He fuses his subjects together in all their realities and his imaginations, positing memories and dreams as he constructs these landscapes. They force viewers to see them with a certain lightness. His solo exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery entitled ‘Stalker’ highlights these works, showcasing Liu Feng’s world of prowlers and chance meetings that mingle with the aforementioned surrealist tendencies through the mundane and dreamscapes.įantastical and poetic with their evocative sceneries and objects, Liu Feng’s works are also highly figurative and personal. Often shown with a coastal backdrop, his subjects are active, jovial and outgoing, yet with hardly any facial representation. Liu Feng’s figures exude the surrealist feels of Rene Magritte’s. Here on The Artling, we see how artists have successfully executed this, merging themes and techniques across a variety of ways to keep figurative art alive today: Like many others in the contemporary art world, figurative art has teamed up with other genres such as abstract, cubist and even minimalist art whilst still withholding a strong sense of figuration. These versatile illusionary characteristics, abstractive interpretation of figurative art, together with the invention of photography, has allowed for the genre to include multiplicities of definitions.įast-forwarding to art-making today, we notice that figurative works still have a stronghold in our contemporary sphere. Famous abstract expressionist artists such as Mark Rothko and Joan Miro also have contested that “any residual presence of the figure, no matter how abstracted, can be constituted as figuration”. Over some periods, there were some figurative artists who aimed to create images that extended from what was real, thereby inventing illusionary effects. However, arguments have been made across the evolution of figurative art. It is regarded as what contrasts abstract art - art that does not employ recognizable motifs - also known as non-representational art. Traditionally, figurative artist strove to create works that were derived from real object sources and often depicted human figures.
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