«We are living in a time that's ripe with debate over what it means to be a human in one kind of body or another,» says Emily Mae Smith, one of 20
female figurative painters discussed below.
RELATED: ««Women Painting Women» at RJD Gallery Reveals the Collective Power of
Female Figurative Painters» by Pat Rogers.
Click here to read the preview story «Women Painting Women at RJD Gallery Reveals the Collective Power of
Female Figurative Painters» by Pat Rogers.
Her work joins that of peers like Genieve Figgis and Vera Iliatova (as well as that of certain
female figurative painters from previous generations, such as Nicole Eisenman, Marlene Dumas, and Florine Stettheimer) in combatting art historical tropes with lyrical and complex depictions of women.
Not exact matches
Picking up the baton from generations of male
figurative painters, such as Lucian Freud, to whom she is frequently compared, Jenny Saville is often credited with a «reappropriation» of the
female figure.
Remarking on the «Women Painting Women: Our Collective Conscience,» Demato pointed out that the show not only reveals a snapshot of the current state of
painters working in contemporary
figurative realism today but provides insights into the different muses influencing
female painters today.
A major figure in both the Abstract Expressionist and American
Figurative Expressionist movements of the 1940s and 1950s, Elaine de Kooning was a prominent American
painter who can easily be classified as one of the most important
female artists of the 20th...
Chloe Early, Chloe, Early,
Painter, contemporary, Irish, Oil, Paintings, Artist, London, aluminium panel, Artist, Bricklane, East London, New York, Streetart, Art, Street,
Figurative,
Female, Colourful, colorful, colour, vibrant, exhibition, lazarides, conor harrington,
Yuskavage is among the
female painters credited with bringing
figurative work back into the contemporary art game after a lengthy affair with abstraction, but her take is unparalleled, taking representation to another level.
Last year Artsy, the art collecting and education website, observed that «a critical mass of
female painters are embracing figuration [
figurative art], diversifying it, and pushing the conversation around it forward.»
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American
painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the
female body and archetypes in
figurative painting.