And then, the story continues, art began to grope its way back from this extremity: first with the New Image Painting of the ...

That stuff can’t be faked. The San Francisco Bay painters [Richard Diebenkorn in his figurative phase of the 1950s and ’60s, David Park] were figurative but stopped short of rendering anatomy.

Previously, the world’s oldest figurative art was believed to be ivory figurines of humans and animals carved in Germany and discovered in 2003, but those were 40,000 years old at most. There ...

African figurative art holds pivotal importance in contemporary African art, serving as a dynamic bridge between tradition and modernity. It encapsulates diverse narratives, cultural richness, and ...

Noel Anderson obscures a Black portrait in his textile piece,"Michael in Sound Suit," (2019). Akinkugbe hopes the exhibition shows the "sprawling" nature of Black figurative art.

To Kinigstein, though, the twilight of figurative art meant it was less and less likely that he would ever make a living as a painter. The rejection stung. "I made painting after painting.

A Whitney Museum exhibition spotlights the Pakistani-American artist, whose deft depictions of young gay men signal hope for the future of figurative painting. By Peter Plagens Dec. 19, 2020 7:00 ...

The oldest figurative painting, found in caves at the far eastern edge of the island of Borneo, depicts a wild cow with horns and dates to at least 40,000 years ago — thousands of years older ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they claim to be the oldest example of figurative art made by human hands. An ochre painting of pigs, found on a cave wall in Indonesia, has been dated to be at ...