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Photorealist Art

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
PALM BEACH American PHOTOREALIST Rolls Royce Hyper Realist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale, I have a large Photorealist painting by Contemporary artist Clarence Measelle The painting is very large and depicts a Palm Beach street view through a Rolls Royce sid...
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1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Roanheads Scotland 2, oil on birch panel, rural arcitecture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original oil on birch-wood panel is a signature work of Roanheads, Scotland by painter and master print-maker Agnes Murray. Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil, Panel

Paeseggio Urbano, New York City (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1956, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
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1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Surprised Wood Duck - Photorealistic Bird Portrait, Yellow Background
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with such exacting detail it is hard to believe a human hand can be so exacting. This piece is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 15 x 18 inches. Rick Pas The Surprised Wood Duck acrylic on panel 12h x 15w in 30.48h x 38.10w cm 15h x 18w x 1d in (framed) RPA023 ARTIST'S STATEMENT Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 57th Juried Exhibition Wild Wings, Lake City, MN, Fall Festival 2000 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Birds in Art (Also 1983-85, 1987, 1992, 1994) Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, Midwest Winter Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, National 2000 1993 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wildlife: the Artist's View (Also 1990) 1992 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks (Also 1990) 1989 College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

TANNER, ALMOST SPRING
Located in New Orleans, LA
THIS VINTAGE SILVER GELATIN PRINT IS FROM AN EDITION OF 3. The photograph of Tanner were originally shot on a Polaroid Land 360 from my series ‘Diary Non Diary’. Sebastian Perinotti...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tick Tock Diner, Photorealist Silkscreen by John Baeder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Baeder, American (1938 - ) Title: Tick Tock Diner Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Size: 22 x 30 in. (...
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1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled 030 (Hammer and Iron)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series. Each work measure 24" x 24' and comes framed in a silver meta...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reflections Huge Original Oil Painting by Photorealist Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
One cannot appreciate this huge painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing. A collector should consider several factors when deciding from whom to purchase artwork online. Check the location of the seller. When one buys from a foreign seller, one also has to consider the problems of getting the piece through Customs. There are often delays and considerable fees to pay in order to import the item. When purchasing from us, we ship the same day and you receive it via FedEx the next day, no problems or hassles. When one purchases from an auction house, one pays a buyer’s premium of anywhere from 23% to 28% over the “hammer price”. So when one “wins” an auction for $20,000, the actual price paid is more like $25,000. By contrast, when purchasing from us, the price agreed to is the price paid by the buyer, no hidden fees. Secondly, when one purchases from an auction house, the buyer pays the packing and shipping fee, which are usually exorbitant. By contrast, when purchasing from us, the price includes packing and shipping. About Mark Schiff -- Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica. Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism. Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete. Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad. Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wonder Woman (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 24/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Oil Well, Screenprint by Tom Blackwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Blackwell, American (1938 - ) Title: Oil Well Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Paper Size: 30 x 22 i...
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1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

"Luminalia" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky. Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wax

Minimalist Pop Art Oil Painting – White Inflated Condom with Soft Reflections
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This minimalist pop art oil painting captures a delicate white inflated condom reimagined as a luminous bubble, floating on a serene, pale background. Using refined oil techniques, t...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shady Hollow Motel, Green River, Utah, US Highway 50
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on three shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper

TULIPS IN CYCLINDER VASE
Located in London, GB
Kate Felton Hall lives and works in Suffolk, East Anglia. She works primarily in oil on linen and paints landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Kate’s floral paintings are all done from life. She captures the light, colour and beauty of each individual bloom with her own unique style. Her Thamesscapes and Harbourscapes are based on the horizon lines of the coastal communities of Suffolk and the Thames in London. Kate creates her flower paintings exclusively for ArtDog London. Kate studied at Reading University, she worked as an advertising Art Director in the Creative Department of Saatchi & Saatchi London, moved into Graphic Design, before going back into Fine Art. She created the original Childline identity with Esther Rantzen; Free John McCarthy...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Buds and Leaves, photorealist graphite floral drawing, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly explores the full tonal depth of graphite in her nature drawings and landscapes. She finds all of the soft subtleties of gray as she shifts seamlessly from leaf to bud, s...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Little Italy, Gumball Machine - Photorealist Screenprint by Charles Bell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Bell, American (1935 - 1995) Title: Little Italy Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen on White Somerset Satin, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...
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1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

ARCHITECTURE - Photograph on baryta paper, Bob De Masi, Italy 1970s
Located in Napoli, IT
Black and white photograph on baryta paper, title "Architecture" 1970s - Bob De Masi, with frame
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1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Going Forward - Trees, Nude, Women, Landscape, Green, Plants, Figurative
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Going Forward, 2023 Oil on canvas 88 H x 70 W cm 34 41/64 H x 27 9/16 W inches This oil painting, "Going Forward" by Carmen Belean, captures the essence of serenity and natural beau...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Field of Flowers 1, photorealist graphite floral drawing, 2016
Located in New York, NY
Reilly uses a toning technique to endow her graphite works with a smooth, seamless quality. Rather than distinct outlines, her flower petals glide gracefully into the surrounding spa...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

Bryce (View of Osaka, Japan from city's tallest building is in background)
Located in New Orleans, LA
THIS VINTAGE SILVER GELATIN PRINT IS FROM AN EDITION OF 3, Bryce was taken in Osaka, Japan at Abeno Harukas, Japan’s tallest building. The photograph was shot on 35mm film on a Contax T3 Sebastian...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Owl/Búho". Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, anim
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, animal
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Calls in the Manitou Passage - Photorealistic Painting of Bald Eagle Screeching
Located in Chicago, IL
A male bald eagle screeches to be heard above the stormy backdrop of Lake Michigan's Manitou Passage in Northern Michigan. Extraordinarily painted with such realistic detail, this majestic bird's feathers beg for the viewer to come in for a closer look at its plumage. The piece is framed in a simple black wooden frame measuring 31 x 51 inches. Rick Pas Calls in the Manitou Passage acrylic on panel 28h x 48w in 71.12h x 121.92w cm RPA022 ARTIST'S STATEMENT Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Silver placer., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Silver placer. Blue water, waves, serene views, ocean shine, glare on the water create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a permanent series ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Marilyn Monroe . Marilyn Monroe sexy back . The last sitting
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern Marilyn Monroe sexy back Mythical photo of the last session (1962) inkjet printing by bert stern 2011 signed on both sides certificate signed by the artist during his lif...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Tulips III, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Original artwork by Carlos Bruscianelli, Venezuelan Realist painter based in USA. This painting is my fourth consecutive floral work, part of my new collection, something differen...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

The Cast Shadow
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Joseph McGurl. Framed.
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Willie Nelson by Ebet Roberts
Located in Austin, TX
Willie Nelson at The Palladium in NYC on December 11, 1980 by Ebet Roberts. Signed limited edition, hand printed silver gelatin print. Ebet Roberts began her career in 1977 when sh...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Monarch Butterfly, Photorealist Screenprint by Fran Bull
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fran Bull is a first generation Photorealist whose compositions are based on photographs including natural reflections of glass, water and other surfaces. Monarch Butterfly...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

Cold Beer (with coca cola sign) iconic photorealist lithograph, Signed/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Two Color Offset Lithograph on Wove Paper by photo realist star Robert Cottingham Pencil signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 150 on the front This hand signed, titled and...
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1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Between Guests, Tower of London, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I noticed this lovely young lady in period costume, out of the corner of my eye, at the Tower of London. Whether she was a guide working for the Tower of London or a leader of a priv...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

Red Poppies, Photorealist Flower Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red Poppies Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 37.5 x 29.5 inches Paper Size...
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1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

Joseph Piccillo Dancer Hyperrealism Black and White (Dancer with Chick) Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original graphite, oil paint and collage on canvas by American contemporary artist Joseph Piccillo.
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite

