Kseniia Kokovashina
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography
Photographic Paper
People Also Browsed
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Vintage 1970s American Modern Prints
Other
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Vintage 1930s American Folk Art Toys and Dolls
Tin
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Archival Pigment, Rag Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Prints
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
2010s Conceptual Nude Photography
Archival Pigment
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Rag Paper, Black and White
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Photographic Film, Pi...
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Rag Paper, Black and White
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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