More narrowly defined, “Realism” is often viewed as the first modern art movement.It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete in ...

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

Seven works featured in the online Contemporary Discoveries auction highlight a surging interest in Realist art. Hsin-Yao Tseng, Times Square Red Night (2019). Courtesy of Art Renewal Center.

I n the glossy generalities of contemporary art criticism, “realist” and “old fogy” are nearly synonymous. Yet one of the nation’s boldest painters is Realist Andrew Wyeth, 41.

Cuadro Fine Art Gallery Showcases Works of Contemporary Realist Artists. Published January 10th, 2009 - 08:13 GMT. Al Bawaba.

Eric Francis is a contemporary realist painter, muralist, teacher and museum coordinator for Southern University’s Museum of Art Shreveport. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Haitian parents ...

Philip Pearlstein is one of America’s leading realist painters and is still going strong at the age of 93. That a new exhibition of his modern realist nudes has just opened at London’s Saatchi ...

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

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