Marlene Dumas is a contemporary South African painter, whose figurative works have earned her a place among the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. With an oeuvre of haunting ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

By Penelope Green Marcia Marcus, a figurative and conceptual artist with a steely will and a bold contemporary style ... Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six.” And again, two years later ...