Photorealist Landscape Paintings
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
“Scompte”, 12 pieces, Canvas, Painting
Located in San Jose, CR
Argentine artist Viviana Zargón shows us these empty, uninhabited spaces. Their enormous skeletons put into sharp relief the economic and social collapse of the modernist dream. From...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Calumet Vista - Iron and Steel Girder Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a spiderweb like red iron girder beam steel bridge. Roland has always been fascinated by the built environment. Reflecting on what the structures tell about t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rocks in the Current - Original Photorealist Painting of Dragonflies Atop Stones
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with extraordinary detail, this moment in nature is captured in Rick Pas' unique style. Four brightly colored green dragonflies sit atop river stones as water gently moves b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Yellow Ferrari", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 54", Photorealism Painting
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Yellow Ferrari" is an oil on canvas that measures 36" x 54". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic depiction of Ferrari 599 GTO outside the Casino Monte-Carlo in...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
STACKS 714 - quiet light blue painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Quiet Seascape Painting - Landscape - Light Blue - White - Sky
"Jack Flynn conjures weightless scenes in oil with a deep attention paid to both the mute stillness of his chosen sett...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night", Sorin, Photorealism, French, Landscape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night" by Sorin is a 30x40 inch original oil on canvas. The painting captures a photorealistic night view of the medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Peregrine City - Photorealist Painting of a Peregrine Falcon in an Urban Setting
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Every detail in this extraordinary painting is rendered with exacting care. It is not unusual to find these majestic predatory birds amongst the skyscrapers and bridges of our cites...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Rt. 30 - Caledonia, PA
Located in New Orleans, LA
An astonishing work of photorealism. I think it speaks for itself, right? In fact, it's probably hard to tell from the pics that it's not a photograph. The artist, Jim Thomson, has p...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Serie Saguas 5“, Canvas, Painting
Located in San Jose, CR
Argentine artist Viviana Zargón shows us these empty, uninhabited spaces. Their enormous skeletons put into sharp relief the economic and social collapse of the modernist dream. From...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
June Twilight
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes
Year: 2002
Medium: Oil on Panel with artist painted frame
Size: 42 x 31.5 inches
Co...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Hampshire Summer Garden, Dylan Lloyd, Original Floral Garden Landscape Painting
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Hampshire Summer Garden by Dylan Lloyd [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:40 cm x D:2.5cm
Framed Size: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midnight Wish II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Evening Blossom Drift
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on brushed aluminum
One of the most powerful tools an artist possesses is an ability to bridge the gap between what is considered real and what is illusion. This ability to ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Metal
"Hotel Negresco, Nice", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 47", Realism
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
"Hotel Negresco, Nice" by Oleg Turchin is 30x47 inches and oil on canvas. This realist depiction of the famous Hotel Negresco located on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie de Ange...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Michigan Barn #6
By Michael Ward
Located in East Hampton, NY
My second painting of a barn outside of Traverse City, Michigan.
Michigan Barn #6
Acrylic on Canvas
14" x 18"
2018
About the Artist:
Michael Ward began his artistic career doing p...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stanford University Memorial Church, Hand Tinted 1930s Color Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed hand tinted color landscape photograph of Stanford Memorial Church produced by Bear Photo Service (American, 1930s). Photographer is unknown. Numbered 904 bottom righ...
Category
1930s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Oil, Photographic Paper
Nautical Seascape Triptych of Crashing Wave in Los Angeles, Exclusive Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
This gorgeous triptych shows a vigorous crashing wave off Los Angeles Coast.
Details:
+ Title: Los Angeles Crashing Wav...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Ken Otsuka "A Million Years" Realistic Rocky Beach Ocean Waves Oil on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This realist beach and water scene "A Million Years" by artist Ken Otsuka is a 24x30 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts an ocean shore on a bright sunny day. Th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Against the Wind" photorealist oil painting of sailboats on turquoise ocean
Located in Edgartown, MA
Michel Brosseau was born in Nantes and has lived in Bordeaux for many years. Both cities are on the Atlantic coast of France and have rich maritime histories, highlighted by prospero...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a ref...
Category
1950s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blind Orion, Variation III
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Blind Orion, Variation III
Year: 1977-1980
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 44 x 66 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, and t...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
55 - quiet blue sky painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Quiet Blue Sky Painting - Landscape - Clouds
"Jack Flynn conjures weightless scenes in oil with a deep attention paid to both the mute stillness of his chosen settings and the bold ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primeval Landscape
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Primeval Landscape
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 59 1/2 x 43 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Provena...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Times Square Splash - original cityscape landscape realism contemporary artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary realist painter Michael Steinbrick captures a showery perspective of a street scene. Delicately and precisely rendered droplets are illuminated with neon pastel hues whi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stolen childhood - Portrait Painting Red Yellow Green White Black Blue Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
Dear clients,
Thank you so much for your interest to the art of Maestro Marina Dobrovolskaya.
