Photorealist Still-life Paintings
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
Peaches I, Photorealistic Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt
Title: Peaches I
Year: 2013
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Varnish, signed l.r.
Size: 38 x 42 inches
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Oil
Crayon Composition Number One
Located in Boca Raton, FL
OPAC, the Organization of Photorealist Artists and Collectors, presents Cesar Santander Crayon Composition Number One Original Oil Painting
16" x 16" original painting on board.
T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Pure Gold" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sheri Farabaugh's "Pure Gold" is a handmade, original oil painting that depicts the white and golden flowers of a yucca plant blossoming.
Artist Stat...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ken Orton, "Tonic", Photorealistic Colorful Bottles Still Life Oil Painting
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Tonic" is a 36x54 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles. The bottles range in size, color and shape, some of which are filled with red, yellow, green, or blue liquid. The artist chooses to paint larger than life still lives, cropping in closely for more impact. Every detail from the reflections on the table, to the illusion of the raised letters on the bottles, is painted masterfully.
About the artist:
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At the Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain. For the next twenty years he would introduce the concepts of pictorial composition, color theory and draftsmanship to his students. Many of these students would go on to achieve great success in the many branches of the arts, architecture and music and remain close friends with their teacher to this day.
An integral part of Orton’s perspective training for his students was the study of the ellipse. He often used glass cylinders to demonstrate how the perceived ellipses generated by variations in the circle's relationship to the eye-line could be used as a powerful tool in creating the appearance of a third dimension on a two dimensional surface. Later, after he had moved to America in 1999, he discovered a treasure trove of antique mason jars...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Fruit Tarts with a Single Hair
By Marc Dennis
Located in Denver, CO
Marc Dennis is an American artist known for his hyper-realistic paintings that celebrate the subversive potential of art history, beauty and humor.
In his "Desserts with Hair" seri...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Buoys" keepers of the sea in hues of blue and green lean against tired wood
Located in Edgartown, MA
Michel Brosseau was born in Nantes and has lived in Bordeaux for many years. Both cities are on the Atlantic coast of France and have rich maritime histories, highlighted by prospero...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
FADED - photorrealism hyoerrealism original painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Faded' depicts Chinese immigrant woman looking out from the window of her Chinatown home. The building is covered with cascading shadows that are created from the building's metal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"1959 Chevrolet El Camino" (2020) By Shan Fannin, Original Acrylic Painting
By Shan Fannin
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1959 Chevrolet El Camino" is an acrylic painting that depicts the closeup view of the taillights of a red 1959 Chevrolet El Camino
...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"All Dogs, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rachel Linnemeier's "All Dogs" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a purple Tamagotchi toy on a green background.
About the Artist:
Born in 1...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"This Morning She Was Still Flying, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Please note: This painting will ship from the artists' studio in the Netherlands.
Yvonne Melchers' "This Morning She Was Still Flying" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a common pigeon or dove laying face down on a concrete sidewalk.
Artist Yvonne Melchers showcases her mastery of light and form in her sumptuously detailed paintings of subjects both intimate and universal. Whether painting a scene from her beloved North Sea Shore, the portrait of a strong but vulnerable young man dressed for the historical Siena Palio...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Amaryllis. Oil on Linen. Colorful still-life : Flowers, Interior, Plant
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Amaryllis (Title - FR) / In this unique work of oil painting, the artist, who is an adept of contemporary realism and fiction, enjoy painting Interiors spaces and still-lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Paint, Oil
"Flowers with Vessel 4" (2024), Original Oil Portrait by Megan Elizabeth Read
Located in Denver, CO
Megan Elizabeth Read's "Breath" is an original, handmade oil painting created in 2024 depicts a still-life of dark red carnations balanced in a small vase, cast in shadows.
Megan El...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Homage to Redon, Ian Hornak - Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Homage to Redon
Year: 1997
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 20 x 16 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Signed by artist, recto.
