Mel Davis Figurative Paintings

Ksenya Istomina 'Melody of Silence' 105 x 70 cm Oil on linen Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings look amazin...

Ksenya Istomina 'Sweet Dreams in the Moonlight' 100 x 80 cm Oil on linen Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings...

Dimensions variable: medium oval 7.5cm x 9.5cm; large oval 9cm x 11cm. Derrick Guild is a Scottish artist whose paintings fragment Old Master works to explore the social fabric bene...

Ksenya Istomina 'Watching her sketchbook'' 75 x 75 cm Oil on linen Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings look...

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Blake's painting imagines a quiet moment about the Sultana, a steamboat carrying Union POWs home at the end of the Civil War. Hours later, the vessel exploded, killing over a thousan...

Caravaggio painted "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" with Christ looking down as he pilots Thomas’ hand to his side. Not looking at Thomas or the others, but to his wound. He seems interested in the proof of his embodiment. He wants to know that this is real. He too, questions his body, his life and death. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This artwork is unframed. Contact the gallery for framing options. Reenactment is a material culture where the feel of authentic wool has transformative power. The closer you can recreate the “kit” of the authentic soldier the closer you are to that past. In the pursuit of touching the past there are questions- Is this real? Did this happen? Is this me? Is this us? The gesture of piloting a finger into the side represents these repetitive questions. - William Blake Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war. The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War...

George Washington's dentures, painted from historical references. They were made from animal and human teeth. William Blake lives and works outside Chicago, IL. As a participant in ...

"Feelers" - Contemporary figurative oil painting of a man's torso by Chelsea Gibson Medium: Oil on linen Size 25 x 20 inches. Offered unframed. "Feelers" is part of Chelsea Gib...

This painting is a copy of After Appomattox (1870s) by John Adams Elder, a Confederate veteran and artist trained by Emanuel Leutze, known for Washington Crossing the Delaware. Elder...

In the summer of 2024, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, a father and son reenacted a Civil War "stag dance" at the Kent Cultural Alliance in Chestertown. These all-male dances, wher...

Ksenya Istomina 'Melody of Light' 105 x 70 cm Oil on linen Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings look amazingl...