Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task. Doesn’t the word apply to any artwork that represents anything in the external world? But thanks to Nicelle Beauchene ...

Dressed in an ivory white leotard and tutu, a tall Black figure poses in retiré. Arms and legs angular, chest turned towards the light. It’s a traditional oil on linen — the frothy movement of the ...

If you are an artist who works with the human figure, there’s a good chance that your bookshelf includes a dog-eared copy of Andrew Loomis’s classic Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth. Originally ...

Founded in 2011, OOA Gallery (Out of Africa Gallery) maintains a mission of fostering and promoting contemporary African art, working closely with a diverse roster of artists and developing ...

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, ...

The "Masterworks of American Landscape Painting" is the second of a series of exhibitions that will focus on The Center of Figurative Paintings collection of Post-War American Painting. The Center for ...

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. Cipriani waiters in signature white jackets served ...

Frank Auerbach, one of the world’s leading modern painters and last survivor of the post-World War II London School of figurative art that also included Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon, died November ...

Style’s relationship to skill is a more pressing issue in figurative painting than almost any other idiom. Developing a personal language, an intimacy of technique and subject matter, entails not ...

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Yale Center for British Art, Oct. 14, 1981-Jan. 3, 1982 and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 28-Mar. 28, 1982. siris_sil_181388 ...