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What is Realism? Realism has meant different things at different times... Generally speaking, Realism is an intent to portray ordinary contemporary life, with attention to individual and regional eccentricities. Modern painters use a direct visual language of current iconography and symbols, inspired by photographic forms - a language easily understood by almost everyone in our culture. Realism is coming back. Actually, it never went away, but after 50 years on the periphery, more and more artists are reinvigorating the genre. Today, painters are seeing it as a way to address the experience of living in our complex world, and they are challenging the viewer to consider the forces that are shaping this world, as well as pointing to its beauty. San Francisco Realism ...has its roots in West Coast Realism, the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and Mural Art. It makes liberal use of humor and frequently employs saturated colors and elements of Pop culture. Its relaxed boundaries encompass the extremes of photographic realism and almost-abstract painterly realism. "Realism is the foundation of Western Art. Some More Quotes about Realism: "But to return to the question of the challenge posed by the concept of modernity, for contemporary artists (as it has been across time) it seems not to lie exclusively in the search for new tools and materials, but in the search for expression and idea. At this moment in time a virtually endless range of materials is available to select from to suit the gamut of expressive language, but in the realm of Realism those simple, uncontrived materials which have faithfully served the ineffables of illusionism still stand." Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts. (Fernand Leger) Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. (Berenice Abbott) What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence. (Max Beckmann) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick) The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Alberto Giacometti) A painting is a proposal about what is real. (Harriet Shorr) -previous six quotes are from Robert Glen's Painter's Keys |
Some contemporary Juliette Aristides Robert Bechtle http://www.huntermuseum.org/robertbechtle.htm Lenore Chin Anna Conti - Dale Erickson - Diane Rollins Feissel Stanley Goldstein Judi Gorski Anthony Holdsworth Ocean Quigley Randall C. Sexton David Steinhardt Do you know any Some Realist Art Links: ArtCyclopedia definition of Contemporary Realism Galleries Specializing in Contemporary Realism Thomas Reynolds - San Francisco William Lester Gallery - Pt. Reyes Station, CA Forum Gallery - LA and NY Sherry French Gallery - New York |
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