Realist Art
REALIST STYLE
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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Style: Realist
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Nocturnes à Giverny by Elger Esser, Water Lily Lake at Sunset, Contemporary Art
By Elger Esser
Located in Zug, CH
Esser’s Giverny series revisits Monet’s famous garden from an unexpected angle, whereby the common visual memory of this iconic art destination is deconstructed and recreated in an a...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
C Print
1 etching and 1 aquatint of skating youngsters (2010)
Located in Oostende, BE
1 etching and 1 aquatint of skating youngsters, made by illustrator and animator Frederic Marschall.
The aquatint is a negative of the etching. Both were put in a new aluminum fram...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper
Estética (A. Gades)
Located in Barcelona, ES
Figurative work
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Inspiración (Paco de Lucía)
Located in Barcelona, ES
Figurative work of the singer Paco de Lucía
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Calling for Rain", Robert Fobear, Original Oil on Canvas, 60x48, Wildlife Birds
Located in Dallas, TX
"Calling for Rain" is an original oil on linen painting by Texas Artist Robert Fobear and measures 60x48 inches. This stunning piece captures the essence of autumn with its vibrant g...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
MAT BEETSON - Pelican Heart, Western Australia
By MATT BEETSON
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited Edition print of 5 . Mounted on diasec ( acrylic face)
About the picture : Pelican Heart, the 'squadron' of pelicans are on the hunt as they work in unison to corral bait
fis...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
C Print
Marfa Texas Water Tower - Photography by Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Cotton
Pocket Blackbird's Egg 3 (c), Original Painting, Egg, Realism
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blackbird's Egg 3 (c) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroqu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NEON Lighting Noir Swimming - Vibrant Photograph by Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Cotton, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Powerlines and Reflections
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
A painting done on location on the canal in Scottsdale, AZ. A detailed look at man made structures and line.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Blue Jay, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's (U.S. based) "Blue Jay" is an original, handmade oil painting of a bird (Blue Jay) perched on top of a rock in a body of water.
The paintin...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Solitary, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An interesting lone prominent dead tree dramatically present in the foreground of a country feild setting. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
LE Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas : Transcendent Achievement Through Transfor
Located in Charelston, SC
Noland Anderson is a self taught portrait artist who strives to create works of art that are a celebration of people of color. He is known for his detailed compositions in oils applied with loose brush strokes. He often features images of Black women and men engaging in everyday life in urban settings. Born in Newport News, Virginia with roots in Sumpter, SC, Noland's passion for figure drawing was formed at an early age. Noland attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale where he received an Associate Degree in Advertising. Upon graduating, he went on to work as a freelance illustrator, designing Judaic art throughout the mid 1990s through early 2000s. During this period, Noland's freelance work extended into television where he worked as one of three court artists for the ABC affiliate in South Florida and as an illustrator for Univision (an American media company serving the Latin Market worldwide). Noland is represented by Neema Fine Art Gallery.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
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Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Giclée, Canvas
Fir Grove
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Ethereal painting of a winter landscape.
Novikova is a St. Petersburg based artist and graduate of the famous Repin Institute.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Montauk Sunset
By Nina Maguire
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1933
“Experiencing a painting by Nina Maguire is like catching the scent of a once familiar perfume- evoking memory, filling the viewer with a sense of nostalgia, of a ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Geometric Shapes
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life of boxes and geometric shapes
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
La sieste sous le laurier
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Desire 5, 2011
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Her Majesty's Thunder, original oil on canvas, American realist artist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique of using thin layers to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lysander
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ADROGUE II, 2013-2016
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing.
Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England.
1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales.
1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England
1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies.
1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York.
1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies.
1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil
Roses & Lisianthus
Located in Greenwich, CT
Flowers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
57 Chevy Bel Aire
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique of using thin layers to bui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
untitled, 2015
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
MIKONOS
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floating Market Asia
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Smart Couple Sitting
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a plac...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Monolithic
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1972
Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Throughout his high school and college years he studied painting and sculpture at the Art ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Oil
Vibrant Swimming Motion Paris France by Photographer Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paris France - Vibrant aqua blue. Photography Edition Print.
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from chil...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
PENISCOLA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Connection
By Jura Bedic
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
“The success of a realistic painting does not depend merely on copying a subject. I believe it needs to offer the textures, colors, and tones to one’s eye and become something more ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Norwegian Teapot
By Jura Bedic
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
“The success of a realistic painting does not depend merely on copying a subject. I believe it needs to offer the textures, colors, and tones to one’s eye and become something more ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
ATARDECER EN COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Truth & Beauty", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 8x12x9 in.,
Located in Dallas, TX
"Truth and Beauty" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 39/40.
Frederick Hart was an American sculptor. His is best known for his Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Ex Nihiio (1983) depicting Creation scenes above the doors of the Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Pico Garcez - Atacama #1, Landscape Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
RAMBLA DE BARCEONA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography.
Swimming Pool - Bright Orange and Black Noir. Photography. Edition Print.
This Photography work 23.5 inches by 35.5 inches.
Pico...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Fabric Man
By Scott Duce
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b.1956
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
October 3:30 PM sketch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sketch for Minoff's painting October 3:30 PM.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Becalmed
Located in Greenwich, CT
The whaling ship, Essex, in calm seas. On the reverse, the artist writes that—for wind-powered sailing ships—a day with no wind was feared almost as a sto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Beaver, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
317
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Beaver
Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cook Kids Gum
Located in Denver, CO
"Cook Kids Gum," is an original oil painting by Christy Stallop. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Sunset at Loch in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Sunset at Loch in the Mountains of the Scottish Highlands by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. A colourful and dramatic original on canvas, framed in the highest quality...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Pygmy Tyrant, watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
313
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Pygmy Tyrant
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Inuksuks on Anchor Bay
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Anchor Bay in Chesterfield, Michigan is the location for this metallic print of a photographic image by Deborah Benedic.
Deborah created these stone inuksuks one afternoon on her nei...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Exotic Bird, watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
312
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Exotic Bird
Size: 12 x 16 in...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Kori Bustard, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
309
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Kori Bustard
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hyenas, Wild animal, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
308
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Hyenas
Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Siberian Joy, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
305
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Siberian Joy
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sparrow-hawk, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
307
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Sparrow-hawk
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hyena, Wild Animal, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
304
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Hyena
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Truth-Soul
Located in Oslo, NO
This poetic work of art was painted on canvas with watercolors and impregnated with a special composition - “liquid watercolor paper”.
I wrote a poem (in Russian) that encodes the m...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Great Tit, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
303
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Great Tit
Size: 12 x 16 inch...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wolf, Animal Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
302
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Wolf
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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