Realist Abstract Paintings
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
Marlon Brando Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"All I want to be is normally insane. Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
Only the one who walks his own way
can’t be over taken. I watched a snail...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Affectionate sunset over the ocean., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Affectionate sunset over the ocean. Warm turquoise water, sea, ocean, waves, sun glare on the water, clear warm sky, warm sand, beach create an atmosphere of relaxation and romance. ...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dividing Light II, Contemporary Expressionistic Style Painting, Realist Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Dividing Light II [2021]
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Dividing Light II is an original painting by artist Sheryl Roberts. Sheryl has mastered the composition of dramatic light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Margaret Crutchley, Cedar of Lebanon at Sunset, Tree Art, Sunset Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Cedar of Lebanon at Sunset By Margaret Crutchley [2021]
original
Acrylic on a deep canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Wor...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life Rising - Oil On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Poppies, Jegun" Contemporary Impressionist painting en plein air in France
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Poppies, Jegun" is a contemporary Impressionist painting, painted en plein air in rural France.
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. Sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Dolly Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grace Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can c...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elvis Oil on Canvas by Christina Major 66 x 88
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elvis 66 x 88 writing
Whatever I will become will be what God
has chosen for me. I ain't no saint, but I've
tried never to do anything that would hurt
my family or offend God. I figu...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ava Gardner Oil on Canvas by Christina Major 66 x 88
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lava Flow Into Sea - Hawaii - Oil On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cyclic Passage 1 - Oil On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Planes & Cycles - Acrylic On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Modernist Street Scene Trompe L'Oeil Barn Door Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 20H.
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Modernist European Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 29L x 20H.
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"4 Pears still Life with illusions" Soft focus Oil on canvas 42x66
Located in Southampton, NY
This oil painting from 1983 is priced at a fraction of the original price. It was originally priced at $3500 when at the gallery in the D&D building in NYC. It was in our storage a...
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"3 Pears Still Life with illusions" 40x50" soft focus oil on canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
This oil painting from 1985 is priced at a fraction of the original price. It was in our storage area and we just decided to put it on sale at a price which is a fraction of the original price. These still life with illusion paintings were originally sold in New York City at the D&D building on 59th street. It was a building that only interior designers were allowed to shop at. the general public could only go in with their interior designer to select an item. This came from the Haller Gallery in that space. It was originally priced at $3500 when at the gallery in the D&D building in NYC.
It is oil on canvas and in very subtle colors. The top right area of the canvas show slight lines of cracking to the paint. You can see that on one of the close up images.
The pale thick colors (The illusions) give a 3d floating look.
We have another Still Life with 4 Pears also on sale this week.
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloud Series 1
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist
This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually
As an undergra...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled “Meaning of Life”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
George Bernard Shaw (?)26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
“This is the true joy in life, being
used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one.
Being ...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloudscape Series 2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist
This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually
As an undergrad...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fire Balls Forming - Oil On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Acrylic On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cyclic Passage 2 - Oil On Canvas - Abstract 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas by Christina Major Titled Cloudscape Series 1 & 2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting are in images handwritten by artist
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wonder, or The Plane of the Invisible - blue trompe l'oeil oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gesso, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
Felix Culpa, or Must be a Woe - trompe l'oeil oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Continuing his affinity for Malevich’s geometric paragon is Felix Culpa or ‘Must be a Woe,” this time, in red. Three red squares hover above Christ suffering on the cross—one of the most recognizable images in art history—yet here, no wooden cross is in sight. Christ simply floats against a white wall. The three “Red Squares” map the edges of the invisible crucifix, and an old violin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Kakadu
Located in Deddington, GB
A memory of past travels to the beautiful, unspoilt and timeless Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territories. The white egret provides the focal point, flying above the wetlands towards the distant gum trees with their distinctive white trunks. The main colours are blends of blues and greens with a cream strip defining the break between floodplains and land.