Provenance: Estate o...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Tied Up", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Tied Up" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a wood paneled rustic fishing boat with all its gear and fittings...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crane: Large Photo-Realist Painting of Industrial Red Ball & Grey Crane on Blue
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of industrial red ball and steel grey crane on a sky blue background by Joseph Richards
oil on canvas,...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
14th Street (Photo-Realist Oil Painting of Classic NYC Brick Building)
Located in Hudson, NY
Photo-realist oil painting of a classic brick building exterior in New York City
28 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting
Wire backing for easy hanging
Unframed with white painted sides
This contemporary, realistic oil painting of a New York City brick building exterior was painted by Richard Britell in 2019. Employing his mastery of the troupe l'oeil technique, Britell paints the smooth red colored stone building in extreme detail assuming a three-dimensional quality with close attention paid to shadow and perspective. This building is reminiscent of neo-classical architecture, popularized in the mid-late 1800's and the striking red exterior contrasts against the white stone window trim, further accentuating the painting's troupe l'oeil qualities. The painting on canvas is complete with wire on reverse for seamless hanging.
About the artist:
Richard Britell, a career painter, studied at Pratt Institute with Philip Pearlstein and Walter Erlebacher. His first show in NYC at Staempfli Gallery was sold out, and reviewed in the New York Times. Britell’s new works revolve around large, dreamy cityscapes tending toward abstraction. The artist currently lives in Pittsfield, MA.
Born Utica, New York, 1944
Education
1962 – 1964 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1964 – 1966 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY B.F.A.
1970 – 1972 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, M.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 “Measuring the Universe” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “And Now For Some things Completely Different”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “The Figure, The Figure, The Figure and The Figure”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2009 “A nest of robins in her hair” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2007 “NY, NY” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, Ma
2003 “Image and Text” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1999 “From Architecture to Abstraction” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1998 “New Work” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 “New Figures” Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995 “Richard Britell, New Work” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “New Work on Gilded Panel” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Fresco Panels...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Photorealism Still Life Acrylic Painting Flower Photo Realist Orchid, Vivid Blue
Located in Surfside, FL
Close up of a flower. canvas measures 30 X24 inches.
Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo shows throughout the US. He is best known for his work in photorealism and abstract illusionism.
The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. The exactness was often aided further by the use of an airbrush, which was originally designed to retouch photographs. The movement came about within the same period and context as Conceptual art, Pop art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction.
The first Photo realists were Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Audrey Flack, Denis Peterson, Lowel Nesbitt and Malcolm Morley. Each began practicing some form of Photorealism around the same time, often utilizing different modes of application and techniques, and citing different inspirations for their work. However, for the most part they all worked independent from one another. For example, Chuck Close came of age at the height of Pop art and Andy Warhol's Factory, and was based out of SoHo in lower Manhattan. And Audrey Flack, a graduate of Yale, began creating photo-based works in the early 1960s.
Select Solo Exhibitions
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Fl.
Peter Drew Gallery, Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Fl.
Walton Street Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Circle Galleries: Beverly Hills
Matthew Scott Gallery, Miami, Fl.
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Fl.
Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, Fl.
The Palm Gallery, Southhampton, NY.
Norton Gallery, Art Museum of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, Fl.
Select Group Exhibitions
Artist's of the Salon. Armory Art Center Annex. Lake Worth, Fl.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Liman Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl.
Russeck Gallery, New York, NY. (SOHO) and Palm Beach, Fl.
Armory Art Center Annual Faculty Show, West Palm Beach, Fl
Annette Verschragen Gallery, The Hague Holland
Cima Gallery, "City Place", West Palm beach, Fl.
Haste Gallery, Ipswitch, England
Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philidelphia, Pa.
Aliya Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Caribbean Gallery, Key West, FL
R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
E. Street Gallery, Galveston, TX
Richard Danskin...
Category
20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
September 10, 11 East 71: Architectural Oil Painting Realistic Building Exterior
Located in Hudson, NY
30 x 40 inches
horizontal photo realist oil painting on canvas of neo-classical architecture
Mr. Britell's subject matter is drawn from the world of pre-modernist architecture. Wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scripsit No 21 - bright, vivid detail, realist, still-life oil on canvas
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cache of handwritten letters, stamped, and torn open creates a nostalgic composition in this realistic oil painting by Ciba Karisik. Known for his mas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Afternoon Delights
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Afternoon Delights' depicts a historic San Francisco building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the building with an ins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
To Be a Hawk
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Lynette Cook, 'To Be a Hawk', 30 x 24, Acrylic on canvas. One of the artist's new 'To Be' paintings that is a recognition of our urban spaces coexisting with nature. Diving deeper, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Title: Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 39 in. x 48 in. (99.06 cm x 121.92 cm)
Frame Size: 40.25 ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paper and Rope, Framed Photorealist Oil Painting by Lourdes Leon
By Lourdes Leon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lourdes Leon, Mexican
Title: Paper and Rope
Year: 2002
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 28.5 x 29 inches
Frame Size: 35.5 x 36.5 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ladew Topiaries" (2024) By Adrienne Stein, Original Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Adrienne Stein's (US based) "Ladew Topiaries" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting.
