Photorealist Still-life Paintings
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers), 1963, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers)
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
P...
Category
1960s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,600 Sale Price
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Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers), 1963, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers)
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
P...
Category
1960s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,600 Sale Price
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"Still Life with Lemons and Hydrangeas" Expressive Oil Painting on canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting "Still Life with Lemons and Hydrangeas" is a 20x24 Oil Painting on canvas by unknown artist 'Lee'. Featured in a still life including a beautiful purple bouquet of hyd...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tres Bolsas y Esfera de cristal, Photorealist Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Photorealist Still Life painting of three paper bags and a glass sphere on a table by Chilean-born artist Gustavo Schmidt.
Tres Bolsas y Esfera de cristal
Gustavo Schmidt, Chilean...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Ring of Fire" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Ring of Fire" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a chocolate donut with a red topping in the center.
Gregory...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Paper and Rope, Framed Photorealist Oil Painting by Lourdes Leon
By Lourdes Leon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lourdes Leon, Mexican
Title: Paper and Rope
Year: 2002
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 28.5 x 29 inches
Frame Size: 35.5 x 36.5 inches
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden Martini - Original Cocktail Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Starling, Contemporary art, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Varvarov Anatoly Viktorovich
Title: Totem,
Sise: 43x27.5 inches, (110x70 cm)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Hand painted, original, one of a kind.
This oil painting, entitled "Totem"...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Place" (2019) By Warren W. Kessler, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Place" (2024) by Warren W. Kessler is an original, handmade oil painting on wood panel that depicts a handwritten note and a polaroid photo taped to an orange wooden wall.
Warren W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood, Wood Panel
"Last of the Season", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Last of the Season" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a suspended tomato with the hand of a gardener with glove. A yellow bird is hovering nearby.
Artist Autobiography:
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1958, my family moved every two years thereafter from California to NJ to PA, and back and forth in-between coming to rest for a while in Swarthmore, PA for the high school years then off to Connecticut College as an art major. The only formal training I have is from my college years, when I focused mainly on black and white, finding refuge in the pencil and printmaking process.
I went to Boston after college. Worked in the Harvard Sq. Coop as a picture framer and ended up managing their custom-framing department for most of the 80’s. I left there to move to Muddy Creek Forks, a tiny self-contained village in a remote holler of Pennsylvania where I lived in the abandoned general store (post office, train station and hotel all in one building) and spent the next 5 or 6 years as a traditional chairmaker. Sitting on my shaving horse with my drawknife (using only hand tools) I made Shaker style ladder-back chairs and made the rounds of juried craft shows and museums. I can’t count the number of odd jobs that have put bread on the table since then, but they include farm hand, carpenter, bookbinder, vest maker, stripper at a three woman printing company and picture framer off and on for 25 years. My easel has been set up in every one of the 26 places I have lived so far.
As of 2001 I now paint full time and divide my time between my log cabin and adjoining studio along the Little Conewago Creek in Manchester, PA and the open studio of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. By the time I decided to give painting my full time efforts I was well into my early forties. My partner of twenty years is a hospice nurse and living with her has taught me that life is short...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Grapes
Contemporary painting of Silverware, Coffee pot
Fruit
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary Still Life painting 'Still life with Red Grapes' is a beautiful composed work that would sit in any interior setting. Higueras has added such fine detail to every inch of the canvas.
At the age of 21, in 1994, when the dexterity in his hands reached...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gardenia, Photorealist Flower Painting by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wrapped Package and Irises, Photorealist Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bold Abstract painting by Chilean-born artist Gustavo Schmidt. The red colors seem to jump off the blue background in this oil painting.
Wrapped Package and Irises
Gustavo Schmid...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hammock in the Garden"
By John Powell
Located in Hinsdale, IL
John Powell has worked in the arts throughout his life. Born in Hollywood, California, he began to paint at the age of 16. Over the past 45 years he has melded his life experiences i...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$4,000 Sale Price
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"Trio" (2022) By Dianne L. Massey Dunbar, Original Oil Still Life Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Trio" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of a McDonald's meal.
