Realist 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
River's Edge (River Otters), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"The North American River Otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge. Their strong tail and elongated body make it a terrific swimmer. On land they prefer life on the shores of lakes, marshes and streams. This pair had been playing in the water and pulled out onto the river bank to dry off...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled [Seascape] Original Oil Painting by Robert White, Frameless Display
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled [Seascape], an original oil on canvas by Robert K. White, is a piece for the true collector. White’s careful attention to detail and vivid use of blues, blue-greens, and bro...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Stillness (Great Blue Heron), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"I am lucky enough to back onto a body of water where I can watch Heron fishing stepping carefully around the beautiful lily pads. I always marvel at the patience the Heron has as h...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Shadow and Light, Pasadena Arroyo
By Calvin Liang
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Description
An impressionist, plein air oil painting, depicting back-lit (contre jour) sycamore trees in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco. The tranquil scene displays a play of dappled light and shadows projected...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Entering Beaver Meadow; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
By Brian Blood
Located in Pasadena, CA
Consigned to the gallery by H&N Fine Art as part of the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection
FRAMED: 25.75" x 29.5" x 1.125 UNFRAMED: 19.5" x 23.75
Exhibited
Early California Mas...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Laguna, Painting, Oil on CanvasLaguna, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
from the series "Virtual model", oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm, 2020. I like to create imaginary worlds. Using the modeling software I invent virtual simplified realities, probably t...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lynch, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jo Beer
Located in Yardley, PA
Portrait of artist / film maker David Lynch. Lynch is a keen transcendental meditator, so I decided to give him a back ground of Tibetan clouds, they match his eyes and provide a ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
London Panorama - Greenwich Shoreline, cityscape art, urban art, Thames art
By John Duffin
Located in Deddington, GB
John Duffin is a painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern environments of cities and towns, creating dynamic, cinematic images of contemporary urban life. His unique images of architecture, lighting and figures have been greatly praised and awarded, recently receiving The Most Outstanding Print Award from Sir peter Blake, he has a distinctive artistic voice and has much to say in his work about contemporary life in all of it’s manifestations. His work is in the tradition of LS Lowry in Britain and Edward Hopper in America and like these artists he creates unique views of contemporary urban life, a combination of his ability as a draughtsman, his imagination and his personal use of perspective and colour. He makes drawings and watercolours in front of his chosen subject and takes these sketches back to his London studio where he creates from them his own imaginative interpretation of the site, recreating the place anew via his own imagination. His work is redolent with influences from cinema, graphic novels and the history of figurative painting, but from this comes a vision that is his alone.
London Panorama...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Honfleur fishing port oil on canvas painting french mediterranean seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) - Honfleur fishing port - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x38 cm.
Frame measures 66x58 cm.
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell
Year of birth: 1932
Bio...
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beautiful Sunset, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Charles Choi
Located in Yardley, PA
Life sketch series at China Academy of Arts. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cupcakes and Trees
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. 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 i...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oil landscape with Horse in old master realist style by Hans Guerin, framed
By Hans Guerin
Located in Charleston, US
The horse portrait, "Trot", is an oil landscape with a beautiful white horse painted by Hans Guerin, a descendent of the founder of the respected Schuler ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Honey Persimmons
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Small format realist still life by well-known Ukrainian painter, Victoria Kalaichi.
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vedutist Venetian painter - 19th century landscape painting - Venice view
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (c. 1850) - View of Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
40 x 63 cm without frame, 49 x 70.5 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in an antique giltwood frame.
Condit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devotion
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. 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 i...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ocean Beach Seascape Study Oil Painting Children Playing Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
A study oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a unique composition of life on the beach on a summer day created in an impressioni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christmas Trees on Guard, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Winter mountain landscape with Christmas trees. Frosty blue and white colors allow you to feel the freshness of the mountain air. The rows of Christmas trees that stand neatly with e...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boundary Bay (Snowy Owls), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Visitors from the north to Boundary Bay, Vancouver this young pair of Snowy Owls take a rest before resuming their journey." Patricia M. Mansell Artist :: Painting :: Realism :...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mountains 1989. Paper, watercolor, 11x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
"Mountains" is a watercolor artwork created in 1989 on paper. The dimensions of the artwork are 11x21 cm. The painting focuses on depicting a scene of majestic mountains.
