Realist Landscape Paintings
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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1870s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
At an intersection in Santa Monica, silence holds sway beneath a rapturous composition of clouds at sunset.
About the Artist
Jesse’s scenes of Los ...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1880s Realist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Inspired by a twilight he witnessed, artist Jose Luis Bermudez captures the setting sun on a natural landscape. Bathed in su...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Artist Comments
A tall palm tree stands against an evening thunderhead, illuminated by the warm glow of the setting sun. Carefully blended colors capture the essence of the dra...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
17th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Wood, Oil, Canvas
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Wood, Oil
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1870s Realist Landscape Paintings
Wood, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Board
1960s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Oil
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Sir David MurrayThe Clyde from Darleith Moor above Cardross - Scottish art Victorian landscape, 1881
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Board, Egg Tempera
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel