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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
Girl Sitting On Beach
Girl Sitting On Beach

Girl Sitting On Beach

By Vincente Esparza

Located in Atlanta, GA

Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item includes frame Vincente Esparza was born in Graus, Huesca in 1946. In 1967 he began his studie...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

High Country Sanctuary, Oil Painting, Realist, Signed, Framed Art
High Country Sanctuary, Oil Painting, Realist, Signed, Framed Art

High Country Sanctuary, Oil Painting, Realist, Signed, Framed Art

By Tammy Medlin

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

High Country Sanctuary is an oil on canvas painting by representational artist Tammy Medlin (b. 1969). Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and now based in Mount Pleasant, South Car...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Oil Painting Signed Holly European Tavern Interior Genre Scene, Framed
Antique Oil Painting Signed Holly European Tavern Interior Genre Scene, Framed

Antique Oil Painting Signed Holly European Tavern Interior Genre Scene, Framed

Located in Palm Coast, FL

Original antique oil on canvas signed “Holly” depicting a lively Old World tavern interior with three gentlemen gathered around a table in animated conversation. Executed in the trad...

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Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Plow Field at Dawn in Mountain Landscape 18th Century Antique Large Oil Painting
Plow Field at Dawn in Mountain Landscape 18th Century Antique Large Oil Painting

Plow Field at Dawn in Mountain Landscape 18th Century Antique Large Oil Painting

Located in Stockholm, SE

The painting captures a serene moment on the foothill plateau, just as the day is beginning to wake up. The mountains are still wrapped in a soft blanket of morning fog, giving the s...

Category

Late 18th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

"Adoration of the Magi"
"Adoration of the Magi"

"Adoration of the Magi"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Attributed to Frans Francken II (1581-1642) – "Adoration of the Magi" Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 136 x 162 cm (unframed), 141 x 166 cm (framed) Provenance: Private collectio...

Category

17th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

BE WATER
BE WATER

BE WATER

By DARIA DUDOCHNYKOVA

Located in Zofingen, AG

She floats where silence begins — just beneath the skin of the water. Her form is neither here nor gone, dissolving into rhythm and light. There is no past, no edge, no name — only t...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Hyperrealistic Acrylic Painting 'The Missing Move', 90x120 cm, Signed
Hyperrealistic Acrylic Painting 'The Missing Move', 90x120 cm, Signed

Hyperrealistic Acrylic Painting 'The Missing Move', 90x120 cm, Signed

By Nataliya Bagatskaya

Located in Zofingen, AG

Certain works of art do not describe an event—they preserve its emotional residue. They remind us that the most profound transformations rarely occur in moments of visible drama, but in the quiet intervals that divide life into what existed before and everything that follows. This painting inhabits precisely that elusive territory. The composition presents an interior of remarkable stillness. A young woman, dressed in white and seen only from behind, stands before expansive panoramic windows. Beside her, a black cat quietly shares the moment. In the foreground, an antique billiard table...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers
Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers

Hubert Henrard - 19th Century Belgian Still Life of wildflowers

Located in London, GB

HUBERT HENRARD (Belgium 1816-1898) Still Life with Cornflower and Harebells Signed l.r.: Hubert Henrard Oil on canvas Framed 25 by 20.5 cm., 10 by 8 in. (frame size 41.5 by 36.5 c...

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Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Adoration of the Magi"
"Adoration of the Magi"

"Adoration of the Magi", XVI Century

$63,971Sale Price|20% Off

"Adoration of the Magi"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Attributed to Francesco Mazza, called "Il Parmigianino" (1503-1540) – "Adoration of the Magi" Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 88 x 134 cm (unframed), 205 x 149 cm (framed) Proven...

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16th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kittens at Play, Antique Animals Painting, Cats, Teddy Bear
Kittens at Play, Antique Animals Painting, Cats, Teddy Bear

Kittens at Play, Antique Animals Painting, Cats, Teddy Bear

Located in Grand Rapids, MI

Josef Heimerl (Austrian, 1867-1918) Signed: Jos. Heimerl (Lower, Right) " Kittens at Play ", circa 1900 Oil on Canvas 14 3/4" x 22 7/8" Housed in a 5 1/2" Ornamented Frame in Go...

