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Dance Under the Moon - Dancing Figures Reminiscent of Matisse, Red and Blue
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Gian Berto Vanni's Dance Under the Moon is a 39" x 68" inches figurative painting representing dancing figures. The primary colors are red, blue, and white. The dancing figures are d...
Category
2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dialogue Within Oneself - Surrealist Painting, Silhouette Female Figure, White
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Dialogue Within Oneself is a 46 x 36-inch abstract surrealist oil painting on canvas. The painting has a simple gallery display frame in natural wood with a black reveal. The primary...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Medusa - Greek Mythology, Abstract Versus Figurative Oil Painting, Earth Color
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Medusa is a 50 x 40-inch figurative oil painting on canvas. The primary colors are earth tones, salmon, and blue. It represents the Greek mythological figure of Medusa.
Two of Vanni'...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance of Shiva - Hindu God Shiva, Figurative and Abstract Oil Painting, Brown
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Gian Berto Vanni's "Dance of Shiva" is a 68 x 36-inch figurative versus abstract oil painting on canvas. The painting has a simple gallery display frame in natural wood with a black reveal. It represents Shiva, one of the principal deities of Hinduism. The figure of Shiva slowly fades into an abstraction. The outcome is a powerful composition between a fiery warrior and a magic tree with an explosive bark. The beautiful interplay between different shades of brown adds a unique austerity and elegance to the artwork. The figure is an homage to the Dancing Shiva...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spring Break Afternoon #2 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas, in Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Afternoon #2 is a 60 x 48-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue, with an orange accent. The image is playful, with hundreds of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Return Voyage #3 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas, Yellow.
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Return Voyage #3 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The silhouette of a woman stands inside a series of yellow buys, surr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sophisticated Lady on a Walk - Woman Walking a Red Balloon, Oil Paint, Geometry
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Sophisticated Lady on a Walk is a 40 x 30-inch figurative surrealist oil painting on canvas. Red, white, and green are the primary colors. The paint...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Eclipse - Painting with Female Figures and Sun Eclipse
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Eclipse is a 56 x 72-inch surrealist figurative oil painting. It is signed in the front lower right corner. The primary colors are brown and blue. Silhouettes of nude female figures ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Under the Skin - Nude Female Figures, Caryatids, Oil Painting in Brown Colors
By Gian Berto Vanni
Located in New York, NY
This figurative surrealist oil painting on canvas measures 52 x 64-inch. The primary colors are earth tones, with accents of red and blue. The bodies of four female nudes, sitting in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Untitled - Abstract Fresco on Board, in Oil Paint & Pencil, Neutral Tones
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Untitled is a 20 x 23-inch fresco on board. It oscillates between figuration and abstraction. This small work has the feeling of an ancient fresco where the imager...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Pencil, Oil
I Swallowed a Gold Fish - Surrealist Figurative Painting with Yellow and Green
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's I Swallowed a Gold Fish is a 9 x 12 inches surrealist oil painting representing a dog, a duck and a gun. The main colors are a bright orange, and green. The surface is ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
International Farmer - Surrealist Figurative Painting with Blue Colors
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's International Farmer is a 9 x 12 inches surrealist oil painting. The main color is blue. Animals simply outlined by a black and white mark are recognizable in the backg...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Last Time I Saw It - Surrealist Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's The Last Time I Saw It is a 16 x 11-inch surrealist oil painting. The primary colors are black and red. The canvas surface has a thick impasto of paint, made with plant-based pigments that Jaru collects during his long exploratory trips through India. The imagery brings a surrealist human figure, with all the body features exaggerated as if in a caricature.
NY-born Parris Jaru comes from a Jamaican, Blackfoot Nation, and Arawak Nation background from both his parents. His work is informed by the vivid colors and imagery experienced in his childhood years spent in the coastal town of St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His exploratory journeys in India enriched his work with a sensibility to natural plant-based pigments that he grinds with oils for his paintings.
