Alice Neel was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Alice Neel was born in the rural town of Colwyn, Pennsylvania. She took the Civil Service exam and got a high-paying clerical posit

Figurative painting, Portraiture, Tranquil

Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy. In the mid-80s, she studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts

Composed, Contemporary realism, Figurative painting, Lyrical, Moody, Quirky, Sensual

The relation between art and female beauty, art and pornography, female models and models of art, all have been a constant theme for Marlene Dumas. Her work recalls the painterly gestures of Expressionism, whilst combining the critical distance of Conceptual art with the pleasures of eroticism. Some

Distorted, Erotic, Feminine, Feminist, Figurative, Figurative painting, Playful, Sensual, Sexy

Thomas Scheibitz's brand of quirky abstraction presents a futuristic vision of opulence, where even the most pedestrian subject matter is reinvented as a product of high design. Described as 'post-cubist', Scheibitz's pictorial breakdown of flowers, suburban houses and ski resorts doesn't create actu

Architectural, Deconstructive, Figurative, Figurative painting, Monumental, Superflat