New York is a city that quickly cycles through artistic trends, so it's been surprising that figurative painting has hung on ...

The landmark Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting exhibition featuring a dozen artists at the Oakland Art Museum in 1957 had all the major names — Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff — ...

The 27th edition of the fair, held at the Grand Palais in Paris until April 6, has a large selection of galleries showing ...

Galerie Goldshteyn-Saatort hosts the exhibition Figurabstra, from April 24 to June 24, 2025. An exhibition bringing together ...

For painter and professor Suzanne Schireson, the overlap of motherhood and creativity is central to her vibrant figurative art. A mom to two children, Schireson has spent a great deal of time ...

She was a virtuosic figurative painter — one reviewer described her painting technique as “thinned out shallower than a razor” — with a flat, almost deadpan style resembling that of her ...

Philip Pearlstein is an American painter widely regarded as one the greatest figurative artists of the last century. Pearlstein’s work is often composed of multiple nude models in complex interiors, ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...