Ship GLORY OF THE SEAS
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Carl G. Evers was an artist with a very impressive body of work who deserves more attention in the
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Ship GLORY OF THE SEAS
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Carl G. Evers was an artist with a very impressive body of work who deserves more attention in the
Paper, Watercolor
$8,850
H 26 in W 23 in
Clipper at Sail - Running with the Wind, Marine Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Naples, Florida
Carl Georg Wallin (Sweden 1893-1978) Carl Wallin was born into a sea faring family in a small fishing village on the Southernmost tip of Sweden. His father was a ship's capt...
Oil
$6,392
H 27.5 in W 23.5 in
OIL PAINTING By LOUIS DODD 20th CENTURY NAVY / MARITIME PIECE GOLD GILT FRAME
By Louis Dodd
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE 20th Century Piece By Louis Dodd SEASCAPE British old master oil Style painting in a Gold Gilt Frame Description “condition is very good for age , one or two small marks ,pro...
Oil
$3,500
H 12 in W 16 in D 4 in
“Ship at Full Sail”, post-impressionist seascape of Clipper ship, oil on canvas
Located in Naples, Florida
Michael Stephanon (b. 1937) A well executed oil on canvas painting of a clipper at full sail by the Scandinavian artist Michael Stephanon. Although there are very few recorded det...
Canvas, Oil
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 30 in
English 20th century portrait of an English Frigate in full sail at sea in oils.
Located in Woodbury, CT
English 20th century portrait of an English Frigate in full sail at sea in oils. A very well painted oil on canvas with great detail of a ship cutting through the sea at I'm sure gr...
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of The Ship Plymouth Rock
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Duncan McFarlane. This excellent ship portraitist began his life's work in Liverpool. It is believed that he later sailed to America and was employed in the capacity of a ship and ...
Canvas, Oil
$4,055
H 31.5 in W 27.5 in
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR IN HARBOUR Description Good Condition canvas but very old with some browning in places (see picture). C...
Oil
$70,901
H 25.79 in W 29.14 in
Shipping in Stormy Waters, Attributed to Italian Artist Francesco Guardi
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Stockholm, SE
The splendour of the tragic sea Francesco Guardi and maritime painting in Venetian art No Venetian painter was a stranger to the sea. After all, Venice was not only one of the mos...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 24.25 in W 30.25 in D 3.5 in
'Historic Sailing Ship, ' by Unknown, Oil on Linen Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 19th c. classically realistic oil on canvas painting depicts the majesty of a large sailing vessel on the sea against a light blue sky filled with white cumulus clouds. A gentle...
Linen, Oil
$32,000
H 24 in W 36 in
"Mighty Ocean" Oil Painting by Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973)
By Montague Dawson
Located in New York, NY
Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973) Mighty Ocean oil on canvas signed Montague Dawson (lower left); titled and inscribed (on the stretcher) 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4cm) Provenance...
Oil
The Clipper FLYING FISH in San Francisco Bay
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
One of the most exciting races between American clipper ships took place between October, 1852 and January, 1853. The vessels involved were the crack clippers FLYING FISH, JOHN GILPI...
Canvas, Oil
$3,505
H 54 in W 38 in D 1 in
Large Scale Maritime Painting -- Three Masted Braque in Rough Seas
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large scale painting of an early 20th century Braque sailing ship named "Medusa" by Charles Miller (American, 19th/20th Century), 1926. Signed and dated lower left corner. C...
Linen, Oil
19 century Maritime Painting with Schooner at Sea (Restored)
Located in San Francisco, CA
19 century Maritime painting with schooner at sea No visible signature Restored 17.25 x 31.25 unframed, 24 x 38 framed
Oil
$2,850
H 14.75 in W 3 in D 18.5 in
J.G. Tyler late 19th century Seascape with ship and boats
Located in San Francisco, CA
J.G. Tyler late 19th century Seascape with ship and boats. Oil on canvas board. 8 x 12 unframed, 14.75 x 18.5 framed.
Oil, Board
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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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 paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original 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.
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