Figurative paintings

With the creation of tube painting, impressionism accentuates this research on perception with a deepened play on light and colors. Many painters worked to surpass the figurative by exploring the chromatic palette as Sisley, Monet, Pissaro ... In the 20th century, expressionism engages a strong artistic approach with violent tones, distortions of the visible world, a powerful style. The figurative style is multiple. It develops all the more as the discoveries of the microscope, cinema, photography, psychoanalysis upset the question of reality and representation. There is an immense field of possibilities in terms of figurative painting at the limit of abstraction. 



Figurative painting can also be the interpreted representation of an artist on the real world in the manner of cubists like Picasso, Braque, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon. Figurative artists want to represent what they see with their own graphic solutions, their refusal or not of traditional creative processes, their way of analyzing the problems related to figuration, their artistic quest in general and their own style.
 

If Pablo Picasso, a figure of art history, is the artist known internationally for having put forward the historical figurative art, Francis Bacon is the most famous artist of the 20th century as regards the continuity of this movement. Picasso and Warhol were able to widen the doors of figurative art. Figuration is often decried and neglected by art critics. If the transavantgarde of the 80's made art lovers believe that figurative art had disappeared, the contemporary figurative style was born again from its ashes thanks to chromo painting.