Watercolo...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Line Code, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
It is an ORIGINAL painting not a print or reproduction or mass produced art! I personally pack my artworks. All necessary arrangements are made to make sure your paintings arrive saf...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian landscape View of bay from foothills 19th century Large oil painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed: Augusto Corelli (1853 - 1918). Superbly and professionally painted Italian landscape. A narrow path, an alley hanging over it with centuries-old oaks, a sea bay...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Inside and around the glass, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
« I try to express fascination with artistic form, triumph of phenomenon, beauty of textiles, and attraction to the boundless variability of human body shapes and psychological mean...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Сountryside landscape Well pole or Shadoof Acknowledged Polish-Russian master
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left: Iosif Evstafievich Krachkovsky (1854 - 1914), and dated lower right - 1910. Summer View Of Well pole or Shadoof / sweep somewhere in Ukraine (due the specific wicker fences design). A hot summer day that causes thirst, water quenches it. Water, a symbol of life at all times. The well depicted in this painting. source of water and hence the source of life. Symbolism and philosophical overtones in this painting is the main message of the artist to us... Oil painting on canvas pasted on cardboard, framed, early 20th century.
Size app.: 45 x 33 cm (roughly 17.7 x 12.99 in), framed by 56 x 44 cm (roughly 22.04 x 17.32 in). Very Good condition, age wear, canvas pasted on cardboard. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker than on our pictures, appearance also depends on sufficient light in your room.
I. E. Krachkovsky - Polish-Russian landscape painter...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Bouquet in a Landscape
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. 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 i...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Realistic Wildlife Landscape Painting Bald Eagle Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Autumn Majesty, Bald Eagle
oil/panel 1989
24 x 36 image in an original Walter Skor hand made frame.
I found and purchased back one of my favorite wild life paintings done back in 198...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mr Bacon, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jo Beer
Located in Yardley, PA
Portrait of the late British artist Francis Bacon. A fairly youthful Bacon sits lost in thought in his studio. I decided to sit him in front of one of his pieces from that era, I l...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chair Series 5, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Charles Choi
Located in Yardley, PA
one of my chair series painting :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
To Be at Home on The Earth
Located in Detroit, MI
The root chakra is located at the base of the spine. It is a grounding force that activates our connection to the earth and other earthly beings. In opposition to the floating subjec...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Resin, LED Light, Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
"Afternoon Light" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Afternoon Light" is an oil painting that depicts a reclining male figure, wearing rings.
Linda Adair is a contemporary fig...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Pacific Sunset Waves, Contemporary Cyanotype on Paper, Navy Blue, Beach House
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Pacific Sunset Waves" is an original cyanotype that abstractly shows the sunset reflections on the sea.
Details:
+ Titl...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Lithograph, Monop...
Pink evening. Ocean., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pink evening. Ocean. sunset, warm water, ocean, sea, small waves, sun reflection, clear sky, create an atmosphere of relaxation and romance. Made in the style of realism, impression...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peonies and Star Gaze Lilies
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artis
FRAMED: 27.75" x 14" x 2"
Artist Statement
“I enjoy portraying the natural character of birds, while placing them in unusual settings. In this painting, the South American Blue-Grey Tanagers, whose natural habitat lies east of the Andes, are seen here playfully perched. One is atop the frame looking inward, another sits on the stems of an arrangement of pink peonies and star gaze lilies, and the third is resting on a pair of figs. They are not in a cage, but freely flying about, although set in a niche as precious objets d’arts. The composition of the trio of birds allows the viewer to see the scene from every angle, and the complementary pink and blue colors make the overall subject pleasing and tender.”
