The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

A "devil-like figure" featured in a painting by a renowned artist that's more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

Closing, Issy Wood, 2022. (© Issy Wood. Courtesy of Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London) Lately, figurative painting has become a much stronger presence on the art scene—and in the art ...

Traveling from as far away as China, realist painters vie with one another in a weeklong contest. In a contemporary art world awash in -isms, realistic figure painting may seem like a quaint throwback ...

Michael Armitage, “Kampala Suburb” (2014), oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 196 x 150 cm (Private Collection, London) LONDON — About 30 or so years ago, painting’s grand State Funeral at Westminster Abbey in ...