Realist Still-life 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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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Board
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Realist Still-life Paintings
Wood Panel, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1990s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Pencil, Acrylic, Paper
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
1960s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1880s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Board
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
A ripe white peach with dried leaves rests on a wooden surface. Its pinkish-red and yellow skin contrasts with the dark background. Artist Art Tatin used Flemis...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1990s Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
1990s Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
1930s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Metal, Foil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
1980s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil