In 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.
John Piper is now probably Britain’s leading romantic realist, but he has come to this ... wrote poetry and took art courses. He was 25 before he considered art something more than just one ...
Socialist Realism: art socialist in content and realist in style . One of the burdens this new style had to bear in the capitalist West in later years was that it was labelled as formulaic ...
Thomas Eakins, a realist painter who took the art world by storm, is famous for painting humans and situations with such realistic quality that they feel not like art, but rather images and ...