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Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine Antique European Village Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Elaborate Gilt Frame
Fine Antique European Village Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Elaborate Gilt Frame

Fine Antique European Village Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Elaborate Gilt Frame

Located in New Orleans, LA

A beautifully atmospheric antique European landscape painting, oil on canvas, depicting a quiet village street framed by old houses, mature trees, and picturesque architecture. Datin...

Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

American Impressionist Oil Painting Gustave Cimioti 1875-1969 Marine Monhegan
American Impressionist Oil Painting Gustave Cimioti 1875-1969 Marine Monhegan

American Impressionist Oil Painting Gustave Cimioti 1875-1969 Marine Monhegan

By Gustave Cimiotti Jr.

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Gustave Cimioti Jr. Monhegan oil/canvas board signed LR 15.88 x 19.88 unframed, 21.19 x 25.07 framed Good original condition in period frame. Possibly original Biography: Gustave Ci...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Koko, with her favourite ball
Koko, with her favourite ball

Koko, with her favourite ball

Located in London, GB

Vivian Evans, circa 1907 Koko, with her favourite ball signed and dated ‘VIVIAN EVANS. 1907.' (lower right) oil on canvas 10 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (27.3 x 40 cm.) frame 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55...

Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rose in Glass with Marble
Rose in Glass with Marble

Rose in Glass with Marble

By Leon Olmo

Located in Atlanta, GA

Leon Olmo was born in Moron de la Frontera at the end of the 1940's beginning at a young age to study drawing and wax technique. He currently lives in Castilleja de la Cuesta where he paints out of his studio; a place that arouses the senses and inspires Olmo’s magnificent technique. From heightened stimulation incredible still-lifes are produced from the nearby aromas of lemons, jasmine, pomegranates, and medlars, fruits which often appear throughout his paintings. Olmo is a self-taught painter, reaching the status as one of Seville’s most talented artists through strict perseverence in drawing and painting. Working until complete exhaustion, Olmo attempts to capture all of himself with every image he creates. For Olmo, neatness and cleanliness go hand in hand when creating a work of art. Though he denies traditional academicism, Olmo does utilize a methodical approach in each painting that begins with strict preparation of the fibrapan board upon which he paints. Beginning with a primer composed of calcium sulfate and glue, he sands the board’s surface until smooth. This regimented routine is in accord with Olmo’s insistence of maintaining neatness and cleanliness for he has rejected the use of canvas where any imperfection is not up to standard. He then picks juicy fresh fruits from their trees and retrieves wooden boards from a collection that he has acquired over the years during walks with his father. Arranging the objects for the desired effect, the outcome will be a play of shadows between the background and brilliant center of the composition. With the brush he draws simple motifs and leaves layers of paint until he achieves a magic luminosity, where the observer can actually see through space, a transparent quality distinctly from the hand of Olmo. The recreation of natural elements in his paintings is to remind the observer of humanity’s material nature. The symbolic use of jasmine is special to the artist, in order to represent the grandeur of small things, six petals with an incredible scent which contain within them the magic of the artist and of his Andalusian land. Olmo’s dreamlike masterpieces contain human warmth that has an unsurpassable way of working their way into the hearts and minds of his collectors. Leon Olmo and his son Leon Reina make up a father and son painting...

Category

Early 2000s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Sea Cliff" by Elisabeth Schlup - Oil on Canvas - 70x85 cm
"Sea Cliff" by Elisabeth Schlup - Oil on Canvas - 70x85 cm

"Sea Cliff" by Elisabeth Schlup - Oil on Canvas - 70x85 cm

Located in Geneva, CH

Artwork sold with damaged frame (89.5 x 104.5 cm) or without frame Elisabeth Schlup born 1860, was a Swiss painter active in the early 20th century. Though often referred to as Germ...

Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cold room
Cold room

Cold room

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Cold Room explores the tension between vivid, organic forms and a cool, almost abstract surrounding space. Saturated reds and pinks contrast with pale blues and whites, transforming ...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

White Lily
White Lily

White Lily

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Bring the tranquil and meditative beauty of nature into your home with this original oil painting featuring a stunning white lily. Set against a dramatic, moody dark background, the ...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR

FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR

Located in Ferndown, GB

FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR IN HARBOUR Description Good Condition canvas but very old with some browning in places (see picture). Cleaned ,re-...

