming Rain
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse
Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusudan Zviadadze - Dogs
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Rusudan Zviadadze is a Georgian artist born in 1969 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a painter with a unique artistic mentality and style who was introd...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Between Time
Located in Zofingen, AG
She sits as if pausing the very moment, wrapped in a white sweater against the ocher fresco. Her blue silhouette echoes the memory of the Inspired by Matisse series, yet her gaze dri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - The Tramps
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
With Warmer Suns or Softer Gales
Located in Bozeman, MT
"In my paintings I take on the role of poet-painter, creating sentimental and idealized landscapes that are devoid of any figures or formal devices traditionally used to tell a story...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memory V – Izu’s Pi by Lumi Mizutani - Japanese painting, trees, nature, flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Memory V – Izu’s Pine is a unique diptych painting by contemporary artist Lumi Mizutani. The painting is made with Japanese pigments, India ink and gold leaves on paper mounted on wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Montana Flora and Fauna
Located in Bozeman, MT
Kirstyn Wright is a wildlife and Western artist focusing on Texas and Southwestern imagery. She grew up an hour northwest of Fort Worth in the ranching and rodeo community of Wise Co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joanne in Profile - Photorealist Oil Painting on Oval Panel of Woman in Profile
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a painting in realistic detail of a woman in profile using subtle tones. The oval shaped panel is framed in a custom frame with classic details.
Matthew Cook...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cake Topper
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful woman in a bathing suit on a strawberry short cake. Vibrant colors, whimsical.
About The Artist
Elise Remender’s love of painting began at an early age as she created...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$12,500
Georgian Contemporary Art by Mikheil Arbolishvili - Spring
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Mikheil Arbolishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Mikheil grew up immersed in the vibrant world of art, being part of a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Frank Shifreen 'Family 2'
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Family 2
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mage Love Flower - Surreal Symbolism in Highly Detailed Original Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Black Pride 7 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The piece is an illustration of the beauty and strength of an African woman.
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ancestral Memories - Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Cannes La Croisette
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Fantasie
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Gaby Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Ile D`oleron - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Couple at the Park - Paint by Alessio Paternesi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel realized by Alessio Paternesi (1937-2023).
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Evening Red - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Sunset Heath Landscape Painting
By Eric Schutte
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Eric Schutte
Evening Red
60 x 80 cm Acryl on canvas
This luminous Dutch Heath landscape at sunset is an original work by contemporary Dutch artist Eric Schutte, painted en plein air...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Heaven - figurative, contemporary, dystopian, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary acrylic painting is a graffiti-style portrait by John Scott.
The raw, dark and powerful imagery of multimedia artist John Scott had a big impact on Canadian art. T...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"The Meeting 20"
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "The Meeting 20" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of ink transfer, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Korean Contemporary Art by Ahn Sung Kyu - Dawn of Dokdo
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ahn Sung Kyu is a Korean artist born in 1966 who lives and works in Suwon, South Korea. Sung-Kyu is an artist who has intensively focused o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
State of Mind 13 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Our mindsets dictate our product and output.
The mind presides over our endeavors
The Power of mindsets should be trained and nurtured towards achieving the best and making great i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Mis en Scene", Oil on canvas, surreal portrait master
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Frank Shifreen 'Couple'
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Couple
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and beau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Narvik No. 4 by Calo Carratalá - Landscape painting, snowy mountain, winter
Located in Paris, FR
Narvik No. 4 is a unique oil on wood painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in).
The artwork is signed and comes with a certi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Korean Contemporary Art by Lee Yu Min - Jeju 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on wooden panel
Lee Yu Min is a Korean artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Daejeon, South Korea. She is specialized in Korean painting, completing her doctoral studi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Brutalist Perspective Architecture, Green and Pink Industrial Building Shapes
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Nacho Reina is a formidable example of the interplay between form and color forms as the central axis of his work, where he starts from architectural shape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Study for Regents Park - contemporary impressionism London oil painting
Located in London, GB
Based in his homeland of Australia, David has painted extensively throughout his travels in the United States and the UK, where he is regularly represented by select commercial galle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Maya Abashidze - Treasure
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Maya Abashidze is Georgian artist born in 1984 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from the Tbilisi State Art Academy in 2010. From May-Jun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Frank Shifreen 'The Family 3'
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
The Prophet
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Quiet Soul - Framed Original Figurative Abstract Realism Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Swimmers I, Maria Filopoulou, Greek, Water, Natural World, Expansive, Lagoon
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Water & Light are two main components that make the Greek landscape unique and irresistible. Greek painter Maria Filopoulou takes up these two clichés unashamedly and transforms thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
At The Farm
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chaise 19, Minimalist, Pop Art, painting, Figurative, Poolside, Male
Located in Riverdale, NY
Chaise #19 by California artist Jeffrey Palladini is a minimalist figurative painting featuring a male figure. It is Oil and Charcoal on Wood Panel. It is 12x48. With the wood fram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Wood Panel
Niche (opposition)
Located in Bozeman, MT
His recent work explores human behavior from primitive perspective. That is, the relationship between human being and nature, survival and play, as subjects that refer to other secon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Chant des Saisons V
Located in Miami, FL
Observing and understanding the world around us are the foundations of her reflections.
Her approach to the world of Art has been largely influenced by the diversity of media
underwr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
L’homme de compassion
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 73x60 cm
Frame size: 79x66x5 cm
Signed by the artist, titled at the verso.
Free shipment worldwide.
Bengt Lindström was a big man from the central parts of the Norr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Metamorphosis" Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Metamorphosis" Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
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Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
500 Pesos Frida Kahlo
By Houben R.T.
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Houben, R.T.
Title: 500 Pesos Frida Kahlo
Series: Unique
Date: 2020
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 60" x 48"
Signature: Unsigned
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Hazy Bluebell Meadows, Lucy Moore, Original painting, Contemporary art
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
Hazy Bluebell Meadows by Lucy Moore [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - Cheverny's Dogs
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Diptych - signed on bottom right
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter with international exposure. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she creates works that explo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Biotope - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Sunset Polder Landscape Painting
By Eric Schutte
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Eric Schutte
Biotope
60 x 80 cm Acryl on canvas
This luminous Dutch polder landscape at sunset is an original work by contemporary Dutch artist Eric Schutte, painted en plein air di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Aenigma Machina
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Cluster
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with White Jug - Painting by Lea Monetti - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Egg tempera on rice paper glued on board realized by Lea Monetti in 1990s.
Hand signed and titled.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Liu Guoyi - Abstract - Superstring Series No. 16
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
United (large original textured painting on canvas)
By Evelyn Walg
Located in Aventura, FL
Original textured acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front and titled on verso by Evelyn Walg. Canvas size: 36 x 36 x 1 inches (stretched).
Artwork is in excellent conditi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Beauty Spring Woman - Acrylic and 3D Painting on Canvas Biophilic Design 24x24"
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beauty Spring Woman - Acrylic and 3D Painting on Canvas + Artificial Boxwood Hedge Baby Green Leaves Foliage Biophilic design 24 x 24"
Figurat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
When the Breeze carries you - B.Schaumann - Contemporary interior oil Painting
Located in DE
Barber Schaumann is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant, abstract interpretations of the female form. Her work combines bold colors with modern, geometric shapes, blending el...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mummies - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Modernism, Seascape
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 c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ceiling Painting
Located in New York, NY
Biff Elrod's use of color and implied movement in the Movement into Light from The Ceiling Paintings Exhibition provided a visual experience of contemporary life.
Ceiling Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"My Quad Diamond Hearts" Contemporary Oil Painting with Diamond Dust on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Oil, Mixed Media
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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.
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