"For me painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I’m looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I’m bringing up and addressing." - Nathan Oliveira (The famous American figurative painter and printmaker) |
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Artworks particularly paintings and sculptures which are derived from real object sources can be defined as Figurative art. Figurative art, is therefore representational and often taken to mean art which represents the human figure, or for that matter even an animal. In other words, art which portrays, in however altered or distorted a form, things perceived in the visible world. However, since the advent of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of art that retains strong references to the real world. The elements upon which figurative art depends include line, shape, color, light and dark, mass, volume, texture, and perspective.
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The irresistable element of figurative art is that the human figure is the primary, or dominant, focus of the composition. It has been the theme of the most powerful and memorable works of art - from the Venus de Milo to the Michelangelo's Pietá, to Bouguereau's.
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The lovers of figurative art would appreciate the tremendous effort of a figurative artists in his execution, composition, and scientific observation that goes into his works. The figurative art is a result of hard work of artists who have been through classical training in anatomy, drawing, and traditional painting techniques.
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The origin of figurative art is often viewed as a crucial threshold in human evolution by Archaeologists. According to a discovery of three figurines carved from mammoth ivory at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany provides new evidence for the appearance of figurative art more than 30,000 years ago. Similarly, figures of human, animals and birds are also found on Islamic art and architecture from its earliest beginnings and appear continually across all media and in different periods and regions.
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Figurative art is created in different mediums like acrylic on canvas, acrylic on paper, oil on canvas, pastels and charcoal on paper, tempera, fibre glass, etchings, watercolors and drawings etc. |
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