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Mid-18th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

View from Il Cellese, Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting, Realism Style
View from Il Cellese, Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting, Realism Style

View from Il Cellese, Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting, Realism Style

Located in London, Chelsea

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. In View from Il Cellese, Jeanette Meehan expands on her exploration of interior f...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Prepare to Celebrate
Prepare to Celebrate

Prepare to Celebrate

By Mian Situ

Located in Pasadena, CA

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Mian Situ" on lower left Description Charged with uplifting energy, this beautiful oil painting by Mian Situ is ...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

St Ives Porthminster Beach, Angela Gordon-Webb, Original Seascape Painting
St Ives Porthminster Beach, Angela Gordon-Webb, Original Seascape Painting

St Ives Porthminster Beach, Angela Gordon-Webb, Original Seascape Painting

Located in Deddington, GB

Angela Gordon-Webb St Ives, Porthminster Beach Original Seascape Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 23cm x W 30cm Framed Size: H 46cm x W 52cm x D 3cm Sold Framed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Porthminster Beach, St Ives through the window, an original seascape painting by Angela Webb. The bright turquoise tones of the sea are dispersed by the faint wisp of the window’s curtains...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Winter landscape
Winter landscape

Winter landscape

Located in Edinburgh, GB

ize: 50x80 cm. “Winter landscape”. Oil on canvas. Ivan Kisil (1896–1971) Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, and master of decorative and applied arts. He studied at the Kyiv Art Sch...

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1940s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm
The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm

The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm

By Normunds Braslinsh

Located in Riga, LV

The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm Normunds Braslinsh (1962) Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia 1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department 1973–1980 Janis Rozentāls Riga Secondary School of Art Has participated in photo exhibitions since 2002 A professional photographer for art editions since 1989 Has participated in exhibitions since 1980 Pedagogical Experience Since 2004 Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art 1998 Associate Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art Since 1997 a teacher at the Master Studio of Figurative Painting, Latvian Academy of Art Since 1988 a teacher at the Drawing Department, Latvian Academy of Art Solo exhibitions 2008 Normunds Brasliņš...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter Sunlight in the Forest 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Artist
Winter Sunlight in the Forest 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Artist

Winter Sunlight in the Forest 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Artist

Located in Preston, GB

Winter Sunlight in the Forest 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Landscape Artist, Wolfgang Heinz (1930–2014). Art measures 32 x 28 inches Frame measures 39 x 34.5 inches ...

Category

Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Dancer's Dream" Large Original Oil Painting by Robert White, Frameless Display
"Dancer's Dream" Large Original Oil Painting by Robert White, Frameless Display

"Dancer's Dream" Large Original Oil Painting by Robert White, Frameless Display

Located in Encino, CA

“Dancer's Dream,” 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 greens, browns, and whites project from the painting, immediately capturing the viewer's attention and highlighting the artist's keen ability to capture emotion and life - all in a brushstroke. White's talent for depicting light and shadow provides the foundation for him to deliver subjects and scenes to the viewer's eye. This masterful work would make a great addition to an art collection and enhance most any home, perfect for those who have an affinity for dancers, the ballet, portraits, and color-rich works of art. In the artist’s own words, “I don’t paint what is inside of me; I paint what I see outside of me. I’m an observer. If I see something and I feel an affinity for it, something just clicks in my head. I’ll make the decision right then and there to paint that particular subject during that particular moment. It’s a perfect moment. Once something has caught my eye and I’ve heard the “perfect” click, it’s like a photograph has been taken in my mind’s eye. I only have a few days of clarity with that image. I have to start the painting quickly or else it will be gone and I will lose that image forever.” Artist: ROBERT KENNETH WHITE...

Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Roosters and Hens in a Barn 19th century E. Binam
Roosters and Hens in a Barn 19th century E. Binam

Roosters and Hens in a Barn 19th century E. Binam

Located in SANTA FE, NM

Roosters and Hens in a Barn 19th century E. Binam (Belgian? 19th century) Signed lower left Oil on wood panel 8 1/4 x 5 /12 (10 1/4 x 13 1/4 frame) Though little is known about E. ...

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1890s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Dreams-original modern abstract landscape trees oil paintings- contemporary Art
Dreams-original modern abstract landscape trees oil paintings- contemporary Art

Dreams-original modern abstract landscape trees oil paintings- contemporary Art

By Kate Salenfriend

Located in London, Chelsea

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Realist art 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 art 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 Slim Aarons, Michael Budden, Daniel Pollera, and Su Yu. 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.