figurative painting

Riccardo Rossati, figurative painter Paris & Singapore Born in Rome, from artist family, Riccardo started very young with oil painting. After classic high school he attended Fine Arts academy. He worked for several years in Tunisia and in France. He deepened his knowledge of painting with stages in Odd Nerdrum studio in Norway. His works […]

Andrew Salgado in London Andrew SalgadoThe Misanthrope10 October – 17 November Andrew Salgado exhibits large-scale, gestural figurative paintings that verge into bold abstraction with The Misanthrope, opening 10 October from 6-9pm at Beers.Lambert Contemporary 1 Baldwin Street London, EC1V 9NU Gallery open Tuesday to Saturday, 11-6pm Salgado’s work has been featured in METRO, The Independent,

Chuck Miller, nudes & cows Ok, I grew up and still live in Texas. I have an extremely hard time showing my nudes in small town Texas. All I ever hear is that… “I think your work is beautifully, but you know this is … And we don’t want to offend anyone, so no you

Piotr Antonow, colorful life paintings Most of the painting or drawing I do is in studio environment from life model(s). I rarely get to do more than 7 sittings, but I would love to do like 20. I normally start with a very large brush (2″ wide flat) and I build the structure and the

Excellent long article in Guardian UK by Rachel Cooke“Jenny Saville: ‘I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies’ Jenny Saville’s nudes are firmly in the vein of Lucian Freud, yet only now is she having her first major British solo show. I have a low-level dread of artists’ studios, which tend

Andrew Salgado captures the masculine My practice explores the correlation between the concept of masculinity and the properties of the medium; generally based in paint, at times my practice also incorporates video, text, sculpture, performance, and paper-based work. The objective of this pursuit is to challenge a perspective of identity through heightened, purposefully self-aware representation,