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Manson Blair

Original Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
By Manson Blair
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of a River Landscape in County Tyrone, Ireland, by Irish Artist, Manson Blair
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Oil Painting Slemish Mountain County Antrim Ireland by Irish Artist
By Manson Blair
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting Slemish Mountain County Antrim Ireland by Irish Artist, Manson Blair Art
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mother & Child at a Beach on West Coast of Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
By Manson Blair
Located in Preston, GB
Mother & Child at a Beach on the West Coast of Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, Manson Blair
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Paint, Canvas, Glass

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Original Oil Painting of Snow Landscape in Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
By Manson Blair
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of Snow Landscape in Ireland, by Irish Artist, Manson Blair. This piece would
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Oil Painting of the River Dun in County Antrim Ireland by Irish Artist
By Manson Blair
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of the River Dun in County Antrim Ireland by Irish Artist, Manson Blair Art
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Oil Painting of a Woodland Scene in the English Countryside by British Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of a Woodland Scene in the English Countryside by 20th Century Modern British Artist, James Wright Art measures 30 x 16 inches Frame measures 36 x 22 inches This 198...
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Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Cottage in a Lush Garden with Hens in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Cottage in a Lush Garden with Hens in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Terry Heath (1943-2011) Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 26 x 22 inches S...
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1980s English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of a Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside by 20th Century Irish Artist, Ray Cochrane. Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 30 x 24 inc...
Category

1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beech Trees with Figures in a National Trust Forest in Northern Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Beech Trees with Figures in a National Trust Forest in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Artist, Allan Ardies (1918 - 2014) Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 29 x 23 inche...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky. Vintage Original Oil Painting by 20th Century Irish Artist, Louis Humphrey. Humphrey was born in 1955 in ...
Category

1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Serenity at Dawn - beautiful misty morning at a River in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Serenity at Dawn - a beautiful misty morning at a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Spencer Coleman. Unique Vintage Original, Oil on Canvas, Signed. A...
Category

1990s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Rural Mountain Scene with Sheep in Ireland by Post War Modern Irish Artist
By David Overend
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Mountain Scene with Sheep in Ireland by Post War Modern Irish Artist, David Overend. Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 25 x 21 inches David Anthony Overend was bor...
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Impressionist New York Artist H F Saloman Oil Painting Winter Brook
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
H F Saloman Brook In Winter oil/board 11.50 x 15.50 unframed sight size, 19.25 x 23.25 x 2.5 framed American, 1914-2000 Early 20th century H.F. Salomon American Impressionist landsc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

River Landscape with Rain Clouds in Ireland by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist
By John S Haggan
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of a River Landscape with Rain Clouds in Ireland by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist, John S Haggan (1946-2021) Art measures 20 x 16 inches (good condition) F...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist
By Tom Stephenson
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist. This original oil painting is an early example of the more traditional work of Irish Artist Tom Stephen...
Category

1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Italy Mediterranean Landscapes Marina Flandre
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
We present this pair of fascinating coastal views, the fruit of the author's imagination, executed with an elegant descriptive taste and conceived with the scenographic sensitivity t...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting of Irish Countryside Scene with Cathedral in the distance Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of a beautiful Irish Countryside Scene with Down Cathedral in the distance, Northern Ireland Art measures 12 x 16 inches Frame measure 16 x 20 inches William Cunningha...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting of a Cottage on the Rugged Cliffs & Coastline of Northern Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of a Cottage on the Rugged Cliffs & Coastline of Northern Ireland Art measures 22 x 16 inches Frame measures 34 x 28 inches Presented in a large gold frame with cre...
Category

1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Serenity over the Bridge - Lake Scene with Lush Green Trees by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Serenity over the Bridge - Lake Scene with Lush Green Trees. Vintage Oil Painting by British Artist, David James. Art measures 12 x 16 inches Frame measures 17 x 21 inches The p...
Category

1970s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer Fields, Michigan Artist, American Impressionism, Landscape
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Mathias Alten (German/American 1871-1938) Signed: M. Alten (Lower, Left) " Summer Fields ", circa 1914 Oil on Canvas Laid on Board 10" x 14" Housed in a 2" Carved Newcomb Mackl...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
By Andrew Grant Kurtis
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands with two boys fishing with their dog, by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art mea...
Category

20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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 Figurative-paintings for You

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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