Realist Art
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Blood Moon, 9 x 12 Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's "Blood Moon," a 2024 oil and gold on panel, is a captivating piece measuring 9 x 12 inches, presented within a frame sized at 13.50 x 16.50 inches. Available on 1st Dibs...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pruned, 12 x 12, Still Life, Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's "Pruned," a 2024 original, is an intimate oil on mounted linen painting that measures 12 x 12 inches, encased in a frame that extends the dimensions to 17 x 17 inches. T...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Stardust, 23 x 41, Landscape, Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Statement 'Stardust'
“Our little planet floats like a mote of dust in the morning sky,” writes Carl Sagan. “All that you see, all that we can see, exploded out of a star bill...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Remember When, 30 x 30, Landscape, Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's 2023 piece, "Remember When," is a poignant example of the artist's engagement with the classical landscape genre, presented in oil on mounted linen. The dimensions of th...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pocket Full Moon 2, Original Painting, Skyscape, Space, Lunar, Affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Full Moon is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Porte Saint Denis, Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Porte Saint Denis, Paris" c.1929 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist estate at the lower cen...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Tide Pool IV, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
An original oil seascape painting of shells and shell fragments scattered in a tidal pool. This is the 5th in my series of tide pool paintings. The paintings in this collection are i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Embryo I, 6 x 6 Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's "Embryo I," a 2023 original, is a mesmerizing oil on panel that measures 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm) with a striking framed dimension of 12 x 12 inches. This piece, ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
John Muench at Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art (Signed by John Muench)
Located in New York, NY
John Muench at Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art (Signed by John Muench), ca. 1982
Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by John Muench)
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed by John...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
A New Light II, 12 x 12 Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's "A New Light II," a 2023 original, captures the essence of dawn in an oil on linen masterpiece. Sized at a square 12 x 12 inches and framed to a commanding 20 x 20 inche...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Snorkeling In Hawaii, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a 6-panel original oil painting featuring a collection of my favorite reef fish in Hawaii set in a spectacular offshore beach setting at Bali Hai on the island of Kauai. Each...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Welsh Miner.1970s Social Realist Work.Original Mixed Media Painting.Coal Mines.
By Jack Crabtree
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Jack Crabtree.
English ( b.1938 ).
Welsh Miner
Mixed Media. Signed.
Image size 14.8 inches x 17.5 inches ( 37.5cm x 44.5cm ).
Frame size 23.4 inches x 26.2 inches ( 59.5cm x 66.5cm ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Tide Pool IV, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
An intricate and textural painting of seashells and shell rubble in a tide pool. This is a 40â€
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage 20th Century Oil Painting of a River Landscape with Silver Birch Trees
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage 20th Century Oil Painting of a River Landscape with Silver Birch Trees
Art measures 10 x 8 inches
Frame measures 12 x 10 inches
Presented in the original period frame
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunting Dogs with Geese, Landscape by 19th Century French painter
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Hunting Dogs with Geese" is a 26 x 21.5 inches, oil on canvas landscape of two dogs on the trail by the river. The canvas is signed "B Lanoux" in the lower left. B. Lanoux is a lis...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Celeste-original abstract female portrait-figurative painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Montana Engels: "Celeste is a painting that holds the entire world in her gaze. She captures every wandering eye and stops the world from spinning by drawing you in with her gaze."
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Quietude Embrace
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Kamsar Ohanyan is an Armenian artist born in 1991 who lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied in Yerevan at State Pedagogical University with Kh. Abovyan at th...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Embracing The Past
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Malé-original abstract female portrait-figurative painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Montana Engels: "Malé is painted with sand and shells from the Maldives. Hence the name Malé, referring to the capital of the Maldives. From up close the painting looks abstract with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Still Life wWth Quinces And Candlestick Classical Oil Painting Irina Trushkova
Located in Zofingen, AG
The beautiful gold color of fruits and their texture inspired me to create this work. The painting style is inspired by the masters of the 17th century of Holland. The color scheme i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nuya-original abstract female figurative-wildife painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Montana Engels: "This pink, purple, blue painting is inspired by a sunset in the Mountains of Switserland. Dawn light hitting the mountains in an ever so delicate way that reflects t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Scotland
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Kamsar Ohanyan is an Armenian artist born in 1991 who lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. He studied in Yerevan at State Pedagogical University with Kh. Abovyan at th...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats in Harbor
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Boats are in the harbor which is captured by an unknown artist who is painting in oil.
Vibrant colors dominate this original.painting.
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Oxford Spires All Souls College Radcliffe Camera etching by Richard Beer
By Richard Beer
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Sheep by an Idyllic Tree Lined River Landscape in Ireland by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Sheep by an Idyllic Tree Lined River Landscape in Ireland by Modern 20th Century Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons
Art measures 18 x 14 inches
Frame measure 21.5 x 17.5 inches
Frank...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homey Scene with Flowers and Lady Reading 1897 Norwegian Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
The signature at the bottom right with the date and ink inscriptions on the stretcher lead us to the Norwegian painter Henrik Asor Hansen (1862 - 1929). In the center of the scene is...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elizabeth Osborne (American/Philadelphia, b. 1936)
Untitled (Portrait of a Lady), 1974.
