Animated Olympic Rings
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
People Also Browsed
2010s Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Wood Panel, Oil
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Gold Leaf
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Jon BlanchetteOn Broadway, Santa Cruz, Southern California, 1950s Landscape Oil Painting, circa 1955
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Paper, Printer's Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Color, Digital
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1950s Italian Posters
Paper
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Wood
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1950s American Sporting Art Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Leather
Artist Comments
A young woman wearing a matching gray dress and boots stops in the middle of a city street. Her eyes widen as she looks back on something that caught her atte...
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Oil Pastel, Linen, Oil
Vintage 1940s Argentine Art Deco Bottles
Glass
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Pastel, Aquatint
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Bronze
Recent Sales
2010s Classical Roman Signet Rings
Carnelian, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mark Schiff for sale on 1stDibs
A Close Look at Photorealist Art
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.
Finding the Right Paintings for You
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract, landscape and still-life paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by popular artists and more today.