figure painting
Human form canvas
Figure painting is the art of depicting the human body, distinguished from landscape, still life, or abstract work.
The term covers everything from Renaissance nudes to contemporary portraits.
A figure painter specializes in this genre: She studied figure painting at the academy.
The related practice of working from a live model is called figure drawing when done in pencil or charcoal.
- Renaissance artEuropean cultural rebirth's visual output
- Old MastersPre-modern European artists
- proportionsRelative amounts or dimensions
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- dramatic lightingHigh-contrast, mood-setting illumination
musculature · chiaroscuro · dynamic poses · posture · canvas · art studio · classical training · human form · nude model · emotion · underpainting · facial expressions · life drawing · skeletal structure · foreshortening · glazing · Impressionism · allegory
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- Fine Artportrait, landscape, sketch, watercolor, drawing
- paintingwatercolor, oils, watercolors, acrylics, gouache
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- art termssculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape, still life
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
figure paintinglandscape painting
Art depicting natural vistas
still life · seascape · cityscape · animal painting · abstract painting
figure paintingabstract art
Visual work avoiding depiction
abstract painting · abstraction · abstract expressionism · hard-edge painting · action painting
figure, painting, figures, figured, figuring, figurine, figurative, figuratively, configuration