Joan Barber Blue Ledge Oil On Canvas
By Joan Barber
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Florida Girl in Red Stockings Oil on Linen
By Joan Barber
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Red Leaves Oil on Linen
By Joan Barber
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Girl In The Red Robe
By Joan Barber
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Girl on Pedestal
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Strategies
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Linen, Oil
Perch
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
Weight of Fire
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
Running the Keys
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
Girl in Red
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
Girl at Red Wall
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
Black and White
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
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H 48 in W 36 in D 2 in
Mid-Century Michael Russo "Nude Before Mirror" Abstract Mixed-Media Painting
By Michael Russo
Located in Miami, FL
A Mid-Century abstract modern mixed painting media titled "Nude Before a Mirror" by the American artist Michael Russo (1908-1998). A sculptor and artist, Russo was educated...
Wood, Masonite, Paper
Indulgence
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
River Dance
By Joan Barber
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
She has studied with Louie Bunce, Michael Russo, George Johanson. Barber enjoys a national reputation for her figurative work but also paints compelling landscapes and abstracts.
Canvas, Oil
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.
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