The artist Marina Dobrovolskaya has escaped the war in Ukraine and she is safe with her...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Canvas, Oil
The Quarry (Scotland)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: The Quarry (Scotland)
Year: 1983
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50 x 72 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated, a...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
LA HACIENDA
Located in Seattle, WA
Photorealistic painting of urban setting | cityscape of SoDo Seattle | oil on canvas | 36" x 60"
"My studio in San Francisco is located amongst decaying buildings on an abandoned na...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Scarlet Blue Macaw,” Photorealism, circle of Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Scarlet Blue Macaw
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on Panel with artist painted frame
Size: 58.5 x 42.2 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Sign...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Tulips of the Red Stars
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Tulips of the Red Stars
Year: 1988
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Size: 52 x 42 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated,...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mum II - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, City Scape, Women, Street Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SECRET BEACH - quiet light blue water painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Quiet Seascape Painting - Landscape - Light Blue - White - Water - Beach
"Jack Flynn conjures weightless scenes in oil with a deep attention paid to both the mute stillness of his c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Eden," Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Eden" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lush canopy of trees draping the landscape in shadows as foliage grows below and flowing stream...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Transparent Barricades, Variation V, Winter Light
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Transparent Barricades, Variation V, Winter Light
Year: 1995
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Si...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Silver Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, (Ocean waves)
Located in New York, NY
Chris Armstrong’s hypnotic, masterly and often photographic renderings and paintings of the sea, waves, light and the ocean in general are highly acclaimed by the art community. This...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coconuts of Haiti
Located in Haverstraw, NY
Esperanta Delmat in this beautiful 36"x24" acrylic on canvas painting depicts the exotic coconuts in the Caribbean, especially in Haiti.
Esperanta Delmat is an artist born in Haiti...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Welle No.13 - wave waterscape natural seascape oil painting realism hyperrealism
Located in London, Chelsea
This original realism artwork by Jean-Pierre Kunkel presents a stunning augmented seascape, painted in oils. The possibilities of what can be captured with the camera lens are elevat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CHALK SHOAL II - quiet blue water landscape painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Quiet Blue Water Painting - Landscape - Seascape - Light Blue - White
"Jack Flynn conjures weightless scenes in oil with a deep attention paid to both the mute stillness of his chos...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastel Splash - original cityscape realism modern urban oil painting new york
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary realist painter Michael Steinbrick captures a showery perspective of a street scene. Delicately and precisely rendered droplets are illuminated with neon pastel hues whi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light Reflections on the River Landscape Painting by British Photorealist Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Light Reflections on the River Landscape Painting by British Photorealist Artist, Nicholas Smith.
Art measures 16 x 16 inches
Frame measures 21 x 21 inches
Nicholas Smith was bo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spider Web
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spiderweb
Year: February 1969
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 72 x 48 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Sign...
Category
1960s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life with Bread, Cheese, Grapes and Lillies
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Still Life with Bread, Cheese, Grapes, and Lillies
Pitcher
Year: 2001
Medium: Oil on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 43x 58.50 inches
Co...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Banyan Tree: Variation VI (Jamaica)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: The Banyan Tree: Variation VI (Jamaica)
Year: 1981
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed recto...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tiepolo’s Window
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Tiepolo’s Window
Year: August 1974
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 46 x 64 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, and titled by...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lotus No. 34 (Photo-Realist Still Life Painting of Pink & Green Lotus Flowers)
Located in Hudson, NY
Photorealist still life painting of pink lotus flowers with brown lotus pods and green petals against a light grey background
oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches, 17 x 17 inches in dark wo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
East Side New York Aerial
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Hampshire Garden I, Dylan Lloyd, Original Floral Oil Painting, Realist Artwork
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Hampshire Garden I by Dylan Lloyd [2021]
original
Oil paint on board
Image size: H:30 cm x W:24 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:24 cm x D:2.5cm
Framed Size: H:40.5 cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figure, Volcano
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Figure, Volcano (John Huszar)
Year: June 1971
Medium: Acrylic, Pen & Ink on Canvas
Size: 72 x 48 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kiss - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Love, Joyful, Realism, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey:
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Blooming I - flowers flora oil painting contemporary hyperrealism art
By Robert Lemay
Located in London, Chelsea
This original realist artwork by Robert Lemay presents an intimate composition of a floral bouquet. The artist composes the floral set against a dark background which creates a contr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Blooming II - floral surreal contemporary oil painting hyperrealism art
By Robert Lemay
Located in London, Chelsea
This original realist artwork by Robert Lemay presents an intimate composition of a floral bouquet. The artist composes the floral set against a dark background which creates a contr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Afternoon," Oil Painting
By Stephen Day
Located in Denver, CO
Stephen Day's (US based) "Winter Afternoon" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a forest of Pine and Aspen trees under a thick blanket of snow that coats their branche...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tropical Sizzle Palm
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rainbow Rose (flower painting floral rose oil realist vibrant petals canvas)
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
For special requests and commission inquiries, please message the gallery via 1stdibs messaging platform here.
#flowerpainting #floralpainting #rosepainting
About artist:
Born in ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaping Peony (Still Life Painting with Pink Flower and Country Landscape)
Located in Hudson, NY
Photo-realist still life painting of a pink peony against a country landscape with blue mountains and a blue, moon-lit sky just after sunset
"Leaping Peony" by Ann Getsinger, 2019
O...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Golden Memories", R.W. Hedge, Original Oil on Canvas, 60x48. in., Grand Canyon
Located in Dallas, TX
Imagine standing a short distance from an ancient ledge, gazing across the awesome span of the canyon, with the sun setting beyond the orange canyon rim. When you look closely, you c...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miguel Peidro "Autumn Mist", Fall Foliage Mountain Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Autumn Mist" by Miguel Peidro is an 18x22 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a dirt path in peak autumn season, with bright orange an red foliage on the surroun...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
