Figurative Art - Examples

Examples

Figurative paintings of the individual human form

  • Ancient Roman woman on a balcony (9–14 CE), Getty Villa

  • Ingres, The Valpinçon Bather (1808), Louvre

  • Paul Cézanne, Bather (1885-1887), Museum of Modern Art

  • Van Gogh, On the Threshold of Eternity (1890), Kröller-Müller Museum

  • Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907), Baltimore Museum of Art

  • Ian Hornak, Marcia Sewing, Variation III (1978), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Groups of human figures

  • Ancient Egyptian painting

  • Giotto, The Lamentation (c. 1305), Scrovegni Chapel

  • Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, The construction of castle Khornaq in al-Hira (c. 1494-1495)

  • El Greco, The Opening of the Fifth Seal 1608-1614, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

  • Rubens, Judgement of Paris (c. 1636), National Gallery, London

  • Poussin, Et in Arcadia ego (Les Bergers d’Arcadie) (late 1630s), Louvre

  • Delacroix, The Barque of Dante (1822), Louvre

  • Courbet, A Burial at Ornans (1849-1850), Musee d'Orsay, Paris

  • Édouard Manet, The Old Musician (1862), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

  • Degas, Ballet Rehearsal (1873), Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) (1876), Musée d'Orsay

  • Eakins, The Swimming Hole (1884-5), Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Gauguin, The Midday Nap (1894)

  • Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Museum of Modern Art

  • Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art

  • John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar (1912), Detroit Institute of Arts

  • Ernst Kirchner, Berlin Street (1913)

  • George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American Art

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