Ein Meerhafen ("A Seaport"), a figurative landscape by the Austrian artist Johann Anton Eismann (1604–1698), which depicts buildings, people, ships, and other features that can be distinguished individually; by contrast, the abstract landscape below suggests its subject matter without directly representing it
Untitled abstract expressionist landscape by the American artist Jay Meuser (1911–1963)
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art:
Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.[1]
Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym of non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.
Figurative art is not synonymous with figure painting (art that represents the human figure), although human and animal figures are frequent subjects.
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Figurativeart, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources...
Western culture at that time. Abstract art, non-figurativeart, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have...
approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world...
American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United...
The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Figurativeart is present in Europe and Southeast Asia, beginning between...
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area FigurativeArt, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was...
for the oldest examples of non-figurative cave art in the Iberian Peninsula. Represented by three red non-figurative symbols found in the caves of Maltravieso...
however, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurativeart painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown...
destruction of art that is disliked for a variety of reasons, including religious ones. Aniconism is a general dislike of either all figurative images, or...
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New York Figurative Expressionism is a visual arts movement and a branch of American Figurative Expressionism. Though the movement dates to the 1930s,...
Deaths of American Art,” Art News 59 (October 1960), p.25 Paul Schimmel and Judith E Stein, The Figurative fifties : New York figurative expressionism (Newport...
art Figurativeart Figuration Libre Fine Art Folk art Flemish painting Fluxus Funk art Futurism Geometric abstract art Glitch art Graffiti/Street Art Gutai...
perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurativeart). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create...
intentions. Figurative or representational art is described as unambiguous or requiring mild interpretation. Abstract vs Figurativeart The popular distaste...
oldest undisputed examples of figurativeart are known from Europe and from Sulawesi, Indonesia, dated about 35,000 years old (Art of the Upper Paleolithic)...
define the periods in art in all media, although in many ways figurativeart developed at a different pace. The earliest Gothic art was monumental sculpture...
thousands of years. Art of the Upper Paleolithic includes figurativeart beginning between about 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Non-figurative cave paintings...
imprinted, or painted on media. Figurativeart resembles animals or humans, or "figures." Non-figurative Non-figurativeart is abstract designs imprinted...
included cows, bears, monkeys, and dogs. Much the most common form of figurativeart found is small carved seals. Thousands of steatite seals have been recovered...
oldest undisputed example of a depiction of a human being. In terms of figurativeart only the lion-headed, zoomorphic Löwenmensch figurine is older. The...
is the Mousterian of the Neanderthals. One of the oldest examples of figurativeart, the Venus of Hohle Fels, comes from the Aurignacian or Proto-Gravettian...
Gilliam, Larry Zox, Dan Christensen, Natvar Bhavsar, Larry Poons Neo-figurativeart – Fernando Botero, Antonio Berni Neo-expressionism – Georg Baselitz...
works of art, made by Neanderthals about 51,000 years ago. In November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurativeart painting...
20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurativeart, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists...
Early Christian art survives from dates near the origins of Christianity, although many early Christians associated figurativeart with pagan religion...
music. The flutes were found in caves with the oldest known examples of figurativeart. Music and sculpture as artistic expression have developed simultaneously...
Figurative Constructivism is an art movement that arose principally in Germany. The term was introduced by Franz Seiwert in 1929 using the phrase "gegenständlichen...
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