Vickie Ratliff, an award-winning contemporary realist painter from Midlothian, will give a demonstration at the monthly ...

One hundred contemporary artists received the same invitation: “Imagine a copy of a work of your choosing from the collections of the Musée du Louvre.” The instructions were vague and open-ended, but ...

Ben Shahn, “Contemporary American Sculpture,” 1940, from a retrospective at the Jewish Museum. The artist depicts his own realist paintings surrounding modern sculptures. Estate of Ben Shahn ...

Realism Returns: The Resurgence of Traditional Art Skills in the Digital Age The resurgence of representational art reflects a renewed cultural hunger for technical skill, emotion and tangible ...

They both dwell in the world of hyper-realism, a painting style that is anything but in vogue in the current age, and something not frequently spotlighted at such serious art galleries.

For the average viewer, there are unwritten rules about art. Art is only art when it is in a museum, when it is centuries old, or when it is realism crafted by a technical master. When modern ...

Realistic painting, borrowed from the West, was nurtured in China and has never gone out of date. Now "Spirit and Novelty" exhibits some of the best of the country's contemporary realism at the ...

State Tretyakov Gallery accused of making ‘gross and inexcusable mistake’ by restructuring contemporary art department ...

The retrospective devoted to Tom Wesselmann and his contemporaries at the Parisian institution revisits the history of a movement that never stopped inventing.

The owner of the gallery, Steven Francis Coates, said he has a passion for contemporary realism. Most of his art comes from artists in the Central Virginia area.

SOUTH NEWFANE — Willow Vermont Retreat hosts "Passage: The Future of Contemporary Realism," Aug. 24 to Sept. 1 at 369 Dover Road in South Newfane. Tom Concannon and Ravi Shimpi, owners of Willow, have ...