Now that the figurative effects of Frost’s cohesive personification, frame-shifting metonymy, and imagistic hyperbole have been addressed linguistically, it’s not difficult to see why this demure ...

G2024003, one of Xu Chenyang's pieces on show. [Photo/Courtesy of artist and gallery] Xu Chenyang's artistic transition from the figurative to abstract surprised those who knew his paintings.

Xu Chenyang's artistic transition from the figurative to abstract surprised those who knew his paintings. For decades, the artist worked to blend the figurative techniques in which he took pride ...

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia – an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said ...

Figurative painter Jonah Kinigstein was shut out of the art world when abstract expressionism came to prominence. Now he's finally getting some recognition.

High profile figurative exhibitions that have recently opened and will continue into 2022 include a major double David Hockney exhibition at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (until 23 ...