The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art is an initiative by the art-collectors Dirk en Baukje Scheringa. The museum houses their collection of more than five hundred works of art. It was their passion for ...

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 ...

Los Angeles-based artist Milano Chow has an unlikely fascination with an obscure 18th-century artist named Jean-Jacques Lequeu. He was almost unknown in his lifetime and died, by all accounts, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Although representational artists such as Eric Fischl, Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein have gained widespread acclaim in recent decades, ...

Clive Head is widely considered one of the leading realist painters of his generation. In the upcoming exhibition, Clive Head: Zoetic-Realism, Hollis Taggart Galleries will present a selection of ...

The art form officially sanctioned by the state under Stalin has long been ridiculed in the West; but now, 50 years after the death of the dictator, and in the absence of any serious attempt to tackle ...

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