In his Brooklyn studio, Jaru brings all these cultural inspirations together. His entire body of work is informed by an intentional childlike, faux-naïve style, constantly shifting between figurative and abstraction. Even though at times, Jaru has been working on somber and entirely figure-free paintings, most of his work is defined by poignantly colored and playful surrealistic figures. Jaru often draws his figures with a continuous line emerging from a thick impasto of paint made with powders of Sea Algae, Hibiscus, Gymnema Sylvestre, and Turmeric.
Related keywords: Caribbean Artist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boundary - Figurative Fresco on Board, in Oil Paint & Pencil, Red Boundary
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Boundary is a 23 x 13-inch fresco on board. Even though the image is figurative, Kitterle plays with elements that make it hard to understand if we are looking to ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Pencil
Ghost Abbey - Figurative Fresco on Board with Architectural Image
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Ghost Abbey is a 23 x 13-inch fresco on board. The image is very mysterious. A white arch frames an architectural structure, the abbey, overlooking a canyon, and w...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil
Gun Control - Surrealist Yellow and Black Painting of a Duck, Dog, and Gun
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's Gun Control is a 9 x 12-inch surrealist oil painting representing a dog, a duck, and a gun. The primary colors are bright orange and black. A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Place to Hide - Surrealist Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's A Place to Hide is a 9 x 12 inches oil painting representing surrealist animals. The primary color is a bright yellow and blue. A glittering paint defines the surface of the canvas. Jaru creates colors from plant-based pigments that Jaru collects during his long exploratory trips through India. The imagery is very playful, presenting surrealist animals drawn with the simplification of forms of some faux-naive art and some graffiti and street artworks.
NY-born Parris Jaru comes from a Jamaican, Blackfoot Nation, and Arawak Nation background from both his parents. His work is informed by the vivid colors and imagery experienced in his childhood years spent in the coastal town of St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His exploratory journeys in India enriched his work with a sensibility to natural plant-based pigments that he grinds with oils for his paintings.
In his Brooklyn studio, Jaru brings all these cultural inspirations together. His entire body of work is informed by an intentional childlike, faux-naïve style, constantly shifting between figurative and abstraction. Even though at times, Jaru has been working on somber and entirely figure-free paintings, most of his work is defined by poignantly colored and playful surrealistic figures. Jaru often draws his figures with a continuous line emerging from a thick impasto of paint made with powders of Sea Algae, Hibiscus, Gymnema Sylvestre, and Turmeric.
Related keywords: Caribbean Artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
His and Her's - Expressionist Figurative Painting of an African American Couple
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's His and Her's is a 40 x 36 inches oil painting representing an African American young couple. The surface is defined by a thick impasto of paint, made with plant based pigments that Jaru collects himself during his long exploratory trips through India. Parris was born in NY and grew up in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, until he was ten years old. Partly Jamaican and Blackfoot Indian...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
Flat Space - Abstract Fresco on Board
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Flat Space is a 30 x 22-inch fresco on board. The artist writes "Flat Space is a play with colors of the same chromatic properties and how they interact". Kitterle...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil
Arch and Pole - Square Figurative Painting with Earth Colors
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Arch and Pole is a 11.8 x 12-inch ink, oil, and pencil painting on board. It oscillates between figuration and abstraction, in a tridimensional space alternating b...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board, Oil, Pencil
Spring Break #5 - Collage Painting on College Spring Brake with Yellow Buoys.
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Meet-up #1 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with many figures in colorful suits floa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Times #1 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas. Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ Spring Break Weekend #1 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The main colors are yellow and blue. The image is very playful, with many figures in c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Return Voyage #2 - Collage on Canvas with Bright Blue and Yellow Colors .
