Realist Still-life Sculptures
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
Hyperreal Blue Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Blue hyperreal glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
These hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resemble real wa...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Pink Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pink hyperreal glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
These hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resemble real wa...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Lemonade Yellow Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal lemonade yellow glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etc...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Blue Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Blue hyperreal glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
These hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resemble real wa...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Green Lagoon Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Emerald green glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez. 100% hot sculpted glass.
Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Green, Pink & Purple Glass Balloon Sculpture Set
Located in East Quogue, NY
Set of 3 hyperreal glass water balloon sculptures by Dylan Martinez. Made of 100% hot-sculpted glass.
Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glas...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Limited Edition Glass Goldfish Water Bag Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Inspired by popular demand, these limited-edition hyperreal goldfish cracker glass water bags are a playful nod to the carnival goldfish in plastic bags.
Created with molten glass ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Light Purple Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Light purple glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resembl...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Goblets XXV, Sweet wrapper art, contemporary wall sculpture, conversation art
Located in Deddington, GB
Goblets XXV is a signed original wall sculpture made from sweet wrappers by Joanne Tinker of a selection of colourful wine goblets on a black shelved frame.
Joanne Tinker wall sculpt...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Foil
"Ground Zero" Bronze German Shepherd Dog Searching for Survivors
Located in Brookville, NY
This sculptor is not only an artist, but a vetrinarian. She knows anatomy as well as she knows breeds and behaviors.. This beautiful bronze depicts a German Shepherd Dog searching ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #16
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #8
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Ceramic, Swarovski Crystals, Wall Sculpture of Crow Head
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #15
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Dance of Balance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Hidden Layers
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Bronze, Stainless Steel
Guidance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Bronze, Stainless Steel
Altered Perspective
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Tidal Balance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
In the Currents
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Natural Plane
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Continuum
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
little hand-forged olive tree in one piece sculpture - black wrought iron
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
The Olive tree's unique piece forged in wrought iron is not replicable. It was created by one of the most significant contemporary worldwide artist-blacksmith. He is Italian.
Fixed...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Iron
#1911 Einstein Gorilla (cut out sculpture)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. This work is about what I do while I write letters and think about all these urgent, global concerns and feel frustrated and powerless. I drin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, PVC, Oil
#1913 Rooster Brothers (cut out sculpture)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery -- This work is about what I do while I write letters and think about all these urgent, global concerns and feel frustrated and powerless. I dri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, PVC, Oil
#1724 Gang of Four (cut out sculpture)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. This work is about what I do while I write letters and think about all these urgent, global concerns and feel frustrated and powerless. I drin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, PVC, Oil
Boat with Stormy Sail
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mix...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Medium Sail Boat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mix...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Sail Boat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mix...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Boat with Sunset Sail
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mix...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Italian Big Scale Hand Carved Table Top Wood Lion Sculpture
Located in Firenze, IT
This 19th century big scale Italian animalier sculpure features a lion striding forward on a root-wood base, snarling with open mouth and expressive eyes enlivening its rippling mane with an extremely realistic sense of motion. The wooden statue, wonderful as a table top, is entirely hand carved in the round in a single block of solid olive wood, sign of high quality and sculptural artisanal mastery. An original whimsical and impressive centerpiece clearly sculpted by a true artist who carved the block of wood creating this figure of the proudest feline boasting a detailed study of the lion's anatomy.The features on the face, mane, muscles, tail and the paws are still distinctive and full of character as well as the beautifully carved stand. This sculpture boasts smooth surface and a warm patina developed over centuries and exudes wonderful quality and timelessness of the ancient world. The rich original patina brings further intrigue to its intricately carved details.
This hand carved wooden lion statue is a great looking antique centrepiece...
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19th Century Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bronze and steel sculpture by David Kimball Anderson 'Untitled 1'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Untitled 1' by David Kimball Anderson, 2021. Bronze, steel, and paint, 18 x 8 x 8 in. This sculpture features a rounded vase cast in bronze and finished in patinas of grey. It featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Cane Corso Dog Bust, Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Cane Corso is an Italian breed of dog, for years valued highly in Italy as a companion, guardian and hunter. This bronze bust is a loveable, lifelike r...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Donut - Unique 3 foot Large Frosted Donut with Sprinkles sculpture/sign
Located in New York, NY
Donut with Sprinkles - Large three foot Unique Colored Donut with Sprinkles sculpture. This donut has a mounting point ready for a wall or floor mount. This donut was originally ma...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
St Paul's Cathedral
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A new work by the artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Summer Transits
Located in White Plains, NY
“Summer Transits” by David Kimball Anderson, 2017. Bronze, steel, and paint, 22½ x 14 x 6 inches. This sculpture features a square vase in a bright red patina. The flowers are painte...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Bronze
Realist still-life sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist still-life sculptures 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. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Susan Jane Belton, David Kimball Anderson, Dylan Martinez, and Joanne Tinker. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Steel 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 still-life sculptures, so small editions measuring 6.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $804 and tops out at $7,671, while the average work sells for $3,000.
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