Photorealist Landscape Prints
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.
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
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1960s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Printer's Ink, Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Photogravure, Lithograph
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Mezzotint
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Metal
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Etching, Aquatint
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Dye Transfer, L...
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1890s Photorealist Landscape Prints
ABS, Photogravure
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Offset, Lithograph
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Giclée, Canvas
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Lithograph, Color, C Print, Phot...
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Etching
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Emulsion, Photogram, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Etching, M...
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Paper, Watercolor, Color, Giclée
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1920s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Digital Pigment
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Digital, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Etching
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen, Paper
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen, Paper
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen, Paper
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1960s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Paper, Etching
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Metal
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Etching
20th Century Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
2010s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Canvas, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints
Paper, Etching
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen, Paper
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Metal
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
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1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints
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