realism

"Just standing in front of a painting. It's an emotional interaction, and I can picture what ... the artist was thinking," says John Hood, a rising star among realist painters ...

The difference between wishing and hoping is action.

While the power of positive thinking may boost confidence, it may not be the best path to successful ...

MONTGOMERY, N.Y.—The Wallkill River School gallery is currently running an exhibit entitled "Realism: An Academic Approach," featuring works ...

Commentary How did we get here? How did we arrive at a place where an individual’s worth depends ...

Graduates of the Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) presented their final culminating artworks during a July 1 exhibition. LCAD is ...

In the painting “Patient Observer,” an American barn owl has been captured gracefully stretching out its wing, revealing ...

Commentary Over the course of history, and more emphatically, recent history, nations, in particular democracies, swing on the ...

Sandra Kuck's paintings are rich in detail, and take several months to complete. "Yin and Yang" took half ...

Commentary The events of the mid-20th century shook the world and shattered the optimism that came with the ...

BERGEN, Norway—Norwegian artist Atle Skudal’s paintings capture significant moments in people’s lives. He often includes objects that are ...

In this column, "The Masters' Thread" (ept.ms/mastersthread), artists share their thoughts about how one master's piece inspires their ...

After college, I felt a little lost for a while. My technical ability wasn’t quite what I wanted, ...

What modernists have done has been to aid and abet the destruction of the only universal language by ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau cried out at the beginning of his landmark work “The Social Contract”: “Man is born free, ...

So let us look at what was actually being done by academic artists of the late 19th century. ...

Modern art has taught us that it’s a lie to create an illusion of three dimensions in a ...

Thinking about the theme of building on the classics, I’ve concluded that nothing could be more appropriate than ...