Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Oil, Cardboard
20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Color Pencil, Acrylic, Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
1990s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Conté
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Lithograph
1990s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Conté
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
1820s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1990s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Conté
1830s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1980s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Digital
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Carbon Pencil
19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Paper
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Pigment
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Paper
19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1850s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Lacquer, Paper, Pigment
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1980s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1880s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Lacquer, Ink, Pigment
1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite, Paper