Philip Pearlstein, “Two Models with Four Goose Decoys” (1994) Pearlstein made his mark by painting unromanticized views of the human body at a time when such realism was enormously unpopular.

News; Cleveland Museum of Art’s big exhibition on Alberto Giacometti shines light on a modern master’s obsession with the human figure. Published: ; Mar. 20, 2022, 7:00 a.m.

Naomi Fry interviews the artist Carroll Dunham about his most recent paintings, how the art world resembles a cult, and what it’s like being the father of Lena Dunham.

“Everything else is really, really simple compared to the human figure.” Pearson says he has been an artist since age 4, when he first discovered the concept of the human form as art in the ...

From the moment humans began painting, they've been wrestling with the body. The bird-like figure discovered in the caves of Lascaux, France, looks nothing like the broad-backed male drying his face ...

New art exhibition celebrates the human figure on Mare Island “From Life,” opens at Mare Island Art Studios March 1 and continues throughout the month ...

Art The artists revealing the multiplicity of the human body. Contemporary South Asian printmakers and photographers depict figures forever in flux in “Body Transformed,” a show at the ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

"Though I'm interested in most of the new art, painting remains for me a very physical thing ... He felt a sudden need for “a kind of constraint,” and found it by painting the human figure.

It was a nude prelude to a larger buff body painting bonanza scheduled for July 24 in the same park involving 30 artists and 50 models. The event is being staged by Golub’s nonprofit Human ...

Scott Ring, left, and Bo Attwood, right, watch models get painted at Human Connection Arts 8th Annual NYC Body Painting Day in Union Square Park on Sunday, July 25, 2021 in New York. Tim Davis gets… ...