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 ...

Take a closer look at the process of drawing a piano with impressive realism. The video demonstrates how attention to detail and technique can turn an ordinary illustration into something that closely ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE – Exploring the subtle balance between realism and abstraction, an upcoming art exhibition at Laramie County Community College will reveal intricate details that transform familiar cityscapes ...

Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts -- Introduction: realism then and now / Andrew Hemingway -- The transactions of detail / Briony Fer -- Realism's credibility problem / Joshua Shannon -- ...

In his book, Secret Knowledge, the English painter, David Hockney, sets out a remarkable theory of the history of art, arguing that painting became much more realistic and optically exact following ...

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 ...

ELY, Minn. — In Wendy Rouse’s art stash, you’ll find the usual paints and brushes — also plastic babies, a tiny toy construction worker and an RX bottle containing dead bugs. “A friend in San Diego ...

There, in spite of the widespread feeling for realism, the mass of the people desire to be amused and are bored by anything with the form of art. So now Adler is connected with the People’s Theatre, ...