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Return Voyage #2 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with two figures in colorful red and pink suits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Afternoon #3 - Allegorical Painting on Canvas. Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Afternoon #3 is a 34 x 46-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with hundreds of yellow buys floating on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Morning #2 - Allegorical Figurative Painting, Red, Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ Spring Break Morning #2 is a 60 x 48-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The main colors are red, yellow and blue. The image is very playful, with a figure in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Afternoon #2 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas. Red, Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Afternoon #2 is a 60 x 48-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with human figures in colorful suits flo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Morning Study #1 - Acrylic on Canvas. Red, Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Morning Study #1 is a 20 x 16-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spring Break Morning #1 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas. Red, Yellow, and Blue
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Morning #1 is a 60 x 48-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit floating inside a yellow buy. The work is part of the very recent Spring Break series. The artist writes, "Spring break, I was thinking about some of the highlights of my life. Spring break brings me back
to my college Years, a time that offered endless possibilities. It was the first time I saw myself as a participant in the American dream and not just an observer".
Francks F. Deceus was born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, moving to NY when he was nine years old, where he has been living and creating ever since. Throughout his career, Francks has developed a unique modernist style where figures distilled to their pure features are layered in an abstract world evocative of our modern society.
His work relates to artists like Norman Lewis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mumbo Jumbo #5 - Figurative Painting with Red, Pink, and Green Colors
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ Mumbo Jumbo #5 is part of the Mumbo Jumbo series the artist has been working on since 2019.
The artist writes “As a Haitian immigrant while...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Offering - Painting with Waterfall and Dongli Flowers, in Light Blue
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Night Blooms is a 48 x 40-inch fresco painting on a panel. The subject is a still life, with a vase of flowers on a table lit by a luminous source from the right. Kitterle portrayed ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Pigment, Wood Panel
Night Blooms - Night Still Life of Flowers in a Vase
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Night Blooms is a 48 x 40-inch fresco painting on panel. The subject is a still life, with a vase of flowers on a table lit by a luminous source from the right. It is portrayed in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Plaster, Pigment
Mumbo Jumbo BK#11 - Ironic Figurative Painting with Pink and Blue Colors
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ “Mumbo Jumbo BK#11” is a 20 x 16 inch acrylic paint, color pencil, and collage painting on canvas. The main colors are pink, blue and orang...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Harlem 125 - Work on Paper Depicting the New York City Harlem Neighborhood
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's Harlem 125 is a 18 x 24 inches mixed media work . The medium is acrylic and silkscreen on paper. It depicts an African American couple ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Hero - African American Baseball Player, Boxer, Soldier, and Businessman
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's "Hero" is a 24 x 48 inches mixed media work on canvas with collage. The work is partitioned in two distinct images. On the left side the artist depicted a baseball player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
The Valley of Dancers - Expressionist Figurative Painting in Black and Blue
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's The Valley of Dancers is a 9.5 x 8 inches expressionist oil painting. The main colors are black and blue. Whereas a flying black bird is clearly recognizable, the rest ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Head Full of Air - Surrealist Blue Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's Head Full of Air is a 9 x 8 inches surrealist oil painting. The main color is blue. A surrealist representation of a human face can be recognized. The surface is define...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Octopus Huggs - Surrealist Blue and Yellow Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's Octopus Huggs is a 8 x 9 inches surrealist oil painting. The main colors are blue and yellow. The artist created a surrealist representation of a human face defined by ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Other Mask - Surrealist Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's The Other Mask is a 12 x 9 inches surrealist oil painting. The main color is blue. A surrealist representation of a human face can be recognized. The surface is defined...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ambushed in Africa - Expressionist Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's Ambushed in Africa is a 26 x 36 inches expressionist figurative oil paint representing a young African man. The surface is defined by a thick impasto of paint, made wit...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
Mumbo Jumbo BK#1 - Ironic Figurative Painting with Pink and Blue Colors
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ “Mumbo Jumbo BK#1” is a 20 x 16 inch acrylic paint, color pencil, and collage painting on canvas. The main colors are pink, blue and red. The image is very playful, showing a man dressed as a superhero standing next to an entangled fire hose. The title “Mumbo Jumbo, is inspired by Ishmael Reed’s book under the same titled, where he attempted to capsulate the complexities of the African American experience. For Deceus is about capturing the complexity of his experience as an immigrant from Haiti back in the 1970s. A series of very colorful and playful works, focusing on the adventures of one figure named “Cappy”. The name is derived from Deceus family home town, Cap Haitien. Cappy is Deceus alter-ego; The images are intentionally drawn in the vein of comic strips with Cappy as the superhero. He goes out in the world and has to solve the kind of frightening experiences Deceus knew about as a Haitian immigrant, which in the paintings are ironically represented by the hose/snake snarling Cappy.