About the artist:
Adrienne Stein (b. 1986) is an award winning artist living and working...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light Lavender Iris, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Light Lavender Iris
Year: 1984
Medium: Oil on linen
Size: 40 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the arti...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Berries and Cream" Photo-Realist Still Life 3 Fruits in Glass Compote on Blue
Located in Wellesley, MA
Mary Ellen Johnson is internationally recognized as one of the top Photo Realist painters working today whose extraordinary area of expertise is large-scale, unimaginably realistic, stunningly beautiful and delightful images of food. Currently available is this gorgeous bowl of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries with whipped cream, a mouth-watering slice of cherry pie with vanilla ice cream, an equally amazing strawberry parfait sundae, and a delicious slice of cherry cheesecake:
Mary Ellen Johnson
"Berries and Cream"
Oil on Wood Panel
24 x 20 Inches
Note: This painting is framed in white wood.
The artist has also completed many commissioned food paintings including the Canadian Government's request for images of 5 of Canada's favorite foods which subsequently became stamp images - and The Cheesecake Factory's two commissions for their corporate headquarters and the owners' Malibu beach house.
A quote from the artist:
“I make the panels large to give a monumental feeling to the painting when viewed. These large images not only confront the viewer with their size but with their tremendous sense of extravagance. My work explores the deep connection that food has with humanity.”
Mary Ellen Johnson
Johnson further describes herself as a ‘Precision Realist’ whose primary subject is food. Sold works include paintings of PB & J sandwiches, pancakes with blueberries and syrup, banana splits, ice cream, hot dogs, cupcakes, waffles, muscles and sushi, among others. Unequaled for their brilliance and dramatic depictions of mundane subjects with their connotations of nostalgia, comfort and tradition, it is also her scale, cropping and over the top technical skill that renders these works so overwhelmingly appealing!
MARY ELLEN JOHNSON
Born: 1967, West Long Branch, NJ.
Education: 1989, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Beth Urdang...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mark of Zorro / acrylic painting
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Photorealistic still life street scene that features an American flag and resist sticker in the window of a home. Brown with red, white and blue. The street numbers are 8102 (2018 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Heirloom / oil on linen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Persimmons, cobalt blue table linens and silver are the focus of this elegant and dramatic still life. Colors include silver, orange and blue. Photorealist oil painting on canvas. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Mini Macintosh 2-original impressionism still life oil painting-contemporary Art
By James Zamora
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Mini Macintosh 2" by James Zamora stands as a captivating tes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Square / yoga - oil on cancas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman doing yoga, stretching, leaf, torn paper color composition featured in this delightful still life oil on canvas painting. In this series of trompe-l'œil oil paintings, Willard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Texas Exotic, Large Painting by Bill Wiman
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American (1940 - )
Title: Texas Exotic
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 56 x 59.5 in. (142.24 x 151.13 cm)
Frame: 57 x 61 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Backstage / oil on linen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Theatrical reflective and feathered objects dramatically lit, sitting upon a wooden table with a black background. Colors include silver, red and black with touches of yellow and bro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Linen
'Still Life with Grapes' Contemporary painting of Silverware, Coffee pot & Fruit
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary Still Life painting 'Still life with Red Grapes' is a beautiful composed work that would sit in any interior setting. Higueras has added such fine detail to every inch of the canvas.
At the age of 21, in 1994, when the dexterity in his hands reached...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Space Traffic
Located in Boca Raton, FL
OPAC, the Organization of Photorealist Artists and Collectors, presents Cesar Santander Space Traffic Original Oil Painting
18" x 24" original painting on board.
This is a unique,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Calabazas, Still Life Oil Painting by Armando Ahuatzi, 1995
By Armando Ahuatzi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando Ahuatzi, Mexican
Title: Calabazas
Year: 1995
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 18.5 x 27 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 37.5 inches
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
No.22
Located in Fairfield, CT
Candid, straightforward paintings of various vintage objects. Depicted with painterly realism, natural styling and subtle, quiet narrative.
