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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast urban settings. In his paintings of ruins (e.g., Roman ... Read more
Hans Multscher
Hans Multscher , c.1400-1467, outstanding German sculptor and painter of the Swabian school of Ulm. Early in life he traveled to the Netherlands and Burgundy. Probably influenced by the work of Claus Sluter, he developed a powerfully realistic figural style in both painting and sculpture. About 1427... Read more
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , 1699-1779, French painter. He was a major figure of 18th-century painting. While the Académie royale still advocated history painting as the noblest form of art, Chardin painted still lifes and domestic interiors. His ability to evoke textures was extraor... Read more
Edwin Walter Dickinson
Edwin Walter Dickinson 1891-1978, American painter, b. Seneca Falls, N.Y. He studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase , and spent most of his life on Cape Cod. Working during the modernist era, Dickinson went his own way with paintings in several styles and genres. The dark, dreamlike, ... Read more
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz , 1938-, German artist, b. Deutschbaselitz, Germany, as Hans-Georg Dern. A leading figure in the neoexpressionist movement (see neoexpressionism ), he studied painting (1956-57) in East Berlin and moved to West Berlin in 1957. Since his first one-man exhibition (1961), he has become ... Read more
Kano
Kano , family or school of Japanese painters. Kano Masanobu, c.1434-c.1530, the forerunner of the school, was attached to the shogun Yoshimasa's court. He painted landscapes, birds, and figure pieces, chiefly in ink with occasional touches of pale tints. His work is Japanese in spirit, reflecting ... Read more
Karel Dujardin
Karel Dujardin , 1622-78, Dutch painter and etcher. He studied with Berchem and in Italy. Dujardin was particularly successful in painting landscapes with figures and animals, and he made some 51 fine etchings of similar subjects. His Charlatans and Cavalry (both: Louvre) are characteristic work... Read more
John Greenwood
John Greenwood 1727-92, American artist, b. Boston, Mass. An engraver and painter, Greenwood executed some of the first genre paintings in America. He is also noted for his satirical works peopled with small, energetic figures reminiscent of Hogarth's. ... Read more
limner
limner , the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well... Read more
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet , 1875-1947, French painter. In 1894 he met Matisse and later became associated with fauvism . His exuberantly colored figure studies are clearly fauvist. Marquet was a gifted draftsman. Many of his later landscapes and port scenes, painted with great clarity, are in American museums... Read more

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Mi Fei
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the poetry of Su Shih, the figure painting of Li Kung-lin, and the calligraphy...creative stimulation in it. Mi's Figure Painting Mi said that he did not begin...long-neglected first master of figure painting, Ku K'ai-chih. Mi Fei claimed...
Bacon, Francis
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the end of Bacon's painting career and life in the...individual, with a single figure (usually male) seated...and even himself. His painting technique consisted of...representatives of the figure-painting tradition. During the...
Francis Bacon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and 17th-century painting. Major Themes and Subjects...the end of Bacon's painting career and life in the...individual, with a single figure (usually male) seated...great exponents of the figure-painting tradition. During the...
Ku K'ai-chih
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...classical master of figure painting and portraiture...portraiture and figure narratives. This...the beginning of painting as a fine art in...not as a remote figure from a holy book...the oldest Chinese painting attributed to a...
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the look of Old Master painting. The new art, for instance...had dominated previous painting. These qualities, among...Renoir was a central figure of this development...the great tradition of figure painting. Although the impressionist...
Chinese art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...excelled in portraiture. The art of figure painting reached a peak of excellence in...life were popular, and the human figure was portrayed with a robustness and monumentality unequaled in Chinese painting. Animal subjects were also frequently...
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...solemn browns and blacks of previous painting. These qualities, among others...Both artists became interested in painting light and water. According to...style to the great tradition of figure painting. Although the impressionist exhibitions...
Wu Tao-tzu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Chinese painter and the most admired figure painter in Chinese history. Wu...and may have begun his study of painting under the professional craftsmen...The early history of Chinese figure painting is written in the successive achievements...
Balthus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Western tradition of figure painting. He is best known for...stillness in Balthus' painting infuses the everyday...and then donated the painting, revised by the artist...remained a kind of solitary figure. His insistence on working...
William Sidney Mount
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his first likeness, a stiff, naive painting of himself holding a flute. Next he executed his first figure painting on a religious theme, which was greatly...to 1836 Mount spent most of his time painting portraits in New York City. He made...

