Examples of the Human Figure in Art

examples of TheHuman Figurein Art(Western Art: paint, pencil, pastel)

When viewing artwork, orcreating your own...

...consider howform, line, colourand medium canevoke emotionand/or tell astory.

Look at the following works of art that depictthe human figure.

How was form,line, colour,medium andpose used toconvey emotion?

Select artists orworks of art that inspire you.What is it about the piece that draws you in?

Critically analysethe work andattempt to use itas inspiration inyour own work.

Remember, don’t simply mimic. Transform itwith your own ideas.

“Female Figure”Filippo Lippi1430

“Study of Three Male Figures (after Raphael)” Michelangelo

“Dead Christ, mourned by the virgin, a pious woman and Saint John Apostle” Andrea Mantegna 1480

“The Birth of Venus” Sandro Botticelli c. 1486

“Venus of Urbino” Titian 1538

“The Painter and the Art Lover”Pieter Bruegel the Elder1565(engraving)

“David with the Head of Goliath” Caravaggio 1609-1610

“Four Figures at Table” Le Nain brothers c.1635

“Study for the Adulteress: half ﬁgure with folded arms, from Guercino” Giovanni Battista Piranesi

“Seated Nude Figure”Pierre-Paul PrudhonBorn: April 4, 1758, ClunyDied: February 16, 1823

“Half-ﬁgure of a Bather”Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1807

“Grande Odalisque”Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1814

“Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Child” Gustave Courbet 1841

“The Birth of Venus” Alexandre Cabanel 1863

“En un café o La Absenta” Edgar Degas 1873

“Little Girl ina Blue Armchair” Mary Cassatt 1878

“Two Ballet Dancers” Edgar Degas c.1879

“A Female Figure Resting (Dolce far Niente)” Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1882

“Sien, Sewing, Half-Figure”Vincent van Gogh1883

“La Toilette (Woman Combing Her Hair)” Edgar Degas c. 1884-1886

“Back of a Male Figure”William Merritt Chase1885

“Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin” Vincent Van Gogh 1888

“Seated Dancer in Pink Tights”Henri Toulouse-Lautrec1890

“What’s New?” Paul Gauguin 1892

“The Scream”Edvard Munch 1893

“Two Figures”Pablo Picasso1904

“Self-Portrait”Marie Laurencin 1906

“Portrait of Fritza Riedler”Gustav Klimt1906

“Portrait of Adele Bloch- Bauer 1” Gustav Klimt 1907

Egon SchieleBorn: June 12, 1890, TullnDied: October 31, 1918

“Les Demoiselles dAvignon” Pablo Picasso 1907

“Eve”Henri Rousseau1907

“Portrait of Alexander Sakharoff” Jawlensky Sakharoff 1909

“The Dancer” “Back”Andre Derain Andre Derainc.1910

“Crouching Figure (Valerie Neuzil)”Egon Schiele1913

“Border woman ﬁgure in blue Gwand” Ferdinand Hodler 1915

“Portrait of Enric Cristòfol Ricart”Joan Miró1917

"Nudo coricato di spalle" Amedeo Modigliani 1917

“Figure in Scutari Carpet”Henri Matisse1922

“Female Figures”Aleksandr Deyneka 1923

“Figure at a Window”Salvador Dali1925

“Study of a ﬁgure for Hell” John Singer SargentBorn: January 12, 1856, Florence Died: April 14, 1925

“The Waiting Room” Norman Rockwell c. 1937

“Seated ﬁgure (male classical)”Willem de Kooning1939

“The Two Fridas” Frida Kahlo 1939

“Figure”Yiannis Moralis1951

“Figure”Yiannis Moralis 1951

“Reclining Nude” Raoul DufyBorn: June 3, 1877, Le Havre Died: March 23, 1953

“Morning Sun”Edward Hopper 1952

“Study after Velazquezs Portrait ofPope Innocent X”Francis Bacon1953

“Excursion Into Philosophy” Edward Hopper 1959

“Figure with Bare Arms” Lucian Freud 1961

“Portrait of the Artists Mother,Mrs Laura Hockney, Bradford”David Hockney1972

“Two Figures with a Cat” Leland Bell c. 1980

“St. Joe Louis SurroundedSnake”Jean-Michel Basquiat1982

“Existers”Gilbert & George 1984

“Drawing for Monica with Matisse” Tom Wesselman 1986

“Paraja Ballando”Fernando Botero1987

“Give the People What They Want” Marlene Dumas 1992

“Bride” (Pastel)Paula Rego1994

“Pauline”Gary Hume1996

“Mist II”Paula Rego 1996

“Water Painting”Gary Hume1999

Remember: form,line, colour,medium & posecan evokeemotion.

(for educational purposes)

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