Primitivism in painting (and its close relative fauvism) was poorly received when it first appeared in the work of artists like Paul Gauguin, but it left a lasting mark on art.

With a series of body-painting workshops this month, Setiawan, 33, says he’s showcasing more than the human form — he’s giving a boost to people’s body image.

In Italian painting, on the other hand, such depictions are rare, despite the diffusion of the Meditaciones in the Italic peninsula (1,2,3). A similar three-dimensional imagination of the human figure ...

Artists have depicted the human form since the days of the early cave painters. They’ve gotten a lot more sophisticated in the millennia that followed. “Embodied” offers proof at The Ringling.

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 ...

Xebgħa Nies 2 – The Human Clay is the second collective exhibition for a group of established artists who share a predisposition to draw, sculpt and paint the human figure. It is curated by ...

Now in its seventh year, “Unclad: The Fine Art of the Figure” — will be presented this weekend and next at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center in Stanwood. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m ...

Jessica Lee Ives explored the state's swimming holes to create her latest series, on view in Ellsworth.

FOR THE RECORD A column, "At the Galleries," in the Sept. 22 issue of the Coastline Pilot incorrectly identified artist Robert Story’s relation to Katharine Story.