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black-figure vase painting
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists black-figure vase painting Technique of vase painting, originating in Corinth in...the work of Execias ; it then began to give way to red-figure painting, although black-figure vases continued to be produced for another two centuries...
red-figure vase painting
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art red-figure vase painting. One of the two major divisions of Greek vase painting, the other being black-figure . In the red-figure technique, the background was painted black...
academy figure
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists academy figure A careful painting or drawing (usually about half life-size) from the nude human figure made as an exercise, typically in an art school or academy. The figure is usually depicted in a heroic pose...
Landscape in the Arts
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...background of scenery in a portrait or figure-painting," "A distant prospect: a vista...landscape is either the subject matter of a painting or a series of prominent elements in a painting that coordinate the diversity of public...
Wadsworth, Edward
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...wealthy industrialist. He took up painting while he was studying engineering...winning prizes for landscape and figure painting. In 1913 he worked for a short...x2026; I cannot recall any painting of Mr Wadsworth's where he seems...
Lhote, André
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Janeiro in 1952. His writings included treatises on landscape painting (1939) and figure painting (1950); the two were issued together in a revised edition in 1958 as Traités du paysage et de la figure .
Balthus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...all family friends. The first painting in which he showed a strong personal...famous, indeed something of a cult figure. His work has generally been warmly...upholders of the great tradition of figure painting. George Heard Hamilton , for example...
Corot, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...1850 he was established as a major figure. His initial success was based...Throughout his career Corot also painted figure studies, as well as portraits of...and relatives, and from the 1850s figure painting (notably of the female nude) assumed...
Dobell, Sir William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...decade. During this time he won prizes for drawing and figure painting at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and...previously’ ( Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788–1990 , 1991). Two of the unsuccessful...
Watt, Alison
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...which her work can be aligned with the tradition of figure painting represented by Coldstream and Lucian Freud …...does but paints with a light tonality, as with his painting the real quality of her work lies in her command of...

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metaphor
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus metaphor • noun  the profusion of metaphors in her everyday speech has gotten pretty tiresome synonyms : figure of speech, image, trope, analogy, comparison, symbol, word painting/picture.
representation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...rendition.   2. representations of the human form synonyms : likeness, painting, drawing, picture, illustration, sketch, image, model, figure, figurine, statue, statuette.   3. formal making representations to the...
image
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...representation, resemblance, effigy, figure, figurine, doll, statue, statuette...idol, icon, fetish, graven image, painting, picture, portrait.   2. the...the use of images in poetry synonyms : figure of speech, conceit, figurative expression...
form
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...xA0; 2. of a well-built form synonyms : body, physique, figure, shape, build, frame, anatomy, silhouette, contour...genus, genre, stamp.   5. admire the form of the painting | his literary work lacks form synonyms : structure, framework...

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GO FIGURE.(figure painting)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...assignment, so I had them sketch the human figure. Painting the human figure would be an exciting change of pace...assignment in an intermediate oil painting class could garner such lively results? Go figure! Geri Greenman is head of the art...
In a class by himself The exemplary retrospective of Lucian Freud at Tate Britain might have been expected to establish his work in the great tradition of Western figure painting. In fact, says TOM LUBBOCK, it reveals him as an artist in deliberate retreat from it
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/21/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...strange. Freud paints the human figure, face and body, and his art may, of course, be compared with the figure painting of the past. It should not be...traditional ambition of human figure painting to carry large, universal, public...
Painting the figure
Magazine article from: Southwest Art; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...captivated by another form of natural beauty-the human figure. "Figurative painting has captured my heart the most, because it holds...a soul, so there's an essence about painting a figure that you don't have with a still life or a landscape...
Philemona Williamson at June Kelly.(figure painting)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...tank top that exposes a breast as she stretches her arm back toward the extended leg of a second figure, who has the tail of a mermaid. That figure's extended leg reaches up to tuck under the armpit of a third girl, looking out enigmatically...
GO FIGURE JOHN CURRIN PROVOKES ART WORLD BY PAINTING FEMALE FORM.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/17/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...importance of the figure in contemporary painting. ``When I was...draftsmanship and painting. While he put the female figure in the foreground...the basics of the figure. The ``buxom...the right kind of painting'' on the body...
Yunessi.(originals)(Yunessi offers the "Caught in a Dream, Single Figure" painting)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Art Business News; 5/1/2008; 549 words ; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Artist YUNESSI announces the release of "Caught in a dream, Single figure" an original oil on canvas, sized at 30 x 40 inches. For pricing and more information, call 949-364-2016; e-mail yunessi@yahoo.com.
The way of all flesh. (figure painting, Ivan Albright, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; Nearly 15 years after Ivan Albright's death, a retrospective, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, permits a reevalation of this maverick artist's obsessively detailed, relentlessly morbid paintings. Ivan Albright (1897-1983) is certainly one of the most startling and enigmatic
The figure returns. (43rd Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran...Art brought the figure back to center stage...a broad range of painting styles using the figure as a battered but...preeminence, of the figure in contemporary American painting. Sultan's premise...
'Ghostly' figure returns to Assembly painting
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/29/2001; 420 words ; 'Ghostly' figure returns to Assembly painting Saturday, December 29, 2001 Madison -- There's a ghost in the state Capitol. Sort of. A ghostly figure can be seen from some angles in a mural in the state Assembly...
Figure 2055.(ARCHIVES)(a painting by Tatiana Garmendia)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology; 9/22/2007; 602 words ; ...late 1800s and early 1900s as it is today. This contemporary painting by Cuban-American artist Tatiana Garmendia pays tribute to...certainty against invisible realms, both mystical and physical. Figure 2055 conjures an X-ray-like image of the human skeleton...