House Figurative Paintings

Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...

End of Autumn in Bruges – Gruuthusebrug Van Der Smissen Leo Dendermonde 1900 – 1966 Bruges Belgian Painter Bruges School Signature: Signed bottom left and dated 1935 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 101,50 x 121 cm Biography: Van der Smissen Leo was born in Dendermonde on June 20, in 1900. He lived in Bruges, and he was a Belgian painter and one of important Bruges School artists. His brother Frans Van der Smissen (1894-1964) was a sculptor. Leo was a painter of town views, sturdy of trees, landscapes, church interiors, still lifes, marines, interiors, portraits, and some nudes. He acts as a colourist, who practices sobriety. His preference, woodland scenes, a genre in which he has climbed to a solid refinement, particularly specific are the depiction of the tree trunks. His works, brushed concisely and boldly, betray a strong hand that bends the colour ranges to his will and he can adapt to all kinds of subjects. Leo studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts (1913 – 1919) with master teacher and artist Flori Van Acker and won several first prizes there. He studied also at Ghent Academy of Fine Arts (1920 – 1921) with master teachers Godron and Karel Tremerie and later at Dendermonde Academy of Fine Arts (1923 – 1924). Initially strongly influenced by the style of Courtens and the Dendermonde School, under the guidance of painter Ferdinand Willaert he evolved towards to Luminism. In 1930 Leo was married and had three daughters, two children died in early age. Leo van der Smissen...

Acrylic on canvas Juliette Lamarca is a French artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Clamart, near Paris, France. After higher studies in applied arts, for ten years she create...

Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...

Acrylic on canvas Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore C...

Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...

Mario Reggio is a contemporary Roman painter with an extraordinary ability to interpret his hometown in an innovative and metaphysical way. While Mario Reggio’s favorite subject is h...

English School Lower Chedworth 20th Century Oil on board, signed lower right Image size: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (49.5 x 59.5 cm) Original frame In this painting, the winding countr...

Oil on canvas Lexi Caiqin or Ding Caiqin is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Nantong. Jiangsu in China. He was born in Daoxiang Village is a village built around...

A wonderful study of figures beside a lake with terraced houses in the background. With pen and ink detail. Signed. On watercolour paper.

Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Miller. 1877.

An abstracted view of the Art Institute of Chicago's Grand Staircase. The lone sculpture fictionally represents an armed officer pointing a gun at an absent figure. [b. 1977 – New York, NY ::: lives & works – New Haven, CT] CHRIS BARNARD received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Having previously held faculty positions at Denison University, Indiana University, and USC, Barnard is currently associate professor of art at Connecticut College in New London. Barnard’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and New Haven, among other locations, and can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. His work is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, where he and his partner live. artist statement In my work I focus on white supremacy’s relationship to the privileged spaces of my experiences, such as private art and educational institutions. Amidst widening gaps in wealth and opportunity, discussions about race, power, justice and representation—across visual culture broadly—seem more relevant than ever. In many of my compositions, which reference real sites, I have inserted fictional elements to raise questions about the allegiances and priorities of these institutions, as well as people—including myself—who have benefitted from, or continue to support them. The resulting works are representational, but through gestural passages and color and surface manipulation, I aim to suggest instability, corrosion and decay. In the end, I strive to make engaging paintings that suggest dissonance and ambivalence, that entice and challenge viewers, just as painting them does for me. These paintings are rooted in my contemplating Whiteness and emerge from wrestling with the politics of painting—the connections and gaps between painting and lived experience. They also reflect: a love of paint, the act of painting, and the power of the painted image; a regard for practitioners past and present, as well as those for whom practice has not been possible; and an admission of painting’s complicity with hegemonic power. As always, my process remains driven by questions. In this case, questions like: What role does painting play in the face of concrete social crises? How can my paintings respectfully incorporate¬—rather than exploit—relevant and thought-provoking content and imagery? What does it mean to think about racism, dehumanization, injustice, etc., and then to paint such pictures, and in particular as a straight, White man? These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and White Rage, by Carol Anderson...

An oil painting by Marc Dalessio. Painted en plein air at night. The setting appears to be a vast plaza lined with trees, and benches. A figurative statue centers the plaza. An illum...

Painted en plein air, in Sag Harbor, New York, in preparation for the popular 2016 exhibition, The Russian American Painting Alliance. Situated outside at the Breakwater Yacht Club...

You are viewing an original mixed media work by emerging American artist Anne Muntges featuring the mediums of graphite, and spray paint on wood panel Anne Muntges is an artist wh...

Acrylic on canvas Juliette Lamarca is a French artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Clamart, near Paris, France. After higher studies in applied arts, for ten years she create...

Acrylic on canvas Juliette Lamarca is a French artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Clamart, near Paris, France. After higher studies in applied arts, for ten years she create...

Acrylic on canvas Juliette Lamarca is a French artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Clamart, near Paris, France. After higher studies in applie...

Oil on canvas Keti Shapatava is a Georgian artist born in 1995 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was introduced to the world of art at Anastasia Virseladze Art Gymnasium ...

Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Stretched. Certificate of au...

Oil on linen

Oil on canvas

Painting by a contemporary artist Audrey Ushenko. Audrey Ushenko works in the genre of narrative realism. Her works are rich, complex figurative and still life paintings. They are s...

Medium: Painting Signature: Unsigned Marked on the back GM Photographic The Saturday Evening Post, August 16 1947, Page 89

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...

Contemporary figurative painting

Bo Bartlett Station, 2017 Gouache on paper 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches 38.7 x 57.2 cm Signed: Bo (lower right recto) Dated: Aug 31 2017 (lower left recto) -- Bo Bartlett is an American...

"Irina Miftahova" Landscape Oil Painting 20" x 47" inch by Evgeniya Buravleva Evgeniya Buravleva was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vy...

Heejung Cho is a mixed media artist born in Seoul, Korea, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in sculpture from Seoul National University and an MFA ...

"Stairways to the Stable Mind" is Pop Artist Mark Kostabi's homage to the great MC Escher's "Relativity". Signed and dated lower left and verso.

In "Ball Players," Chambers employs warm neutral tones to underscore the placidity of the rural environment. Additionally, the abstraction of the figures a...

In his "Immortality" series, Plusch explores how notions of beauty and deformity, eternal and momentary, and life and death intermingle and blur together. This work expresses how all...