—Mary Kay West...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Orange Mimosa, Realist Still Life, Sweet Beverage, Slate Gray, Kitchen Scene
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Orange Mimosa" is a contemporary still-life painting that features a chic display of a cava bottle and a jar of mimosa as the focal point. The cava bottle is elegantly shaped, with ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
Solving the Problem
Located in Washington, DC
Signed lower left
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gill Gallery Study
By Warren Chang
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery from the artist
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
The Flash - oil on canvas painting - by Blend Cota
By Blend Cota
Located in Montreal, Quebec
During my travels across North America to various comic cons, I heard a common question from fans, “When are you going to paint The Flash?” It never failed; ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Beach Impressionistic Moonlight Seascape Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
An oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful moonlit sailing evening created in an impressionistic realism style. The image...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Seascape Ships off Saint Vaast la Hougue Masterwork Ferdinand Perrot
Located in Stockholm, SE
Highly informative and masterly painted picture off coast scenery was done by acknowledged French master Ferdinand Perrot (1808-1841), also the name of the artist is written as: Ferd...
Category
1830s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Reading - Nude Female Portrait Oil Painting, Realistic, Polish artist
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Isolation, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a statement about all of those who are isolated from their family due to the pandemic. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an of...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swoosh III, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is the third in my serious of paintings of a girl swimmer swinging her wet hair up out of the water with a trail of water flying behind it. :: Painting :...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nica" is the goddess of victory from Greek mythology
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
On the right side from below and behind
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sizzle by Ali Mourabet, Contemporary art, Original art, Figurative art
By Ali Mourabet
Located in Deddington, GB
Sizzle [2020]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H:80 cm x W:80 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80 cm x W:80 cm x D:2.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
A bird's eye view of sunbathers on the beach with matching multi-coloured parasols
Ali Mourabet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dining Out (Sea Otters), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Making use of a rock to open the shells, this pair of Southern Sea Otters are enjoying a feast of clams as they gently glide through the water. Bu...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Letter, late 19th c, American, Realism, oil on panel, figural, the forest
By Samuel S. Carr
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Samuel S. Carr was born in England in 1837. He studied at the Royal School of Design in Chester before immigrating to the United States around 1862, where he settled in Brooklyn, New York. He began exhibiting genre paintings in the 1870s. He was known for his paintings of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects.
Carr was a member of the Brooklyn Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pink Bottle Display, Modern Still Life, Silhouette Transparencies Tan Background
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Pink Bottle Display" is a contemporary still-life painting portraying a set of bottles and cups in pink tones against a classy beige background.
Details:
Title: Pink Bottle Display...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
Pocket Yellow Plum by Dani Humberstone, Small Scale Art, Realist, Still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Yellow Quince by Dani Humberstone [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:5 cm x W:5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:5 cm x W:5 cm x D:3cm
Frame Size: H:16 cm x W:16 cm x D:3.5cm
Sold Framed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Pocket Yellow Quince is an original oil painting bay Dani Humberstone as part of her pocket fruit series.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magic Realistic Painting, "Lisbora"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on canvas by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 40" x 30" x 1.5". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A necklace - Nude Female Portrait Oil Painting, Realistic, Polish artist
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Key West, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Miami local portrait surrounded with graffiti, in Key West. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to H...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Scaffolder #2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Hard-edge realism. Scaffolder in silhouette against a sunset. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Beth Parcell, "Winter Hunt", 9x12 Snowy Equine Fox Hunt Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This snowy scene, "Winter Hunt" is a 9x12 landscape oil painting on canvas depicting a fox hunt on a winter day. Huntsmen wearing red coats atop their horses among a snow cover fiel...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glare on the water 8., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Glare on the water 8. Ocean shine, small waves, sun glare on the water create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism, impressionism, using a brush and pal...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Club Soda with Sandwich, Contemporary Still Life Diner Scene, Food and Beverage
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Club Soda with Sandwich" is a contemporary still-life painting that depicts a classic diner scene with a modern twist, featuring a sandwich and soda...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
Bearing the Light, original 28x24 realist equestrian landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Bearing the light, this elegant, white horse, commands respect as he gallops freely down the mountain towards the meadow below. So gracefully he establishes his dominion over this equestrian landscape. This realistic depiction of power and grace has been painted by professional portrait artist Joseph Sundwall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pears
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Small format realist still life by well-known Ukrainian painter, Victoria Kalaichi.
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magic Realistic painting, "The Beauty Machine"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on canvas by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 40" x 30" x 1.5". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Animated landscape with sheep and shepherd
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Michael Budden, Su Yu, Olga Antonova, and Mark Hunter. 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 Realist paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.
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