More narrowly defined, “Realism” is often viewed as the first modern art movement. It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete ...

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery: 'mythic art of the flesh' - 5/5 Jenny Saville’s huge new exhibition at the ...

Contemporary realism, far from being a simple extension of academic painting, is in direct dialogue with photography, Pop Art, and institutional critique. Vega, by depicting mundane objects such as ...

"Facing Reality: Selections of Chinese Contemporary Art", opened at the National Museum ... representatives of this modern "converted realism." A more sober form of social reality, is emphasized ...

Most of Sorrell’s work is modern realism with impressionist influences, but he also dabbles in abstract. He began painting just 12 years ago, deciding to try it one day and never looking back.

SOUTH NEWFANE — Willow Vermont Retreat hosts "Passage: The Future of Contemporary Realism," Aug. 24 to Sept ... from classical training to their emergence on the contemporary art scene. Passage pushes ...

Wherefore, these gentlemen exercised a remarkable ingenuity in the art of evasion and denial ... When challenged by modern realism they evaded the issue by asserting that it was not modern ...