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  • Francis Bacon | Figurative

    Francis Bacon | Figurative

    Follow Francis Bacon from a Dublin childhood to the 1944 triptych that split British painting into before and after, then look closely at the screaming popes and twisted figures that made…

  • The resurgence of figurative art in the contemporary gallery scene | Figurative

    The resurgence of figurative art in the contemporary gallery scene | Figurative

    Is figurative art resurgent? What museums, market data and critics say, and which figurative artists on WooArts carry the tradition forward.

  • Barkley L. Hendricks | Figurative

    Barkley L. Hendricks | Figurative

    Explore Barkley L. Hendricks, the American painter and photographer known for striking portraits of Black Americans, bold color, realism, photography, landscapes, and works on paper.

  • Michael Klein | Figurative

    Michael Klein | Figurative

    Michael Klein is an American painter known for floral still lifes built on classical technique and a Midwestern eye for honest color. He also paints portraits, including a grand prize winning…

  • Tarmeño Fernández Villalba | Figurative

    Tarmeño Fernández Villalba | Figurative

    Tarmeño Fernández Villalba is a Peruvian painter who gives dignity to people often left out of art, from street children in Ecuador to prisoners and rural workers. He paints faces, horses,…

  • Pavel Sokov | Figurative

    Pavel Sokov | Figurative

    Pavel Sokov is a Russian born portrait painter who left a marketing career to study classical drawing at Watts Atelier. His Gravitas series paints scientists with the same care usually reserved…

  • Serge Marshennikov | Figurative

    Serge Marshennikov | Figurative

    Serge Marshennikov is a Russian painter known for intimate, almost photographic portraits of women in quiet domestic rooms. Trained at the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, he builds skin, hair, and…

  • Victor Wang | Figurative

    Victor Wang | Figurative

    Victor Wang is a Chinese American painter whose portraits carry the weight of memory, migration, and a childhood shaped by the Cultural Revolution. He returns often to sunflowers, once a symbol…

  • Mary Whyte | Figurative

    Mary Whyte | Figurative

    Mary Whyte is an American watercolorist known for tender, honest portraits of everyday people in the South Carolina Lowcountry. After training in Philadelphia, she found her deepest subject painting the women…

  • Jeffrey T Larson | Figurative

    Jeffrey T Larson | Figurative

    Jeffrey T Larson is an American painter working in the classical realist tradition, known for still lifes, figures, and portraits built on careful drawing and quiet natural light. Trained at Atelier…

  • Tina Spratt | Figurative

    Tina Spratt | Figurative

    Tina Spratt is a British figurative painter drawn to quiet, intimate moments and the soft fall of light across a room. Working in oils and pastel from her studio in Somerset,…

  • Ryo Shiotani | Figurative

    Ryo Shiotani | Figurative

    Ryo Shiotani is a Tokyo born realist painter who deepened his classical technique while studying in Florence. Known for quiet, carefully observed still lifes and figures, he had major solo shows…