Gazing at the Stars
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Gazing at Stars is an original painting by Esther Oyeyemi. Esther created Gazing at the Stars with Acrylic on a primed 36W by 36H canvas Esther Oyeyemi in Gazing at the Stars shows ...
Canvas, Acrylic
A World in Her Hand - Contemporary Figurative Childhood Painting
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Boston, MA
A World in Her Hand 48.0 x 48.0 x 1.5, 3.0 lbs Acrylic on canvas Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "'A World in Her Hand' beautifully captures the essence of a little g...
Acrylic
$1,400
Tapestry of Beauty (Agbeke) 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,400
Tapestry of Beauty (Anike) 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$750
Beneath The Sky, Among The Stalks 1 -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Farm
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$750
Beneath The Sky, Among The Stalks 2 -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Farm
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,250
My Beloved Business 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Women, Sheep Herds
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$950
Budding Bond - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Twins, Nature
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,400
Tapestry of Beauty (Arike) 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,400
Tapestry of Beauty (Asake) 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,250
My Beloved Business -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Animal, Herds Women
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary artist who bridges personal memory a...
Canvas, Acrylic
Supplications I - Contemporary Figurative Spiritual Painting
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Boston, MA
Whether through abstract symbolism or intricate representations." About the Artist: Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive multidisciplinary contemporary female artist hails from Ibadan Oy...
Acrylic
Budding Bonds - Contemporary Figurative Childhood Painting
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Boston, MA
The artwork encapsulates a moment of unity and discovery as the two girls bond over the delicate beauty of the flowers they hold." About the Artist: Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive ...
Acrylic
Pillow Play
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
But we often forget this because of worries and anxiety We need to remember to play. About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive contemporary female artist who hails from Ibadan Oy...
Canvas, Acrylic
Queen (Series I)
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Esther Oyeyemi is a distinctive contemporary female artist who hails from Ibadan Oyo State Nigeria ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Queen (Series II)
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Canvas, Acrylic
You are Me
By Esther Oyeyemi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Some people are short, and others are tall, Yet you are reflections of them all! The great big stars that are in the sky, Have the same twinkle that's in your eyes! Not everyone know...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,500
H 36 in W 36 in D 1 in
Orelisa - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
By Wasiu Sunday Hassan
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,450
H 24 in W 18 in D 1 in
Life Journey 2 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Figurative, Realism
By Eyitayo Alagbe
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About the Artist Joy Eyitayo...
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,500
H 30 in W 24 in D 1 in
Beauty in the Eyes of Beholder -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait
By Wasiu Sunday Hassan
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$3,250
H 36 in W 48 in D 1 in
Style and Confidence - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women
By Taiwo Odejinmi
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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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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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The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.
Manhattan's Acquavella Galleries is showing a group of the artist's monumental works that have never been seen together.
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.