2022 is the year of celebration of figurativism resurgence, arising from a need to recognize people, signs, or situations, inflated by this post-pandemic time – a need to get physical.
Portraiture has been a staple painting genre for time immemorial, but lately, artists have been massively returning to portraiture and figurativism. At times, figurativism is overlapped with natural themes such flora and fauna.
2022 is the year of celebration of figurativism resurgence, arising from a need to recognize people, signs, or situations, inflated by this post-pandemic time – a need to get physical. The increased development of this trend might point to a renewed focus on the lived experience of bodies, resulting not only from the pandemic, but also to international protests and discourse around police brutality and institutionalized racism, addressing questions of representation and visibility, for example.
In this interview, Kalinca Costa Söderlund is live with Brazilian artist Marcelo Amorim, focussing on certain aspects of Brazilian contemporary art. The interview' central theme is: "fighting power structures in Brazil by drawing attention to entrenched mechanisms of perpetuation of the hegemony".
With irresistible and unexpected compositions of human figures juxtaposed with flora, floral figures have also become a prevalent subject for artists working across mediums and focussing on figurativism. Surrealist art aficionados will appreciate the dreamlike quality of this trend, which has undoubtedly taken off for its reinvention of time-honoured subjects: the human form and nature. Inherently poetic and evocative of nature, floral heads, silhouettes, and bodies intertwined with botanicals can infuse your space with a timeless sense of romanticism. This art trend expresses a desire to get back to nature and exudes feelings of harmony, fantasy, and whimsy.
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