Watercolor painting on paper, signed and dated lower right.
Unframed. Size: 22.75'' x 30...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
"Key Lime Pie" Original Oil Painting 20 in x 20 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Key Lime Pie"
2020
Oil on linen
20 in x 20 in
"Key Lime Pie" is an original oil painting by Contemporary Realist Megan Eisenberg. This photorealist painting was made with high qu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Al Pacino in the Godfather
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Signed by the artist, this painting of Al Pacino from the film The Godfather is a great conversation piece for any "man cave". It is a lithograph signed by the artist.
Framing optio...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Crucuses, Belgian Original Oil Painting with Flowers by Irina Trushkova
Located in Zofingen, AG
A vibrant blue and white crocuses vase is placed in a smooth, neutral space. I intended to keep the tenderness and preciousness of flowers, a quality I wanted to preserve. The work i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Costa Rica Endless Summer - Oil On Canvas - Landscape Painting By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pocket Striped Bellona Tulip, Original Painting, Flower, Still Life, Plant
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Striped Bellona Tulip is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroqu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buckleys in Switzerland, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certi...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
The Spy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The original painting "The Spy" was created with colourful acrylic paints on a standard canvas. Ideal for your home, living room, dining room, bedroom or office. The size of this ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Notre Dame, Paris' — 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Notre Dame, Paris', etching, 2nd state, 1927. Signed, titled, and annotated '2nd State', in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
In Between
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Challenge
Located in Raleigh, NC
Clipper ship by tge British artist Muchael Beddows.
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pocket Dark Cherries, Original Painting, Food art, Nature, Red, Affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Cherries is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" - Oil Painting of Nude Reclining Female Figure
By Rebecca Venn
Located in Denver, CO
Rebecca Venn's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas paper that depicts a nude female model laying on her back.
This is ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Contemporary portrait "February 2022"
Located in Zofingen, AG
What for?
Yes, I'm alive, I take walks, go to cafes, and even hang out with friends, but inside everything is dead. There are no plans, no hopes, no desires...
One question:
Why?
For...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Cup of coffee and tangerine
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Cup of coffee and tangerine” is a celebration of the beauty that can be found in the simplest of things. The style of the painting is inspired by the Holland masters of the 17th cen...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Palette, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The sky’s reflection in the water is a reminder of the synergetic quality that demands that the branches reach upwards until their weight forces them to look downwards to the life-...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Bee from the top. Paper, mixed media, 30x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bee from the top
Paper, mixed media, 30x21 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utan...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Crystal Light, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
“This colorful composition of the extended tree branches seeks to illustrate the drama and beauty of natural backlighting. The striking understanding of light and reflections compo...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Sunflowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Walter Nelson – American (1942- )
Title: Sunflowers. From the Fleur portfolio
Year: 1981
Medium: Dye transfer color photograph
Sight size: 14.25 ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Dye Transfer
Idyllic Moon Night Landscape Scandinavian Lakeland 19th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Nocturnal landscape exudes a sense of calm and serenity, drawing you in with its Naïve Romanticism manner, captured in oils by an unknown artist in the late 19th century. In the fore...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Momentum, dynamic realistic Horse drawing, charcoal on paper - white box frame
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a dynamic and unique charcoal on paper, framed on a beautiful custom white box frame - all archival materials. The painting perfectly captures the movement of the horse and t...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"TWO MALLARDS" FLYING DUCKS FRAMED 23.25 X 27.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Weston Benson
(1862-1951)
Massachusetts
Image Size: 15.5 x 15.5
Frame Size: 23.25 x 27.25
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Dated 1930
"Two Mallards
Biography
Frank Weston Benson (1862...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Charcoal
Flying ladybug. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flying ladybug
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utans'...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Big dragonfly. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Big dragonfly
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utans' ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Cheerful, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
At sunset, the sky shifts from blue to purple and pink. The sea subtly reflects the ethereal colors from above, adding glimmer to its surface. The soft clouds a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Bee from the side. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bee from the side
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Uta...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Marble Sundae
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming little realist painting of marbles in a sundae glass. Turned up in our inventory, new and never owned. Custom framed and ready to hang. Measu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Wren, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
81
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper,
Year: 2023
Style: Classic Art,
Subject: Wren,
Size: 12 x 16 in...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Spectacle Reef Light/ Lake Huron
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Spectacle Reef Lighthouse" is set in Lake Huron, Michigan. It is a limited edition lithograph 38/500 signed by artist Leo Kuschel who has also remarqued the piece with a commemorat...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Grasshopper. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Grasshopper
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utans' wo...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Quadtych of Pocket Upstar Tulip, Veronique Tulip, Snowdrop 2, Bluebells 2024 art
Located in Deddington, GB
This quadtych includes 4 pocket paintings from Dani Humberstone's spring collection: Pocket Upstar Tulip, Pocket Veronique Tulip, Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells and Pocket Snowd...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Frightened Bay Horse Which Needs to be Treated with Special Care
Located in Charleston, US
Valarie Wolf's "Approach with Caution" portrays a bay horse, possibly startled or cautious, a horse painting which sparks a conversation or contemplation. For horse lovers, this pa...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Realist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Michael Budden, Daniel Pollera, and Su Yu. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist art, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.
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