Installation view from ‘Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism,’ Artists Space, 2014. (photo by Daniel Pérez, courtesy Artists Space) From Baudelaire’s 1859 dismissal of photography on ...

Despite my longtime interest in New York art from the 1970s, I somehow never imagined delving into an artistic process called, quite literally, “rectal realism.” However, over a week ago, I found ...

The hyper realism fad came to Nigeria around 2014-2016 and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere else soon. Hyper realism is painstaking, demanding and usually worth it in the end. When Olumide ...

What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? We look at the history of artists ...

The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts hosted the 14th annual IX Celebration of Imaginative Realism, a gathering of artists, students and collectors of Imaginative Realist art. Each year, over 200 ...

Artists Jonathan Hodge and Garth Swanson are keeping it real with their twin exhibits at The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts on Magazine Street. Their takes on realistic painting, however, are on ...

There are big blank spots on the walls of some prominent homes in Philadelphia. Twelve of the 15 American landscape paintings now on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art were pulled from local ...

Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Art and Soul event returns this week with a fresh twist: Soul Realism. The showcase, set for Friday at the historic Madam Walker Building, will feature a collection of local ...

Abstract art is often seen as the opposite of realism, but in truth it forms the foundation of all strong realistic artwork.

Three essential new books help navigate the bright world of fantasy art. The sale of Frank Frazetta’s Egyptian Queen for $5.4 million in 2019 has shown that imaginative realist art has become a ...

As the influence of video games on mainstream culture grows, art critics and designers are calling for the genre's graphics to move beyond "realism" at the same time game makers want to see how ...