Vintage Adirondack Map
1970s Realist Vintage Adirondack Map
Watercolor
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Vintage Adirondack Map
Oil
1830s French Louis XVI Vintage Adirondack Map
Canvas, Paint
1920s Art Deco Vintage Adirondack Map
Jute, Oil
Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Adirondack Map
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Late 19th Century English Vintage Adirondack Map
Wood
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Vintage Adirondack Map
Oil
20th Century Abstract Vintage Adirondack Map
Woodcut
20th Century Impressionist Vintage Adirondack Map
Canvas, Oil
1950s Modern Vintage Adirondack Map
Lithograph
1950s American Modern Vintage Adirondack Map
Gouache
20th Century Modern Vintage Adirondack Map
Gouache
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Vintage Adirondack Map
Paper
20th Century Vintage Adirondack Map
1980s Pop Art Vintage Adirondack Map
Linen, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Adirondack Map
Canvas, Oil
1960s North American Vintage Adirondack Map
Canvas, Wood, Paint
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.
Find authentic realist paintings, sculptures, prints and more art on 1stDibs.
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.