Realist Interior Paintings
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Harold HarveyCornish Family in an Interior - British 1912 Newlyn School art oil painting, Circa 1912
1730s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 1900s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Panel, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Realist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Board, Egg Tempera
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
1950s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
1960s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Linen
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
1970s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel
1940s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
1890s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Viewed across Madison Square Park at sunset, the Metropolitan Life Tower glows orange against a dramatic sky, with Eleven Madison echoing its warm light. Clouds...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Realist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1850s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1930s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Bathed in the intense sunlight after the rain, small boats float quietly between the historic buildings and blossoming terraces of Venice. The water shimmers un...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1890s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Egg Tempera
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Inspired by a late-summer walk through New York's West Village, artist Nick Savides captures a storefront where oversized poppies bloom both inside the windows ...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board



