Figurative Art
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A general category for artworks that represent recognizable material in the visible world, as opposed to abstract art. The variety of approaches to figurative art is enormous and almost as diverse as the history of art itself. In painting, figuration ranges from Photorealism (like that of Chuck Close) at one end of the spectrum to nearly abstract (like Pablo Picasso’s Analytic Cubism) at the other. For much of the 20th century, figurative painting was largely ignored by the Western avant-garde, but the course changed with the 1980s emergence of figurative painters like Anselm Kiefer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and David Salle.
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Human Figure, Oil Painting, Portrait, Figurative Painting, Bright and Vivid Colors, 21st Century, Animals, Prints, Women Artists, Contemporary Figurative Painting
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After Andy Warhol
Alan Fears
Albert Pepermans
Albrecht Dürer
Alex Katz
America Martin
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