Contemporary Figurative Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Dude
By Paul Fuentes
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Man on beach.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Source of Happiness
Located in New York, NY
Homage to John Wayne. Oil on canvas. Conceptual. One of a kind.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visage Irina Gros Plan
Located in Porto, 13
Visage Irina Gros Plan,2013
Oil on Canvas
A lot delicacy is felt in the traits of the drawings from Philippe Pasqua, which in no way diminishes the strength of each work. Thus, a fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signal distortion #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape cream art
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stacked
Located in Detroit, MI
Stacked
acrylic, spray paint on canvas
60" x 60"
2022
Part of the New Minority Series
Dennis Jones was first introduced to the use of a bidet while being...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Rebirth
Located in Miami, FL
“Rebirth”
2023
30x40 in
Acrylic on canvas
$3000
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Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
At The Wall
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Engaging. Female centric.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of refl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Urban Empire # 9
Located in Singapore, SG
In the Mughal era, we see kings and queens looking out into their natural space - scenic beauty containing nature and architecture. Given the settings, what would happen if the king ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pigment
Look at things from distance #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century Contemporary art red
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
Marvel's Macbeth
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Engaging. Ben Affleck's batman homage.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Path of Life # 2
Located in Singapore, SG
Path of life it’s a historical based painting. A lot of example over in history that a king becomes a monk, a robber becomes a monk or nature lover. They always try to spread his lov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Golden Lotus #1
Located in Singapore, SG
"It's a mythological based painting. I try to do a dramatic composition in this painting. A illustration of ""vagbat gita "" Helps to build the unic composition. That time when Lord Krishna...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Max Pellegrini. "Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo" is an oil on canvas painting executed primarily in a palette of blues and yellows with ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redoshi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Incarnation
Located in Singapore, SG
For this painting the artist found inspiration from the religious poem on the ‘Sarvesh’ incarnation of Lord Mahadev. This work illustrates the beauty of that poetic description.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Sailcloth, Tempera
Dialogue
Located in Wien, 9
In his turbulent compositions, lines and colors overlap and condense into figuratively looking scenes. As a figurative informal painter or informal figure painter, he proves in a way...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Celia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Figurative Landscape painting -Este Castle
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal University. After graduating from the University in 2013, in September of the same year, he entered the studio of Giovanni Chiapello in the painting department of l'accademia Di Belle arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Figurative Still life painting - Seven pots
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal Univer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Resultado Del Deseo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Japanese
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Washi Paper, Pigment
"Las cosas no son lo que parecen" figurative, abstract, colorful ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Alejandra España presupposes the development of her language of forms through the creation of symbolic functionalism and allegories that elevates the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Untitled" - Agave, pink and green, organic, nature, Mexican, figurative paint
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chaos at the Lake Stymphale Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Its A Wander-Full Life
Located in Detroit, MI
It's A Wander-Full Life
acrylic on canvas
60x60 in
Part of the Lunacy series
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nestings #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape contemporary art blue
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living beings with a vegetable heart. They roam freely (it seems to us *) between the earth and the air in search of their roots. They bathe and transform in liquid crystal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
Field Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting landscape animal bird crow
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Jasmine and Clove, 2017
oil on Dibond
10” x 8” unframed
13.5" x 11.75" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"A World in a Flower" figurative oil painting girl nature dreamy meditation zen
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
"A World in a Flower" is a Buddhist saying, similar meaning like what William Blake's poem says, to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Richard Potter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Doom Hey Blue
Located in Santa Monica, CA
In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Veduta
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Veduta
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
70 x 50 cm
2015
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The rebirth of nudity Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Outsider Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right
« Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival.
Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Hue #21
Located in New York, NY
Cool spray paint and oil on wood...nighttime scene on highway.
About the Artist
Percy Fortini-Wright is a Boston based artist who received both his BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. While in his youth he wrote graffiti, most active during the late 1990’s, becoming a technician of wild style graffiti letters, tags and bubble letters while simultaneously he evolved as a traditional painter of scenes, abstraction, and portraiture to his characters the Children from Beyond. In graduate school he mentored with artists Paul Rahilly, Ken Beck, Paul Goodnight...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Spray Paint
23042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our artists who have remained loyal to f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Gemini, 2020
oil on panel
17.5" x 12" unframed
21” x 15.5” framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Dioscuri" oil painting figurative female portrait stockings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Dioscuri, 2019
oil on Dibond
18" x 12" unframed
21.5 x 15.5" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Girl from Ipanema - Watercolor Figurative Painting, Limited Edition Print, 2021
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Experience the epitome of sun-kissed serenity with "Girl From Ipanema," a captivating fine art figurative watercolor painting that transports you to the sandy shores of Brazil's icon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Né au soleil (Born in the sunshine)
Located in PARIS, FR
Large circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. This work shows in great detail two beautiful sunflowers rising up from the deep sea. Yellow butterflies are around them....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Linen, Oil
Our story was a ghostly one
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
5TH DIMENSIONAL LOVE MACHINE
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas
Black exterior frame
Signed on the front
Framed dimensions: 163x269(x5)cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
45042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
No extenuating circumstances #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century Contemporary art blue
Located in Paris, FR
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Two Horses
Located in New York, NY
Acrylics, inks, archival spray on custom stretched canvas. Triptych of Two Horses at play. Subdued palate.
About the Artist:
My process often moves m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Venice - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Beyond Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting character skyscape black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pido ayuda
By João Cardoso
Located in MADRID, ES
PIDO AYUDA title means looking for help and this came up when during the painting João Cardoso found an article that had the same title and it was about a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Miel y Canela
By LUNA, CARLOS
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An artwork by Carlos Luna. "Miel y Canela" is a contemporary painting, gouache and charcoal on amate paper in red, black, and brown by Latin American artist Carlos Luna. The artwork ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The inseparable I -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper
Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
The bird behind the curtain -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper
Signed and dated by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait.
About the Artist:
My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White and black suite, Caroline Veith 21st Century Contemporary figurative paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on cut paper pasted on paper
Signed and dated lower left
Unique work
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Keith Snow Storm
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the infamous Keith Richards. Photographed by Joester.
About the Artist:
Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & Roll photographer and mixed media a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Mixed Media, Photographic Film
Full Palette
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the artist:
Mollo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Caïn and Abel II
Painting on wood
120 cm x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Reckless
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of car on a curve. Sunglasses hang from the steering wheel. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the artist:
Molloy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Queen moth -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper
Signed and dated by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
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