Realist Still-life Prints
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 Prints
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Etching
Late 18th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Engraving, Mezzotint
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Digital
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
1930s Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Woodcut
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Etching, Aquatint
1990s Realist Still-life Prints
Etching
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Canvas, Mosaic, Acrylic
1990s Realist Still-life Prints
Woodcut
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Etching, Intaglio
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Color, Etching, Aquatint
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Mixed Media
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Color, Etching, Paper, Watercolor, Aquatint
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Paper
Early 19th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Aquatint
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen, Pencil, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
1990s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Digital
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Digital
1930s Realist Still-life Prints
Etching
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph, Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Giclée, Lithograph
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Paper, Ink, Etching
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Mezzotint
Late 18th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Engraving, Mezzotint
19th Century Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Mulberry Paper, Photographic Paper
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Archival Pigment
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Screen
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Canvas, Archival Ink
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Archival Paper, Giclée