Stylistically Deceus work incorporates many of the aesthetic forms of artists like Norman Lewis and Howardena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
Mumbo Jumbo NYC#10 - Ironic Figurative Painting with Orange, and Blue Colors
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus’ “Mumbo Jumbo NYC#10” is a 30 x 24 inch acrylic paint, color pencil, and collage painting on canvas. The main colors are orange, blue and red....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
The Skin I'm In - Expressionist Figurative Painting of a Young Woman
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's The Skin I am In is a 34 x 35 inches expressionist oil paintings representing a young African American woman. The main colors are a very bright orange, blue and brown. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
A Link To the World - Expressionist Figurative Painting of Nude Female Figure
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's A Link To the World is a 36 x 24-inch expressionist oil paint representing a nude female figure. The primary colors are bright yellow, blue, and brown. The canvas has a...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
Eris at Play - Trompe-l'oeil Figurative Painting Made With Plaster on Canvas
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Eris at Play is a large 80 x 45 inch vertical figurative painting on canvas.
The work has very sober colors: white, black, beige, and some deep blue. It is painted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Canvas, Oil
Sogno di Oro (Golden Dream) - Symbolist Figurative Painting in Blue and Gold
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Kitterle's Sogno di Oro (Golden Dream) is a 39 x 50 inch horizontal figurative symbolist painting on canvas. This work brings the viewer in a magical setting of lapis lazuli ...
Category
2010s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
For the Megaliths to the Megalopolis - Figurative Political Painting
By Bernard Aptekar
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Aptekar's For the Megaliths to the Megalopolis is a figurative painting measuring 49.5" x 65". Aptekar's paintings are often a political and social commentary of the contradi...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Speeding City Stretches Into Flesh - Figurative Painting with Pastel Colors
By Bernard Aptekar
Located in New York, NY
Aptekar's paintings are often a political and social commentary of the contradictions inherent to the human mankind. The surrealistic and expressionistic language used to covey the m...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Last Harrah
By Gregory Kitterle
Located in New York, NY
Kitterle's paintings count stories of hidden cities, magical places and mythological characters. At times, like for this work titled The Last Harrah, they are allegorical comments. T...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Resin, Board, Plaster, Oil, Pencil
Brighter Days
By Andrei Petrov
Located in New York, NY
This enigmatic painting is part of one of the most recent body of works by Petrov. His more typical palette of purples and blues is here abandoned for a subdued composition that uses...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Promising Future
By Andrei Petrov
Located in New York, NY
This enigmatic painting is part of one of the most recent body of works by Petrov. His more typical palette of purples and blues is here abandoned for a subdued composition that uses...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Corner Stone at Chora Castle - Figurative Painting with Architectural Detail
By George Tzannes
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes' Corner Stone at Chora Castle is a 24"x24" inches acrylic figurative painting. It depicts an architectural detail of the ancient castle in Chora, in the Greek island of Kythira. Ancient ruins have been often the subject of paintings through out art history, frequently depicted for their romantic and timeless spiritual quality. This painting by Tzannes is certainly not oblivious of such tradition, yet showing a very personal and unique approach. Instead of depicting the entire building, Tzannes chooses to concentrate on a architectural detail of an ancient castle in the Greek island of Kythira. The clarity and realistic precision with which the stones are painted, like a trompe-l'oeil, confer to this artwork a sculptural quality. The viewer can almost feel the roughness of the stone, the warmth of the Greek sun...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
