Key facts
- Artist
- Giorgione
- Year
- c. 1510
- Dimensions
- 108.5 cm × 175 cm (42.7 in × 68.9 in)
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Encyclopedic overview
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art:
Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “figurative art” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.