Figurative art refers to the art as opposed to abstraction. You can think that anything that looks like nature is figurative art.

If you want to represent painters, well, just from the perspective of popularity, just name a few, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Rubens, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso and so on. And our Wu Daozi and Fan Kuan, uh-huh, except those abstract artists.

In addition, there is a so-called new figurative art, which, in foreign words, is almost a famous painter who did not draw abstract paintings after World War II, such as Freud, Bacon, Balthus and Kiefer. In China, there are also some loose and vague concepts claiming to be new figurative art. Generally speaking, contemporary painters such as Zhang Xiaogang, Ceng Fanzhi and Yue Minjun who don't draw abstractions and don't look like academics are counted.