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Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - Life

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - Life

By Kim Yoon Kyung

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - Ascension

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - Ascension

By Kim Yoon Kyung

Located in Paris, IDF

Mixed media on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - A Journey

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - A Journey

By Kim Yoon Kyung

Located in Paris, IDF

Mixed media on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - The Dog

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Yoon Kyung - The Dog

By Kim Yoon Kyung

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Alaskan Pollock II"
"Alaskan Pollock II"

"Alaskan Pollock II"

Located in Detroit, MI

Kim Kyung (in Hanja, 金耕, in Hangul 김경) was born in South Korea, his real name, under the current Revised Romanization was Kim Gyeong-Eun (in Hanja 金萬斗, in Hangul 김경은).

Category

1940s Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Recent Sales

Bloom

Hee Kyung Kim Bloom, 2015

Unavailable

H 31.89 in W 31.89 in D 3.55 in

Bloom

Located in Seoul, SO

Hee Kyung Kim portrays the moment of life, the breath of nature, and the moments of self-unification with 'Hanji paper', and transmits the traces of the 'Bloom' through her works.

Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mulberry Paper

Bloom

Hee Kyung Kim Bloom

Unavailable

H 121 in W 121 in

Bloom

Located in Seoul, SO

Hee Kyung Kim portrays the moment of life, the breath of nature, and the moments of self-unification with 'Hanji paper', and transmits the traces of the 'Bloom' through her works.

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mulberry Paper

Bloom

Hee Kyung Kim Bloom, 2019

Unavailable

H 31.89 in W 31.89 in

Bloom

Located in Seoul, SO

Hee Kyung Kim portrays the moment of life, the breath of nature, and the moments of self-unification with 'Hanji paper', and transmits the traces of the 'Bloom' through her works.

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mulberry Paper

Orange Box in Bag

Kyung Tae KimOrange Box in Bag, 2023

Unavailable

H 72 in W 48 in

Orange Box in Bag

Located in New York, NY

Memento Vivere - what one wants ‘Memento Mori’, a symbolic trope, serves as a reminder of the inevitability of death. Latin for “remember you must die", the phrase insinuates that w...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Kyung Kim "Alsakan Pollack" Framed Oil Painting
Kyung Kim "Alsakan Pollack" Framed Oil Painting

Kyung Kim "Alsakan Pollack" Framed Oil Painting

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Kyung Kim "Alaskan Pollock" c.1940, Korea. The oil on canvas painting depicts four different species of fish that can be found in South Korea.

Category

Mid-20th Century Korean Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Mid-Century Modern Painting of Sun and Birds by Korean Artist Kyung Kim
Mid-Century Modern Painting of Sun and Birds by Korean Artist Kyung Kim

Mid-Century Modern Painting of Sun and Birds by Korean Artist Kyung Kim

Located in Atlanta, GA

Oil on canvas by South Korean artist Kyung Kim. Signed in the left bottom corner. Very good condition.

Category

Mid-20th Century South Korean Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens

Materials

Canvas

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A Close Look at Contemporary Art

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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Finding the Right Figurative-paintings for You

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.

Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.