About the artist:
When Di...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"One for Solitude", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "One for Solitude" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a wood paneled rustic interior complete with a checkered...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Box" (2025), Original Oil Still-Life by Megan Elizabeth Read
Located in Denver, CO
This painting is framed at 14.50 x 17.50 inches, ready to hang.
Megan Elizabeth Read (b. 1982) is an American figurative artist living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia. Larg...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Vertigo" trompe l
oeil comic clipping of Daredevil on tightrope taped on wall
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Vertigo" is a trompe l'oeil painting of a comic clipping of Daredevil on tightrope taped on wall.
The arts have been an integral part of Anthony Mastromatteo’s life for over 25 yea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vegetables, Photorealist Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Vegetables
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76....
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Title: Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 39 in. x 48 in. (99.06 cm x 121.92 cm)
Frame Size: 40.25 ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"I Believe in Ghosts" is a contemporary trompe l
oeil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"I Believe in Ghosts" is a contemporary trompe l'oeil painting of words scrambled with Casper the Friendly Ghost.
The ghost in this case is not just Casper the Friendly Ghost, howe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Texas Exotic, Large Painting by Bill Wiman
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American (1940 - )
Title: Texas Exotic
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 56 x 59.5 in. (142.24 x 151.13 cm)
Frame: 57 x 61 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jonquil Williamson, Plums with Pittisporum, Original Contemporary Still Life Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jonquil Williamson
Plums with Pittisporum
Original Painting
Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 25 cm x 25 cm x 1.5 cm
Framed Size: 39 cm x 39 cm x 4 cm
Sold Framed (double style tray frame, wood, painted white)
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Plums with Pittisporum is an original oil painting by Jonquil Williamson. I enjoy taking everyday objects from my house and combining them with fruit and sprigs of foliage from my garden as the seasons change. I like combining the vibrancy of the fruit with muted surroundings and colourful foliage.
Jonquil paints with oils. Colour is the dominant driver in all her works, creating vibrant still life and rich tonal landscapes.
Following a Diploma in Art and Design in 2013, she joined the vibrant artists’ community, Wimbledon Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Camellia Branch, colorful, still life, superealsim
By Doug Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted directly from live observation, Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 58 x...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$88,000 Sale Price
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Dylan Lloyd, Garden Study XII, Floral Artwork, Landscape Painting, Floral Art
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Garden Study XII [2022]
original
Oil on Linen Board
Image size: H:30 cm x W:24 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:24 cm x D:0.5cm
Frame Size: H:35 cm x W:40.5 cm x D:3.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Calling All Muses", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Calling All Muses" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a whimsical still life featuring a porcelain tea cup, b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Xtraordinary
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Xtraordinary' - depicts a San Francisco building with warm sunlight casting shadows that cascade across the facade of the green building with red inset window and trim. The piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"You Can Leave Your Hat On" - Large Contemporary Still Life Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
I have noticed the work of this Tennessee-based painter for awhile now, and the superb craftsmanship and subject story appeal are so engaging. He's widely show, and has been part of ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
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"Butterfingering" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Butterfingering" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a donut topped with butterfinger topping.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri,...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Bouquet", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's "Bouquet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts pink rose blooms with baby's breath and green foliage with a contrasting black background.
About the ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pure Gold" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sheri Farabaugh's "Pure Gold" is a handmade, original oil painting that depicts the white and golden flowers of a yucca plant blossoming.
Artist Stat...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Afternoon Drink (Super-Realism Contemporary Photorealistic Still Life Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A superb super-realist depiction of a sliver pitcher and a glass in a silver sleeve, by one of the best, Brandon Drake. Super-realists often like to tak...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clementine
Roses Still Life photorealist painting of vase, flowers and fruit
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Clementines & Roses' is a fabulous example of Lijftogt's work. Such amazing eye for detail is what makes this piece such a knockout piece. A beautiful colour palette has been used t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Mickey Pin" Oil painting
By Nick Leibee
Located in Denver, CO
Nick Leibee's (US based) "Mickey Pin" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an enamel pin of Mickey Mouse, the beloved Disney character,...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Baker
s Dozen", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Baker's Dozen" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts twelve glazed donuts in a white pastry box.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,250 Sale Price
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"Stack One (Parlor), " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Stack One (Parlor)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tall stack of five glazed donuts, with toppings, piled on top of each other.
