With a mission centered on the promotion and reinvigoration of representational art, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) is at the forefront of the 21st-century representational art movement. Founded as a ...

The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what’s now being called “classical realism” — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...

John Thomas Biggers’ The Mandolin Player is an important painting for many reasons. First, the painting is representative of the social realist movement of the ’30s and ’40s. You might know another ...

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 ...

Making a good painting merely takes setting all the strokes in order. Put that way, it sounds easy. Realism in painting never loses its appeal for just this reason. Not because we have some mysterious ...

Early in his career, Jeremiah William McCarthy was told by a mentor, “Until you lay your hand and eye on all the objects in the collection, you can’t call yourself a curator.” When he came to The ...

Realistic artwork often appears detailed and literal on the surface, but beneath that finish lies a framework built from ...

Though the legendary career of painter Chen Yifei ended with his abrupt death in 2005, his legacy in pushing forward the Chinese realism style onto the world stage is being carried on by his ...