Florian K Lawton
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Interior Paintings
Oil
1990s Photography
Silver Gelatin
Antique 1830s French Louis XVI Paintings
Canvas, Paint
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
1920s Art Deco Interior Paintings
Jute, Oil
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Oil
Antique Late 19th Century English Paintings
Wood
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Gouache
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Signs
Metal
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
A Close Look at realist Art
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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Finding the Right landscape-drawings-watercolors for You
Landscape drawings and watercolors show the world through the lenses of different cultures and perspectives. They were also incredibly important for displaying natural scenes before the invention of photography.
There are many ways to effectively arrange art on your walls so that you’re maximizing your wall space. You can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of a living room or bedroom if landscape drawings and watercolors are part of the art that you choose to bring into a space.
Watercolor landscapes have a rich history dating back to ancient China, where they dominated painting genres by the late Tang dynasty. Ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and by the Renaissance, watercolors had made their way to the West and into European culture, becoming a staple of decorative art.
It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that watercolor paints became more widely available and embedded in fine arts. Despite their broad distribution today, some artists have chosen to revive the old craft of preparing their own watercolor pigments, paying homage to the medium’s roots.
The variety of brush combinations and painting methods makes watercolor landscapes some of the most stunning pieces in any collection. Find landscape drawings and watercolors on 1stDibs.