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 +[[Image:Fouquet Madonna.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels]]'' (detail, c. [[1450]]) [[Jean Fouquet]]]]
 +[[Image:Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Olympia (Manet) |Olympia]]'' (detail) by [[Édouard Manet]] was a [[succès de scandale]] when it was first exhibited at the [[Paris Salon of 1865]]. Today, it is considered as the start of [[modern art]].]]
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'''Figurative art''' describes [[work of art|artwork]] - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition [[representation (arts)|representational]]. The term "figurative art" is often taken to mean art which represents the [[human figure]], or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so because since the arrival of [[abstract art]] the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the [[real world]]. '''Figurative art''' describes [[work of art|artwork]] - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition [[representation (arts)|representational]]. The term "figurative art" is often taken to mean art which represents the [[human figure]], or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so because since the arrival of [[abstract art]] the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the [[real world]].
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Until the arrival of radical early [[Modernism]] circa [[1912]], figurative art was dominant in [[Western art]]. By the late 1920s it had fallen deeply out of fashion in the art world, as various forms of Modernist (and later post-Modernist) abstraction became the dominant mode. Yet through major artists such as [[Balthus]] and [[Francis Bacon]] it retained an important place in Western art to the present day. Until the arrival of radical early [[Modernism]] circa [[1912]], figurative art was dominant in [[Western art]]. By the late 1920s it had fallen deeply out of fashion in the art world, as various forms of Modernist (and later post-Modernist) abstraction became the dominant mode. Yet through major artists such as [[Balthus]] and [[Francis Bacon]] it retained an important place in Western art to the present day.
 +==Evolution==
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 +Figurative art is itself based upon a tacit understanding of abstracted shapes: the figure sculpture of [[Greek antiquity]] was not [[naturalistic]], for its forms were idealized and [[geometric]]. [[Ernst Gombrich]] referred to the strictures of this schematic imagery, the adherence to that which was already known, rather than that which is seen, as the "Egyptian method", an allusion to the memory-based clarity of imagery in [[Egyptian art]].
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 +Eventually [[idealization]] gave way to observation, and a figurative art which balanced ideal geometry with greater realism was seen in [[Classical sculpture]] by 480 B.C. The Greeks referred to the reliance on visual observation as [[mimesis]]. Until the time of the [[Impressionists]], figurative art was characterized by attempts to reconcile these opposing principles.
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 +The rise of the [[Neoclassicism|Neoclassical]] art of [[Nicholas Poussin]] and [[Jacques-Louis David]] ultimately engendered the [[Realism (visual arts)|realistic]] reactions of [[Gustave Courbet]] and [[Édouard Manet]].
== New figurative art == == New figurative art ==
-Figurative painting is now slowly becoming accepted again in the contemporary art world from artists such as [[John Currin]] and [[Odd Nerdrum]]. + 
 +:''[[new figurative art]]''
 +Figurative painting is now slowly becoming accepted again in the contemporary art world from artists such as [[John Currin]], [[Lisa Yuskavage]] and [[Odd Nerdrum]].
In Belgium this trend is exeplified by the work of [[Luc Tuymans]] and [[Michaël Borremans]]. In Belgium this trend is exeplified by the work of [[Luc Tuymans]] and [[Michaël Borremans]].
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 +==See also==
 +*[[Abstract art]]
 +*[[Illustration]]
 +*[[Narrative art]]
 +*[[Neofigurative|Neofigurative art]]
 +*''[[Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection]]''
 +*[[Stuckism]]
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Figurative art describes artwork - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational. The term "figurative art" is often taken to mean art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so because since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.

Painting can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative source. However, the term is usually used as a synonym for non-representational art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.

Until the arrival of radical early Modernism circa 1912, figurative art was dominant in Western art. By the late 1920s it had fallen deeply out of fashion in the art world, as various forms of Modernist (and later post-Modernist) abstraction became the dominant mode. Yet through major artists such as Balthus and Francis Bacon it retained an important place in Western art to the present day.

Evolution

Figurative art is itself based upon a tacit understanding of abstracted shapes: the figure sculpture of Greek antiquity was not naturalistic, for its forms were idealized and geometric. Ernst Gombrich referred to the strictures of this schematic imagery, the adherence to that which was already known, rather than that which is seen, as the "Egyptian method", an allusion to the memory-based clarity of imagery in Egyptian art.

Eventually idealization gave way to observation, and a figurative art which balanced ideal geometry with greater realism was seen in Classical sculpture by 480 B.C. The Greeks referred to the reliance on visual observation as mimesis. Until the time of the Impressionists, figurative art was characterized by attempts to reconcile these opposing principles.

The rise of the Neoclassical art of Nicholas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David ultimately engendered the realistic reactions of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet.

New figurative art

new figurative art

Figurative painting is now slowly becoming accepted again in the contemporary art world from artists such as John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Odd Nerdrum.

In Belgium this trend is exeplified by the work of Luc Tuymans and Michaël Borremans.

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