The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

Traveling from as far away as China, realist painters vie with one another in a weeklong contest. In a contemporary art world awash in -isms, realistic figure painting may seem like a quaint throwback ...

Painter Peter Doig, who turns to photographs for inspiration, combines representation with abstraction in such works as "Paragon," 2006. Michael Werner Gallery, NY Impressionists such as Monet and ...