Realist Landscape 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
Soon At Night, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Island, Original Landscape Painting, 2016
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
My painting studio is cold.
It's January/February in Massachusetts.
So I painted a cold picture...
Keywords: Winter, Island, Snow, Trees, snow, lake, ice, refle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Street Light, Original Landscape Painting, 2013
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Dark, raining and the street light silhoettes 2 birds.
Keywords: bird, street light, street, black and white, painting, creepy, eerie, halloween, scary, white, bl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Title Surge, Original Acrylic Painting, 2016
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Red and black work so well together. Saw this striking photograph and had to put it on canvas. The large frame is jet black.
Keywords: Abstract, geometric, white,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chemin du Perche, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hommage a Oscar Wilde, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
La sieste sous le laurier
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
When the Night is Revealed, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
What do you think? Right side or Left side?, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A Drink in Elliot Street, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Norco Gateway
By Errol Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed sized is 16 x 20 inches. Framed in a white oak frame.
In any landscape there are places and objects of quiet monumentality so ingrained into the scene that they are nearly invisible or regarded only as ordinary or outdated artifacts of the past. Some are small in scale, and some suggest a kind of architectural grandeur mixed with a pathos stemming from their obsolete utility and the evidence they bear of the passage of time. Some, like the abandoned oil rigs in and around the Gulf of Mexico, are poignant reminders of environmental optimism and tragedy.
Primarily encountered on trips around our region, stretching up as far as the delta of northwestern Mississippi and southeastern Arkansas and as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi, these places and objects evoked the curiosity and affection, which prompted this show. The paintings, the result of a labor-intensive technique requiring many layers of color, are intimately sized though they often deal with subjects of great scale.
Trained as an architect and a practicing architect until 2016, Barron now works primarily as a painter. For many years he has taught at the Tulane University School of Architecture and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Louisiana Architects Association and in 1995 was awarded the prestigious Gabriel Prize from the Western European Architecture Foundation.
Errol Barron...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Beef & Lobster
Located in Belfast, GB
Beef & Lobster
Oil on Canvas
18 x 28 in
45.7 x 71.1 cm
"Growing up in the countryside, he developed a great love and appreciation for the beauty of nature around him, which evidentl...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Simple Pleasures
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Devotion
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cupcakes and Trees
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Runoff
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,200
Calvin's Jeans
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Place in the Sun
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Commute
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to produc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,600
New Street, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Abalone, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Along the East River, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Karen Woods, Along the East River, 2017, oil on linen, 9 x 17.5, $2,800.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Knotta Road Glen 2, Framed
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PENISCOLA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
RAMBLA DE BARCEONA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ATARDECER EN COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BLANES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$958
ROSAS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$958
CADAQUES
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,377
MIKONOS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
MIRANDO AL MAR
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,197
PESCADOR
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,377
REGOGIENDO LAS BARCAS
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Triptyque Paravent ¨Nymans avec Noemi¨, 2015
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
That the Night Show Begins, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
I was born in 1972 in Chartres. I live and work near Orleans. After having taken courses at the Beaux Arts in Orléans in drawing of live models, sculpture and painting, I decided to devote myself entirely to painting.
Education
ARTISTIC APPROACH:
When the day fades, the truth appears in the light of the twilight. The whole being, invaded by the padded silence of the advancing night, sees his humanity bend under the awakening of his senses. He becomes again more instinctive, more animal, more true in the beauty of his solitude ... and the return to nature that the twilight imposes, then sends him back an exact image of himself...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Iron Mountain" by Daniel Sprick, Original Oil Painting, Colorado landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Sprick's "Iron Mountain" is an original oil painting featuring a scenic landscape from Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
About the artist:
"Upon first glance, viewers might thin...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floral Still Life in Cameo Pot
Located in Missouri, MO
Floral Still Life in Cameo Pot
Franz Leitgeb (Austrian, 1911-1997)
Signed Lower Right
33 x 27 inches
40.5 x 34.5 inches
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Floral Still Life in Fluted Bowl
Located in Missouri, MO
Floral Still Life in Fluted Bowl
Franz Leitgeb (Austrian, 1911-1997)
Signed Lower Right
33 x 27 inches
38.5 x 32 inches
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Baruch Farm
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939
Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Children at the Seashore
By Josef Israels
Located in Missouri, MO
Children at the Seashore
By Josef Israels (1824-1911)
Unframed: 9" x 15"
Framed: 17.5" x 23.5"
Signed Lower Left
Born in Groningen, Holland, in 1824, Josef Israels was brought up in the traditions of the Jewish faith and destined for the rabbinate. His interest in drawing grew stronger with age however, and in 1840 his father finally relented, sending him to Amsterdam. There he spent his days working in the studio of Jan Kruseman and his evenings painting at the Royal Academy under Jan Pieneman, both leading portrait painters. In Paris, Israels studied a short time with the historical painter Francois Picot...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
"Filipino Girl Coming Down the Steps", 19th Century by Artist Fabian de la Rosa
Located in Madrid, ES
FABIAN DE LA ROSA
Filipino, 1869 - 1937
"FILIPINO GIRLO COMING DOWN THE STEPS"
signed & dated "F. de la Rosa, 1894" (lower right)
oil on canvas
42-3/4 x 23-3/4 inches (108 x 60...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Filipino Farm Workers in Horse Carriage" 19th C. Oil on Canvas by F. de la Rosa
Located in Madrid, ES
FABIAN DE LA ROSA
Filipino, 1869 - 1937
FILIPINO FARM WORKERS IN HORSE CARRIAGE
signed & dated "F. de la Rosa, 1894" (lower left)
oil on canvas
42-3/4 x 2...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape - Oil on Canvas by A. Donghi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1937.
Original title: Paesaggio.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
Inclu...
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Chatfield, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Sprick's "Chatfield" envelopes the viewer in the silent beauty of winter's embrace, kissed by the hues of days end.
About the artist:
"Upon first glance, viewers might think Daniel's works are photographs because of their stunningly realistic elements. However, the longer we look at one of his paintings, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world. We encounter Sprick's paintings not so much as statements, but more as experiences, whereby we engage deeply with his creativity. - Timothy J. Standring, exhibition curator and Gates Foundation Curator at the Denver Art Museum. Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works includes more than 30 examples of the Colorado artist's portraiture and still life paintings that blur the line between realism and abstraction. His meticulous representation of everyday objects and stirring interpretation of the human form provide viewers a new way to look at the world.
Born:
May 1, 1953, Little Rock, Arkansas
Education:
AA-Mesa College, Grand...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Western Panorama with Sculpture of Native American Warrior
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on two joined canvases
Signed and dated, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York C...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sierra Grandeur; 5th Lake View of Mt. Robinson and Palisade Glacier
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by a Private Collector, Encino, California from American Legacy Fine Arts in 2005
American Legacy Fine Arts acquired the work directly from the artist in 2004
De...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Malibu: Point Dune
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered, a rare, original oil painting, "Malibu: Point Dune", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his ...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Italian Afternoon
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered, a rare, original oil painting, "Italian Afternoon", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his l...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
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