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Expressionist Nude Paintings

EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Style: Expressionist
Huge 20th Century French Oil on Canvas - Adam & Eve Grey Black & White Oval
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Adam & Eve French School, late 20th century oil painting on canvas, 140c x 113cm provenance: private collection, Paris Striking and bold portrayal of these two nude lovers, entwine...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mushroom Woman, colorful deep blue figurative mushroom hat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

1970'S HUGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - NUDE LADY STILL LIFE COMPOSITION
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1970's, signed lower right Title: Still Life with Nude; beautiful range of colors. Medium: very thick impasto oil painting on canvas, unframe...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

To Forge Peace , Wild Woman Series, colorful powerful nude female figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of a powerful woman encouraging us to go forge new pathways to peace. This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. ...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Great old age" nude portrait china ink 50x65cm on paper oak frame 2008
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
nude portrait "Great old age" china ink 50x65cm on paper dignity and fragility, pathetic and admirable delivered in oak and glass frame
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Early 2000s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Ink

Sarita's Twist, Nude Painting, Life Painting, Figurative Art, Mute Colourful Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sarita’s Twist by Judith Brenner [2022] original mixed media on paper Image size: H:84.1 cm x W:59.4 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:84.1 cm x W:59.4 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unfra...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

"Yellow odalisque" cm. 15 x 10 1925
Located in Torino, IT
odalisque, yellow, orient Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990) Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize...
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1920s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

'Leaving the Garden of Eden', Mid-century American Expressionist, Adam and Eve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'John T Stephens' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally inscribed, verso, with title, 'Leaving the Garden of Eden' and signed. Paper dime...
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1960s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Laid Paper

'Seated Nude', California Fauve Interior Scene, San Francisco Art Institute
By Myra Dorn Eastman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Myra Dorn' for Myra Dorn Eastman (American, born 1953) and dated 1994. A Large and dynamic Expressionist figural painting of a young woman, shown nude and seated on a chair in an interior beside a vase of red flowers Myra Dorn Eastman graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1977 and from the San Francisco Art Institute...
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1990s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

"Valery" - Horizontal indoor female nude in yellow ochre and white.
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Untitled. Cardboard, tempera. 35.5x27.5cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
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1970s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

To Be Discovers, from the Wild Woman Series, colorful discoverer exploring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of the discoverer expanding the universe. This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. Watercolor, mixed media, u...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Multicolor Abstracted Reclining Nude Figure Drawing
By Stewart Goldman
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and dynamic abstracted nude figure drawing, depicted with expressive line and color by Stewart Goldman (American, b. 1936). Signed "S. Goldman" and dated "82" lower right. "Steward Goldman," dated "1982" and titled "Figure Drawing #2" on verso. Presented in a metal frame. Image size, 29.5"H x 22"W. Exhibited:Chamber Paintings and Other New Work - Toni Birckhead Gallery - Cincinnati, Ohio EDUCATION Philadelphia College of Art - 1955-58, 1960-62, BFA in Painting TEACHING EXPERIENCE Art Academy of Cincinnati –September 1968-August 2001 –Retired PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Cincinnati Art Museum Board of Trustees Member– 2013-2016 Advisory Committee- Weston Art Gallery Previous Service Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Board of Trustees Member Gamble-Nippert YMCA - Committee of Management Member GRANTS and AWARDS Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Working Spaces” Munich, Germany -2001 Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Tales of Slavery and Deliverance”, Munich, Germany-1999 Kulturreferat, Munich, Germany Grant-Residency, Villa Waldberta-Feldafing, Germany-1997 Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant-To create installation-“The Cherubs of Theresienstadt”-1994 Ohio Arts Council Grant-To curate exhibition and travel “Cincinnati Artists Works on Paper” Kharkiv Art Museum, 1993 Cincinnati Bell Mural Commission-1990 Cincinnati Summerfair Fellowship-1988 Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award, Outstanding Individual Artist-1988 RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2013 Curator- “Seeing Opera” Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio 2013 Book publication, My Mother’s Eyes, Italian translated edition 2011 Curator - exhibition for Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010 Created print at invitation for Cincinnati Art Museum portfolio commemorating Jim Dine 2007 Book Publication, My Mother’s Eyes, German Translated edition 2005 Commencement Address, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH Colloquia, College of Applied Science, Cincinnati, Ohio Portfolio Presentation, 92 Street Y, New York, NY 2004 Book Publication, My Mother’s Eyes. Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Mythic Macrocosm - Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, ILL 2015 Stewart Goldman: Nuances - Philip M. Meyers, Jr., Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio 2009 Stewart Goldman Presence through Absence - Cincinnati Art Museum – Cincinnati, Ohio 2008 Then and Now- Paintings and Tape drawings – Springfield Museum of Art- 2006 Old Square/New Square: Paintings and Wall Drawings-Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts 2005 Paintings-Cincinnati Art Galleries...
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1980s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Above the dam. 1990. Cardboard, tempera. 80x100cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
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1990s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

