figurative art
Art showing things
Figurative art depicts recognizable subjects from the real world—people, animals, objects, landscapes—as opposed to abstract art, which doesn't represent identifiable things.
The term covers everything from Renaissance portraits to contemporary realism.
A figure painter specializes in the human form: She studied figurative art before moving into abstraction.
- portraitureArt of depicting people
- painted portraitArtistic depiction of someone
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- realismAccepting things as they are
- narrative artArt that depicts events
visual narrative · pigment · Renaissance art · painting · sculpture · historical events · mimesis · religious iconography · palette · life drawing · still life · art · fine arts · art history · classical tradition · allegory · chiaroscuro · landscape
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
- visual artdrawing, fine art, painting, portrait, sketch
- picturespicture, photograph, photo, image, pic
- artworkpaintings, portrait, drawings, drawing, illustrations
figurative artabstract art
Visual work avoiding depiction
abstraction · abstract expressionism · lyrical abstraction · hard-edge painting · minimalism
figurative artabstract art
Visual work avoiding depiction
pure form · formalism · conceptual art · art for art's sake · lyrical abstraction
figure, figures, figured, figuring, disfigured, disfigure, figurative, transfigure, prefigure