Toda Men
1980s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Board
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Mixed Media, Board, Canvas
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1980s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Realist Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ballpoint Pen
1980s Realist Paintings
Acrylic
People Also Browsed
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Persian Rustic Persian Rugs
Wool
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Etching
20th Century Moroccan Bohemian Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Art Glass
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Persian Tribal Persian Rugs
Wool
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Late 20th Century Moroccan Bohemian Moroccan and North African Rugs
Wool
Vintage 1970s Moroccan Moorish Textiles
Brocade, Braid
20th Century Glass
Art Glass
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vases
Blown Glass
Late 20th Century Moroccan Bohemian Moroccan and North African Rugs
Wool
1970s Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel
1950s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Vintage 1970s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vases
Art Glass
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1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Board
1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
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A Close Look at realist Art
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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