After the Bath Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative abstract painting by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection of his works. Eggleston is a San Francisco Abstract Expressionist...
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1990s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Odalisque yellow" Oil , cm. 40 x 50 1937 free shipping
Located in Torino, IT
Odalisque ,yellow,orange, orient Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990) Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize La Coupole de Montparnasse (from Kisling to Pascin, from Derain to Vlaminck). He is considered one of most representative exponents of the Turin’s artistic scene in the ‘30s-‘40s, close to the Gruppo dei Sei. His works can be found in the following museums: Turin, Modern Art Gallery...
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1930s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red Ophelia, colorful abstract female nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An expressionist figurative oil painting integrating abstracted form and color. The title suggests the classic Shakespearean character from Hamlet and the symbolism of beauty, madnes...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

February Figure, female nude, greys earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick over ink on paper. Neutral limited color, expressionist female nude with active brush strokes.
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Oil

UmmHummm, colorful spiritual energetic mystical figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

A Quiet Moment, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This is part of my new series of raw and emotive paintings that keep it simple but will make you feel something. They are painted on heavy duty fine art paper and look fantastic when matted and framed. This particular painting shows two nude people...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

" Orange Nude "Oil cm. 25 x 60 1952
Located in Torino, IT
Italy,Italian Painter,Women,Nude,Orange,Red ,1952 Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical a...
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1950s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Adjusting the Radar, powerful image of trying to get it right, bold color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists, meditation and yoga references. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sen...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

American Modernist Oil Painting Gestural Landscape WPA Artist Group of 10
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Late 20th Century Expressionist Painting, Paradise
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on paper by the French artist Armand Avril. Signed and dated bottom left. The painting is an interesting thematic work by Avril inspired by a club bar in Lyon ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Acrylic, Oil

In The Room #4 by Katya Tsareva - Expressionist painting, oil on canvas, 2021
Located in Basel, BS
The Room #4 is the 4th work in "In The Room" series by contemporary artist Katya Tsareva. In this series the artist continues to analyze the difficult re...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulsi Spirit, embodying the magical herb of India with iridescent pigments
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Interspecies Communication, colorful mythological swirling pattern orange tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists and metalic paints and old pastels. For Octopus and cephalopod fans. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exu...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

After Icarus, ghostly floating figure, black w orange, blue nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stringer, colorful green figurative abstraction
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Hot Flash, figure, red colors, bright swirling patterns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

In Good Hands, swirling colorful spiritual abstracted goddess figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Sweet Energy, colorful red swirling abstract mystical mixed media
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Horned and Read, colorful mythological figure, spiritual, blue ground
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Man with crossed arms II, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: "Man with crossed arms II" Artist: Derek Overfield Above is a semi-abstract figurative work done from life. The work is completed using a subtractive/additive method utili...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

"Rhonda" - Vertical expressionist turquoise landscape with female nude.
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series Bath NO.5
Located in Beijing, CN
Artist Biography Zhang Chunyang was born in 1975 in Changchun, Jilin. She earned her B.F.A at Jilin University of Arts in 1999, and studied at Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing ...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series Bath NO.1
Located in Beijing, CN
Artist Biography Zhang Chunyang was born in 1975 in Changchun, Jilin. She earned her B.F.A at Jilin University of Arts in 1999, and studied at Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing ...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Hanging Woman, colorful, yoga reference, figure w abstract patterns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

How To Listen, colorful spiritual figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and general well being. This work is so important as our society gets more disembodied and broken, we need to come home to our bodies and realize the sacredness of ourselves and every being on the planet. Janet has both shown and taught with Alex Grey...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Naked, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series "Naked", oil on thick paper. 30 x 40 cm, 2019. In some works, when the artist is able at creating the illusion of soft shadows, nuances of color...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

"Aquarius" Oil Painting 31.5" x 51" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aquarius" Oil Painting 31.5" x 51" inch by Sergey Dolmatov Year: 2014
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Wise Virgin" Watercolor, Mixed Media, Nude Female, Metaphysical, Mystical
Located in Detroit, MI
"Wise Virgin" is part of a series of paintings and sculptures Artis Lane completed in which she explores the metaphysical and spiritual dimensions of humans as they reach toward a mo...
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1980s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

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