"Mickey Pin" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nick Leibee's (US based) "Mickey Pin" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an enamel pin of Mickey Mouse, the beloved Disney character,...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Hampshire Garden I, Dylan Lloyd, Original Floral Oil Painting, Realist Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Hampshire Garden I by Dylan Lloyd [2021] original Oil paint on board Image size: H:30 cm x W:24 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:24 cm x D:2.5cm Framed Size: H:40.5 cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Board, Oil

"Bicycles III", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Bicycles III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the layered view of red bicycles and gears, in profile, locked to a bike rack...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

Magnolia Angelic, Allan Forsyth, Contemporary Luxury Statement Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Allan Forsyth MAGNOLIA ANGELIC Limited Edition Floral Print Archival Chromagenic Photographic Print Edition of 25 Artwork Size: H 76cm x W 228cm x D 2cm Diasec Framed and Ready to Ha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Metal

Tulips II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My work "Tulips II" is part of a new series of paintings inspired by different types of flowers, it is an opportunity to deeply study their textures and colors. During my career a...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

Shabbas Candles, Modern Portrait Lithograph by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977) Title: Shabbas Candles (Green) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 136/150 Image Size: ...
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1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pelican's Prize
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1948 What is “sharp focus” drawing? Put very simply, it is a rendering with refined, precise line and tone to create a lifelike representation of the subject matter. It...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Dragon Dreams - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival paper 35x52"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white nude photograph of a model on black background. Her distorted reflection in the inner water surface reminds some mysterious creature. Original gallery qua...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Antique American Trompe L'Oeil Corn Still Life Original Realist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school trompe l'oeil corn still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Possibly faintly signed lower right. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 22"L x 24"H.
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20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liesenbruken, Abandoned Train Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A bridge to nowhere has been taking no one there for almost 70 years. The Liesenbrücken bridge has been rusting with iron will and doing little else since it was abandoned in favor o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orgasm - underwater photograph - print on paper 35" x 45.5"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A striking underwater fine art photograph captures a floating figure in a crimson dress against a deep black background. The composition masterfully blends contemporary underwater ph...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

China - 21st Century, Flag, Red, Pink, White, Great Wall of China, Pagoda
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
China, 2010 Oil on canvas (Signed, front right middle) 14.96 H x 18.11 W in. 38 H x 46 W cm. The contemporary society is seen as an "extra-wrapped" society by the artist Mihai Flore...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tennis Shoes - Framed Contemporary Pink Figurative Fashion Shoes Diptych Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in 1982 in Manzanillo, Cuba, artist Darwin Estacio Martinez honed his artistic skills at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" in Holguin, and furthered his education ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Garden Sounds, Oil Painting on Linen, Interior With Landscape View, Bird
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with oak wood stain finish. Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Manon Cleary "Rat"
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...
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1990s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Two Picardie Glasses, colorful, photo realistic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. Hi...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Seanergy I -original modern realism waterscape painting -contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Seanergy I" captures the visceral power of a wave mid-crash, i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3 Musketeers-original impressionism still life oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "3 Musketeers" by James Zamora is a delectable journey into th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Oil, Board

Bird of Paradise, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a small work, made with oil paints on a panel, my intention was to analyze the texture of one of my favorite flowers, the Bird of Paradise, the background is a landscape insp...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

"Anonymous Collaborators", Hyper-realistic, oil painting, graffiti landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 30in x 30in. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, Californ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

At the Edge of Reality IV- original, modern realism seascape-still life painting
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This oil on linen creation measures 40x40 cm and bears the tit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Ten Lollipops, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is composed with colorful Tootsie Roll lollipops in a glass canisters. The studio lighting is set up to create wonderful shadows cast onto the surfaces. An interesting ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil

Still Life with Grapes, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph print by Lowell Nesbitt from 1975. A colorful still life that combines both organic and geometric elements. Still Life with Grapes Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–...
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Lithograph

Square Java-Photograph
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Coffee in a square mug. Measures 8 x 10 inches and is Unframed. Also available: 5 x 7 inches.
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Pequena Italia (Little Italy) NYC
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ogni Giorno, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Brand new painting entitled Ogni Giorno, Italian for Every Day. Inspired by a trip to Agrigento, Sicily. It shows a man working in a supermarket. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Acrylic

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