A...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ora Sorensen, "White Rose", Photorealistic Flower Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ora Sorensen
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This hyperrealist floral "White Rose" by artist Ora Sorensen is a 36x36 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a portrait of a blooming white rose ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,000 Sale Price
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"Samsara" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Samsara" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the glow of a lit candle casting a halo on a blue background.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Panel
Efflorescence
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
Efflorescence - acrylic on canvas - 48 x 30 inches, depicts a building by Julia Morgan — noted architect of Hearst Castle — located on Baker Street near G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Camera Obscura", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Camera Obscura" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an old fashion camera with an open bird cage as steam from...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Chocolate Coconut" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Chocolate Coconut" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a chocolate donut covered with coconut shavings.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Old Dirty Bastard" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Old Dirty Bastard" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a donut topped with chocolate and peanut butter.
Gregory was born in Kansas City,...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Bicycles III", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Bicycles III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the layered view of red bicycles and gears, in profile, locked to a bike rack...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Arabella" (2024) Original Still Life Oil Portrait, Child Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Arabella" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blurred portrait of a young girl.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986 and ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Through a Rainy Window II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Through a Rainy Window II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a window dotted with rain that obscures and abstracts the gray ov...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ken Orton "Camwal", Bottle Still Life Photorealistic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Camwal" is a 54x36 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles. The bottles range in size, color and shape, the most prominent of is the middle Camwal bottle. The window in the background adds depth and interest to the composition, and the rusty orange bottle color compliments the subtle soft blues and greens within the clear glass. The artist chooses to paint larger than life still lives, cropping in closely for more impact. Every detail from the reflections on the table, to the illusion of the raised letters on the bottles, is painted masterfully.
About the artist:
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At the Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain. For the next twenty years he would introduce the concepts of pictorial composition, color theory and draftsmanship to his students. Many of these students would go on to achieve great success in the many branches of the arts, architecture and music and remain close friends with their teacher to this day.
An integral part of Orton’s perspective training for his students was the study of the ellipse. He often used glass cylinders to demonstrate how the perceived ellipses generated by variations in the circle's relationship to the eye-line could be used as a powerful tool in creating the appearance of a third dimension on a two dimensional surface. Later, after he had moved to America in 1999, he discovered a treasure trove of antique mason jars...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"French Breakfast Radish", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "French Breakfast Radish" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a radish rising from an open tea kettle with a Fr...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fruits of Autumn (Small Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting)
By E. Korotkov
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rich, lush, super-detailed. Imported from a super-talented Russian painter I have gotten things from before. Oil on canvas, ready for framing. Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$480 Sale Price
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Contemporary
Still Life with Limes
Painting of glass, fruit and candle
By Paco Yuste
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary 'Still Life with Limes' Painting of glass, fruit and candle with drapery. Photorealism at its very best!
From his childhood he felt great predilection for drawing. In fact drawing was his favourite pastime. When he was 12 years old his parents moved to Brussels, and he joined an international college where his artistic interests for drawing and music woke up. In this period he passed most of his free time drawing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ken Orton, "Patent Image", 40x60 Photorealist Glass Jar Still Life Oil Painting
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Patent Image" is a 40x60 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring a grouping of crystal clear jars and bottles. Included in ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fluid Cadi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The painting “Fluid Cadi” draws inspiration from a fusion of the artist’s travel recollections and dreamscapes. Captured during a trip to California, the artist encountered this Cadi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Paul Béliveau “Les Humanities CCVIII” acrylic 2006 Trompe l’Oeil Photo Realism
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Les Humanities CCVIII”, a large and wonderful acrylic on canvas
painting by Paul Béliveau, was created in 2006. This panting depicting books on a shelf is considered to be in the Tr...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jungle Cadi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The artwork “Jungle Cadi” beckons the viewer to submerge into an atmosphere of sophistication and mystery, skillfully blending the sleek Cadillac against a verdant backdrop that grad...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bread and Pears super realism, colorful, object, traditional still life
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real oil paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. His subject matter concentrates on still lives of food, toys, candy and household objects.
