Photorealist 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
Artist: Kimberly MacNeille
"Sunset on Golden Marsh" Large Landscape with Pink/Orange Sky and Setting Sun
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Sunset on Golden Marsh," Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 Inches is a majestic landscape painted with all the elegance and attention to detail of the best of the 19th century Hudson River artists. The warm glow of the top half of the canvas, pink and yellow light diffused through passing clouds, perfectly capturing the setting sun on a summer day is a dramatic foil to the lower half of the painting where meticulous rendering of the marsh's water and greenery is dreamy in the distance.
This painting is beautifully framed in a simple light wood, high quality strip frame that accents the image perfectly without distraction.
Additional photos of painting details and showing the painting installed on a wall can be provided.
MacNeille is an unusually gifted painter of landscapes in general whose works are of the highest quality, always with careful attention to light and time of day. In addition to marsh scenes inspired by her local North Shore of Massachusetts area, she is a painter of beach scenes, water, and Niagara Falls.
KIMBERLY MACNEILLE
Education
1988 -1989 Massachusetts College of Art
1983 University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, Maine
1997 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1990 The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 "Galvanized Truth", The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts 2012 Copley Society,
Boston, Massachusetts
2008 "Theories of Seeing," Boston, Massachusetts
2000 The Wenham Museum, Wenham, Massachusetts
1995 Concord Art Association, Concord, Massachusetts 1993 The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts 1985 Fischbach Gallery...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds" Medium Sized Landscape of Fields and Sky at Sunset
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds," Oil on Canvas, 44 x 40 Inches is a highly realistic landscape in blues, grays, pinks, lavender and white which depicts a sunset over water and a burst ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Waterfall with Spray and Shrubs" Small Landscape with Waterfall, Sky, Greenery
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall with Spray and Shrubs," Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 inches, is a meticulously painted rendition of a waterfall on a summer day. The top half of the painting is dominate...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk" Medium sized Landscape of Winter Scene, Dusk
Located in Wellesley, MA
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk," Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 Inches is a highly realistic landscape of a bank of evergreens covered with snow at the top of a white mountain against th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Waterfall, Spray, Clouds" Small Landscape/Waterscape Sky with Sun
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall, Spray, Clouds" Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 Inches, is a meticulously painted rendition of a waterfall seen from above with bursts of white light in blue sky appearing t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Sea and Sky in Hazy Sun" Highly Realist Large Beach Landscape Purple/Pink/Blue
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Sea and Sky in Hazy Sun," Oil on Canvas, 60 x 46 Inches, is a large beach painting of the shoreline at sunset dominated by a dramatic sky of bl...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"California Field at Sunset" Medium Sized Landscape with Setting Sun
Located in Wellesley, MA
"California Field at Sunset," Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 Inches is a highly realistic landscape which depicts a deep green field and dusky sky punctuated...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Over the Finger Lakes" Aerial Landscape View of at Dusk in Blues and Whites
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Over the Finger Lakes," Oil on Canvas, 40 x 44 Inches is a highly realistic landscape which depicts a series of the fingers lakes in New York State seen from an aerial view in deep blues and greens, with a streak of white light that divides the image into sky with a suggestion of clouds and water...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sea and Sky in Moonlight" Large Photo-Realist Beach Landscape Dark Blue/White
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Sea and Sky in Moonlight," Oil on Canvas, 60 x 46 Inches, is a large nocturne of the shoreline dominated by a highly dramatic sky of deep blues, grays, lavender and white, with bril...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Photorealist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gregory Block, James Zamora, Ian Hornak, and Kathleen Keifer. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Photorealist paintings, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $125 and tops out at $585,000, while the average work sells for $3,772.
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