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 ...

Internationally he is probably most famous for Black Square - a work that epitomises his love of abstract forms, in a radical break from figurative art rooted in recognisable reality. Malevich ...

In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

A selection from her collection of semi-abstract, semi-figurative works, painter Dorota Zys is showing at the Casa del as ...

Figurative-style paintings on show at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Ai Xuan, Yang Feiyun and Wang Yidong, three painters known for their ...