This approach helped shape the New Realism movement, transforming perceptions of painting and viewer interaction with art. Jenney’s work brought together idealism and realism in innovative ways, and ...
Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures ...
Bohrod is a naive realist whose paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses ...
And this one isn't either. They're actually oil paintings that are so incredibly detailed that they look real. Hyper-realism is a relatively new art form dating back to the early '70s. The idea is ...