A
realist is someone who views and accepts situations and events as they truly are, without overly optimistic or pessimistic assumptions.
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Each generation
of realist artists brings new subjects and new media to the genre.
In the 1930s, he began his career as a social
realist painter because of his strong interest in conveying the human experience.
In social
realist painting of the 1930s, a work was judged by what it had to say about class conflict.
East German artists, on the other hand, were forced to adopt a
social realist style based on Soviet models.
Ironically, in their attempt to reject European abstract art,
American realist painters only succeeded in creating the greatest monster of abstraction, ever.
His oil paintings are mainly based on a contemporary
realist style.
The acrylic and graphite works combine abstract pattern elements
with realist imagery such as botanical forms and architectural structures.
His black - and - white paintings would, perhaps, benefit from a full - scale retrospective, one including the early
realist work and later color abstractions.
This
magical realist debut from a poet and translator plays with the concept of fiction and what it reveals about the writer.
An instructor at the school, the social
realist artist became a mentor and friend.
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so -
called realist painting — of a landscape, for example — and an abstract painting.
He uses unusual colour combinations and depicts scenes from unexpected angles, all contributing to give his work a
magic realist feel.
However, unlike
realist approaches, expressionism plays upon the evocative power of exaggerated color, distorted shape, and gestural line.
What defines conservative art — an accessible artist, an academy of fine art, or a sober
realist at home in one?
The artist, who died in 2011, was possibly the
greatest realist painter of his time.
He was most recognized, however, for his life - size
realist portraits painted in the 1970s.
The son of a jewelry maker and a pupil of the old masters of Italian art, he started painting early on, moving
through realist, expressive, and narrative styles.
Dutch painters were responsible for the development of very subtle
realist techniques for capturing light and weather with paint.
It is a complex painterly experience — richer than the polished
photo realist image at first suggests.
Being a
Modern realist, I tend to be more certain of the ability of science to obtain the ultimate truth which forms the basis of realism.
If you really think about it, I know the single photograph can not be seen as the ultimate
realist picture.
My idea of making this work is not to do any criticism or replication but to focus on what it means for sculptors to create
realist sculptures in the time the work was created.
I became interested in the grid again as an adult, when I was shifting from
making realist paintings to abstract ones.
The artist works in a traditional hyper
realist manner, yet his subject matter takes an alternative turn.
What realist is suggesting is a very Republican point of view.
One climate
realist even thinks that the global cooling has already started.
The American artist was one of the
leading realist painters of urban genre scenes in the latter half of the 20th century.
The successful investor, no doubt, is an ice -
eyed realist with no room on his spreadsheet for calculations of the heart.
He is also interested in group figure paintings and what he calls,
academic realist painting.
Her father was a socialist
realist sculptor, and that contributed to her work's documentary quality.
And by the way, a
true realist would know the good and the bad of these programs or their like.
I like to have realistic healthy habits and
realist goals that are easier to stick to, always leaving a little room for some french fries etc once in a while.
Such an approach to marriage certainly has that satisfying tough - guy -
realist thing going for it, but it turns out not to be based on reality at all.
We look at his early silent films, his first sound adaptations, and a couple of films from the middle of the decade where he began to settle into his
poetic realist style.
I have recently discovered your videos and blogs and felt they addressed important key areas of building and marketing art in more current and
realist ways.
They are terrified that people will find
realist analyses and explanations far more persuasive.