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Spirals, colorful ribbon and candy, super realism neutral toned background
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint on canvas colorful whimsical
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goldfish With Matisse Detail
Located in Boca Raton, FL
OPAC, the Organization of Photorealist Artists and Collectors, presents Cesar Santander Goldfish With Matisse Detail Original Oil Painting
16" x 16" original painting on board.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wrapped Package and Irises, Photorealist Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bold Abstract painting by Chilean-born artist Gustavo Schmidt. The red colors seem to jump off the blue background in this oil painting.
Wrapped Package and Irises
Gustavo Schmid...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rain on Windshield", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Rain on Windshield" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cascading pattern of rain drops on a windshield that partly obscures t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vegetables, Photorealist Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Vegetables
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76....
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Strawberry Glaze" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Strawberry Glaze" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pink glazed donut.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986 and moved t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Clementine & Roses Still Life photorealist painting of vase, flowers and fruit
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Clementines & Roses' is a fabulous example of Lijftogt's work. Such amazing eye for detail is what makes this piece such a knockout piece. A beautiful colour palette has been used t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Silver Circus, hyper realistic colorful painting w/ abstract qualities
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our pe...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bouquet", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's "Bouquet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts pink rose blooms with baby's breath and green foliage with a contrasting black background.
About the ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
RAM C&N RR -Steel Bridge, Chicago Skyscraper, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
I’ve always been attracted to the built environment. Bridges are a great subject. Each one is specially engineered to solve the problem of how to get across the void. While usually n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spools of Ribbon, bright red, turquoise super realism
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on Canvas, bright color
Doug Newton’s hyper-real oil paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light ca...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Into the Deep" (2024) by Karina Rodríguez, Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Into the Deep" is an exquisitely detailed contemporary still life by Karina Rodríguez, rendered in oil on panel in 2024. This artwork is framed in a simple, black frame and is ready...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Sticky Bun" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Sticky Bun" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pastry topped with candied pecans and sticky glaze.
Gregor...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ken Orton "Camwal", Bottle Still Life Photorealistic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Camwal" is a 54x36 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles. The bottles range in size, color and shape, the most prominent of is the middle Camwal bottle. The window in the background adds depth and interest to the composition, and the rusty orange bottle color compliments the subtle soft blues and greens within the clear glass. The artist chooses to paint larger than life still lives, cropping in closely for more impact. Every detail from the reflections on the table, to the illusion of the raised letters on the bottles, is painted masterfully.
About the artist:
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At the Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain. For the next twenty years he would introduce the concepts of pictorial composition, color theory and draftsmanship to his students. Many of these students would go on to achieve great success in the many branches of the arts, architecture and music and remain close friends with their teacher to this day.
An integral part of Orton’s perspective training for his students was the study of the ellipse. He often used glass cylinders to demonstrate how the perceived ellipses generated by variations in the circle's relationship to the eye-line could be used as a powerful tool in creating the appearance of a third dimension on a two dimensional surface. Later, after he had moved to America in 1999, he discovered a treasure trove of antique mason jars...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fish, colorful, oil painting, super realistic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint on canvas
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Trio" (2022) By Dianne L. Massey Dunbar, Original Oil Still Life Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Trio" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of a McDonald's meal.
About the artist:
When Di...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Flowers with Vessel 5" (2024), Original Oil Portrait by Megan Elizabeth Read
Located in Denver, CO
Megan Elizabeth Read's "Breath" is an original, handmade oil painting created in 2024 depicts a still-life of dark red carnations balanced in a small vase, cast in shadows.
Megan El...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Stack One (Parlor), " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Stack One (Parlor)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tall stack of five glazed donuts, with toppings, piled on top of each other.
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Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peaches II, Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt
Title: Peaches II
Year: 2007
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Varnish, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 28 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Oil
Ora Sorensen, "White Rose", Photorealistic Flower Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ora Sorensen
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This hyperrealist floral "White Rose" by artist Ora Sorensen is a 36x36 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a portrait of a blooming white rose ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Realist Trompe L'Oeil Kitchen Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredibly well painted American realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chocolate Cruller" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Chocolate Cruller" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cruller pastry covered with a chocolate glaze.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Photorealist still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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