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.

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.

Figurative painter Jonah Kinigstein was shut out of the art world when abstract expressionism came to prominence. Now he's finally getting some recognition.

The Shiff Prize was founded in 2008 by collector Dubi Shiff in memory of his father, Haim Shiff, a hotelier and early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As you walk into the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s new exhibit “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now,” a sense of warmth and intimacy fills the room, unlike the traditional environment of ...

A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The ...

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 ...