Hanna Gasiorowska

Hanna Gąsiorowska is a Polish painter born in 1986. She graduated from the Art High School in Zielona Góra in 2006 and the graphic designing degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2012. Gąsiorowska's works were exhibited, among others in Warsaw and at “Life is a fairytale” exhibition in Sopot in 2014. He participates in numerous undertakings promoting young artists like the 23rd National Review of Young Paintings in Legnica and II Young Art Auction in Katowice. She also was the finalist of the art competition organized by the Ombudsman for Children for the poster There are no children, there are people in 2012.

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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