Javier Marín’s sculptures have a mesmerizing quality. He focuses on the human body but the power of his work comes from the humanity — his ability to fill the objects he creates with emotion, pain and ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the ...

In the mid-1940s, as abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still honed their craft into the earth-shattering movement it would soon become, the human figure all but ...

There’s something profoundly essential and revealing in Julian Opie’s handling of the human figure—how he distills both the universality and individuality of his subjects into a basic silhouette ...

A double-entendre title that references the annual start of the school year, “Class Pictures” at the Zuckerman Museum of Art is also about social class and how portraiture can affirm or comment upon ...

In architecture, professionals must constantly deal with the challenge of representing a project clearly and understandably before it is built, making the space somehow more perceptible to people who ...

There are artists whose work is instantly recognizable. When one sees sculptures of people depicted in slender, elongated forms, Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) comes to mind. The Italian-Swiss ...