Realist painters

from my earliest years, and eventually went on to college to study Fine Art in Buffalo, New York. After he graduated he worked as a photo-realist painter and had his work exhibited in the Albright Knox Art Gallery also known as the Burchfield Penney Art Center. With the encouragement of some friends he decided to make use of his creative drawing and photo-realist air brush skills and began working as a commercial illustrator. Originally he did product illustration for many local advertising…

The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled, defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body." The bottom line for Clark was that nude is art and naked is not. The paintings from Renaissance era inspire every painter on the earth. Nude confers power; naked implies…

Gustav Grunewald was originally born and died in Germany from 1805-1878 (Allentown Art Museum) (Sozanski). Gustav trained at the Dresden Academy with his teacher Casper David Friedrich, who was a well known 19th century German Romantic landscape painter (Sozanski) (Stokstad). Friedrich believed that the artist's inspiration comes from within, rather than an outside object (Whelan). This could be the reason why Grunewald stated he never had figure to look up to or was inspired by. After training…

The 19th century brought about the Impressionist movement and the Parisian artists that developed their styles in opposition to the artistic ‘status quo’ in France at the time. They were specifically notorious for violating the rules of scholarly painting in not only their techniques used, but in also their change of subject matter. Realistic depictions of modern life came to the forefront, replacing the countless still life and portraits. They chose to focus heavily on effects, especially light…

Klimt 's work is formally ordered and decorative while Schiele 's work is unforgiving in its brutality. An example that displays this duality in their work and similar compositions are Klimt’s The Kiss and Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was born in Vienna. Klimt was noted for the erotic quality of his highly decorative art. His style was perceived as rebellious of the traditional academic…

Grant Wood - American Gothic, 1930 Introduction Grant Wood, American painter who was born in February, 1891 and died in February, 1942. His iconic painting in 20th century with regionalism, American Gothic (1930), which was depicting the rural American Midwest. About Regionalism Regionalism, or we can called it American Scene Painting. It is a realist modern art movement in American which was popular form 1920s to 1950s in the United States. In art, Regionalism was a style and defined as…

John Singleton Copley created this painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (Figure 30.1), This well-known wealthy, classy painter, painted this portrait in Boston in 1773. The most punctual realist work started to show up in the eighteenth century this Romanticism and Neoclassicism. This is apparent in John Singleton Copley's paintings, His style was clear and reasonable, he was known for his representation. This artistic creation was made in the United States, as per his innovative style and his…

used to describe the works of Gustave Courbet and a group of painters who rejected idealization and focussed on representing everyday real life. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism - a movement which had influenced European literature and arts since the late eighteenth century. It revolted against the…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…

To attract and keep the attention of the audience in a genre as stale and traditional as still life painting can be a difficult task, but many painters have risen to the challenge in the hundreds of years since its invention. These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and…