Jorge Yances Figurative Paintings

Bellflower is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, gold and silver leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions ar...

A peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue and light yellow accented with teal blue, yellow and orange sculptural details along the lower part of the composition. Tall, grac...

Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintings that speak to the e...

Jon Wassom's "Igniting the Inner Flame" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts an a male nude in a contemplative pose. This piece is unf...

Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...

Sukanta Das : Sublime Love, Figurative, Mixed Media Size : 36 x 48 inches Sukanta Das says, “ I am primarily inspired by the human body and nature. I love to use subtle hues and ton...

"Because of Amani" is an elegant example of contemporary Abstract Expressionism by San Jose-based artist Helen Bellaver. This work has a subtle background with faded stripes in pale ...

"Populus: Shift in the Spectrum" is an unframed original mixed media work on board by Craig Alan, depicting a crowd of figures gathered into clusters that form a spherical shape in a...

Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images from the Tang Dynasty. In "Let Her Go", the foreground shows a modern female figure sitting upon the side of a boat which gives the impression she is wearing wings and about to take flight. Upon closer look, there are various scenes taking place around her in the water - warriors with knives drawn, a jeep in pursuit of some unseen enemy, a cauldron boiling over. Influence by the Renaissance Masters, Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Let Her Go oil on canvas 48h x 60w in 121.92h x 152.40w cm VWG011 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S. “When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening...

"Configuration Series 5," is a contemporary Abstract painting by San Jose based artist Helen Bellaver. In this work, Helen layers a medium onto her paper to create subtle texture, wh...

"Populus: Around the Corner" is an original mixed media work on board with a high gloss finish by Craig Alan, depicting miniature figures mingling around large structures. The stunni...

"Give love", mixed technique on paper, framed painting, by Silvia Calmejane. Spontaneous and instinctive, Silvia Calmejane's artistic gesture echoes the "art brut" avant-gardes whic...