In addition to many group shows across the country, Mr. Newton’s show, “HARD CANDY and other confections” represents his fifth solo exhibition. His paintings have been collected in numerous private collections.
Dr. Sonia Coman writes in her essay, Doug Newton’s hard candy: the confection of painting
Doug Newton’s paintings are about… painting.
The hyperrealist technique of trompe l’oeil or “trick the eye” is knowingly playful. It simultaneously calls attention to the illusion of a different material—for example, translucent candy wrappers—and the reality of the layers of paint, masterfully applied to the canvas. In that, Newton’s paintings pay homage to an esteemed series of trompe l’oeil masters, from Inquisition-era Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán to Gilded-Age American painter William Michael Harnett...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coney Island
By Randy Ford
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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About Randy Ford
Exhibitions of Ford’s work have taken place at Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Editions/Line Gallery, Marlton, NJ, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, Galería artelibre Zaragoza,Spain, Hughes Gallery, Boca Grande, FL, J. Willott Gallery...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,800 Sale Price
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Ken Orton, "Tonic", Photorealistic Colorful Bottles Still Life Oil Painting
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Tonic" is a 36x54 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles. The bottles range in size, color and shape, some of which are filled with red, yellow, green, or blue liquid. The artist chooses to paint larger than life still lives, cropping in closely for more impact. Every detail from the reflections on the table, to the illusion of the raised letters on the bottles, is painted masterfully.
About the artist:
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At the Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain. For the next twenty years he would introduce the concepts of pictorial composition, color theory and draftsmanship to his students. Many of these students would go on to achieve great success in the many branches of the arts, architecture and music and remain close friends with their teacher to this day.
An integral part of Orton’s perspective training for his students was the study of the ellipse. He often used glass cylinders to demonstrate how the perceived ellipses generated by variations in the circle's relationship to the eye-line could be used as a powerful tool in creating the appearance of a third dimension on a two dimensional surface. Later, after he had moved to America in 1999, he discovered a treasure trove of antique mason jars...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fish, colorful, oil painting, super realistic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint on canvas
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Picardie Glasses, colorful, photo realistic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. Hi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ken Orton, "Mandrake" Rainbow Glass Bottle Still Life Photorealist Oil Painting
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Mandrake" is a 54x36 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles and jars. The bottles range in size, color and shape, the most prominent of is Presto jar. Light from the background adds depth and interest to the composition, and the warm orange tones shining through the foreground glass compliments the subtle soft blues and greens within the clear glass. The artist chooses to paint larger than life still lives, cropping in closely and creating a fish-eye lens effect for more impact. Every detail from the reflections on the table, to the illusion of the raised letters on the bottles, is painted masterfully.
About the artist:
Ken Orton has dedicated his life to painting. His childhood was spent drawing the urban, industrial surroundings of Birmingham, England. At the Birmingham and then Manchester Colleges of Art he studied Art Education and after six years teaching in England accepted an offer to head the arts program at the Joan Miro Centro de Arte of the Baleares International School in Mallorca, Spain. For the next twenty years he would introduce the concepts of pictorial composition, color theory and draftsmanship to his students. Many of these students would go on to achieve great success in the many branches of the arts, architecture and music and remain close friends with their teacher to this day.
An integral part of Orton’s perspective training for his students was the study of the ellipse. He often used glass cylinders to demonstrate how the perceived ellipses generated by variations in the circle's relationship to the eye-line could be used as a powerful tool in creating the appearance of a third dimension on a two dimensional surface. Later, after he had moved to America in 1999, he discovered a treasure trove of antique mason jars...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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