Helen Robinson, painter, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Helen Robinson's atmospheric oil paintings represent impressionable moments in her life, mostly inspired by her love of travel and the sea. Following a career in town planning, Helen pursued her interest in art and has now been painting regularly for over 15 years. In 2013, she obtained an Honours degree in Art History when she found she was drawn mostly to artists who painted light. Influences include the 17th century Dutch landscape painters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
A Portrait of the Artist
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed Dimensions: 16 x 16.75 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Season of the Soul, Moon Art, Astrology Artwork, Soulful Art, Realist Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Season Of The Sail by Charlotte Elizabeth [2021]
Original painting
Acrylic paint on canvas
Image size: H:120 cm x W:120 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:120 cm x W:120 cm x D:4cm...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oil on Canvas of Billie Holiday II
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Megiddo
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
New Megiddo, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, titled and dated on the back of the canvas by Thelma Appel
Frame Included: held in original artist's frame
This work, called ...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dawn On Dartmoor, Original Painting, Skyscape Art, Cloud Art, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
An original painting by Sophie Berger.
New original artwork by artist, Sophie Berger is available with Wychwood Art in their gallery and online. Sophie Berger's recent work has been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three handled Vase with Flowers
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Three handled Vase with Flowers, 2003
Original Oil on canvas painting
Hand signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back
Frame Inc...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taking the Plunge (Siberian Tiger), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"The Amur or Siberian Tiger is a truly magnificent animal. His native terrain includes both wooded forest and river shoreline and the Tiger thrives in both. ? I was captivated by the...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Realistic Portrait of Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) from Peaky Blinders
Located in Houston, TX
Black, plum, and green-toned realistic portrait by Houston, TX artist, YAG. This portrait depicts Cillian Murphy, a.k.a. Thomas Shelby in the famous Bri...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Line Code, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
It is an ORIGINAL painting not a print or reproduction or mass produced art! I personally pack my artworks. All necessary arrangements are made to make sure your paintings arrive saf...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sea Birds in Surf
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seascape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Seabirds, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
SHIPS ROLLED. Matting removed.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Impasto Oil Painting of River Tree Scene British Postwar & Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Impasto Oil Painting of River Tree Scene British Postwar & Contemporary Artist, Terry Evans
Terry Evans is a British Postwar & Contemporary Painter born i...
Category
1990s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
A Gentle Breath, Contemporary Original Art, Skyscape Painting, Meditation Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A Gentle Breath is an orignal skyscape painting by Charlotte Elizabeth.
Charlotte Elizabeth is available online and in our gallery at Wychwood Art. Charlotte has been working with paint professionally for over fifteen years. A prestigious training in theatre design preceded a busy career as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in London’s West End...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Raquel Welch Oil on Canvas by Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood
dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is
that m...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
River Landscape Painting with Mountains & Trees by 20th Century Dutch Artist
By Joop Smits
Located in Preston, GB
River Landscape Painting with Mountains & Trees by 20th Century Dutch Artist, Joop Smits (1938-2014)
Art measures 30 x 23 inches
Frame meas...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Newfoundland Landscape (Canada)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful lanscape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
SHIPS ROLLED.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
"Rocky River 9, " Realistic Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original realistic oil painting on linen by John Harris captures a highly detailed, cropped view of water lightly rippling over river rocks...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Streambed III, " River Rocks Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original realistic oil painting on linen by John Harris features an earth-toned palette and captures a close-up view of water rushing over small rocks in a river bed. Toward the...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Riverbed 4, " Realistic Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original realistic oil painting on linen by John Harris captures a close up view of water rippling over rocks in a riverbed. Natural light ...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Oil on Canvas of Brigitte Bardot
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
I leave before being left. I decide.
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life
I never do anything by chance.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Success is unpredictable and fragile."
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Curler, " Realistic Coastal Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original coastal oil painting on linen by John Harris captures a highly detailed view of rolling ocean waves crashing near a shoreline under ...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Annamarie Dzendrowskyj, Twilight - Poland I, Atmospheric Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Annamarie Dzendrowskyj
Twilight – Poland I
Signed by the artist
Original oil painting on linen
Canvas size: H 38cm x W 28 cm
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication o...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Words:
Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together so now he is a legend when he would have preffered to be a man.
the Children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen out world through their eyes they restore my faith in the familys future
One must not let oneself b overwhelmed by sadness
can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly to be living alone as the presidents widow?
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally.
Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Oil on Canvas of Sophia Loren’s Eye II
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas of Sophia Loren’s Eye
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Little Branch, " Realistic Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original realistic oil painting on linen by John Harris captures a highly detailed, cropped, close-up view of water lightly rippling over r...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Clutch for Keys - Realistic Illustration by Michael Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). A wallet with keyring attachments sits on a surface. The wallet is made of folded, stitched leather, su...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Oil on Canvas of Frank Sinatra
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Quotes within painting:
"If you don't know a guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he is just like you. He has the same dreams the same hopes and fears. It's one world pal, we are all neighbors. A big lesson in life baby, it's never be scared of anyone or anything. I'm gonna live till I die. The best revenge is massive success. Don't hide your scars they make you who you are. Fear the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing , self-defeating, sickening thing in this world to an individual or to a nation. It's Billie Holiday who was and still remains the greatest single musical influence on me. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, one is enough. Fairytales can come true, it can happen to you if you're young at heart. I'm for anything and for everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow."
As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
This is a Real Place! 1: large painting of lake or river w/ blue water & bridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"In the series “This is a real place!” I was fascinated by how the underside of the pier at Saint Simons Island, GA was like a readymade collage. The way the pilings and rails divide and frame the spaces between them looks artificially imposed on the scene until you notice the way the waves bounce off the pilings and the railings cast shadows on the water. In some iterations, I chose to simplify the structures of the pier and lighten the values so that it would emphasize the detail in the water. Likewise, I omitted a family of starlings and their droppings in favor of highlighting the geometry of the architecture and the colors and patterns of the water.
Making paintings in a series allows me to investigate the results of making different decisions about an image. How I crop or stylize it, the manner in which I apply the paint, what gets included or excluded all add shades of meaning to each piece. Additionally, depictions of the same subject in different weather, seasons, times of day, and tides allows me a deeper understanding. I notice more relationships, colors, and details every time I paint the subject.
Every painting is a pile of decisions. Playing with removing more and more details to see what is truly important sometimes improves the painting. The fewer elements you include in an image, the more each one means, and the more important it is to get each thing perfect.
At times I like to paint every single detail I can find in a scene, and other times I feel like the unadorned components are sufficient to hold each other in a satisfying composition. I often add simplified shapes to my paintings to highlight the presence of absence or to heighten the importance of each area by creating stark visual contrasts. The physicality of the paint also plays a role. I used highly textured, thickly applied paint to construct the solid structural elements, and luminous layers of thinly glazed paint for the delicate linework and subtle blending of the water." - Brooke Lanier...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pine Board
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal oil painting of a pinewood board with wood knot detail by Anthony Adcock- Oil on copper
**No wood was used in this painting - It is an oil painting on copper panel. Everyt...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Copper
Bay View
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a bright and colorful seascape of a bay beneath a rich blue sky and reaching lavender clouds. A sliver of dark greens depict a thin horizon.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez in lower right corner
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
This is a Real Place! 3: large painting of lake or river w/ blue water & bridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"In the series “This is a real place!” I was fascinated by how the underside of the pier at Saint Simons Island, GA was like a readymade collage. The way the pilings and rails divide and frame the spaces between them looks artificially imposed on the scene until you notice the way the waves bounce off the pilings and the railings cast shadows on the water. In some iterations, I chose to simplify the structures of the pier and lighten the values so that it would emphasize the detail in the water. Likewise, I omitted a family of starlings and their droppings in favor of highlighting the geometry of the architecture and the colors and patterns of the water.
Making paintings in a series allows me to investigate the results of making different decisions about an image. How I crop or stylize it, the manner in which I apply the paint, what gets included or excluded all add shades of meaning to each piece. Additionally, depictions of the same subject in different weather, seasons, times of day, and tides allows me a deeper understanding. I notice more relationships, colors, and details every time I paint the subject.
Every painting is a pile of decisions. Playing with removing more and more details to see what is truly important sometimes improves the painting. The fewer elements you include in an image, the more each one means, and the more important it is to get each thing perfect.
At times I like to paint every single detail I can find in a scene, and other times I feel like the unadorned components are sufficient to hold each other in a satisfying composition. I often add simplified shapes to my paintings to highlight the presence of absence or to heighten the importance of each area by creating stark visual contrasts. The physicality of the paint also plays a role. I used highly textured, thickly applied paint to construct the solid structural elements, and luminous layers of thinly glazed paint for the delicate linework and subtle blending of the water." - Brooke Lanier...
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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