Realistic Paintings For Sale

Explore realistic paintings for sale online today. If you’re looking for hyper-realistic oil painters, we have work by the talented Andrew McNeile Jones. Lemons From Sorrento (III) is one of his many realistic still-life paintings. Andrew’s style is largely influenced by his time working in film and television, hence the almost cinematographic play on light and dark in his realistic paintings.

Chris Temple’s piece Vitkovice #3 is the third of a trio of realistic cityscape paintings for sale. Often focusing on industrial settings, Chris creates colourful, monumental cityscape pieces where he captures the immense scope and life of cities in transformation.

Vadim Kovalev’s ,,Dali,, captures Salvadore Dali’s vibrant and eccentric soul with oil on canvas. The highly realistic definitions in this detailed portrait are mixed with subtle odes to surrealism; a minute ladybird teeters off of Dali’s moustache, reflected in his right eye.

History of realistic paintings

Realistic art began as a 19th-century movement famously led by Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet. The art movement aimed to only represent what artists could see in front of them. The original definition of realistic painting in art was, therefore, to represent subjects in a truthful, naturalistic way. This meant staying as true as possible to the object being painted and not adding in artificial details or transforming the piece due to any artistic conventions.

Modern realism points to work created since, and potentially influenced by, the development of abstract expressionism. Today, while some realistic paintings have a photo-realistic quality (photorealism - realistic paintings which are so accurately detailed, they could be confused with photographs - emerged as a concept in the 1960s), some paintings appear much more abstract and experimental to openly question the reality of any given work of art. Realistic painting is no longer restricted to paintings which look ‘real’.

Famous realistic painters who have paved the way for realism in modern art include but are not restricted to Edward Hopper, an American realist painter and printmaker, Sir Stanley Spencer, a British realist figurative painter, and Andrew Newell Wyeth, a visual realist painter. Modern hyper-realistic painters with high fidelity to realism also include the likes of Leng Jun. Jun’s painstaking attention to detail is so astounding that his realistic portraits have a scarily uncanny resemblance to his subjects.

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    Untitled Flowers Study 9 by Narbi Price

    Untitled Flowers Study 9

    Paintings - 30x25 cmRent for $90 /mo
    Wizard Nebula (Painted with material from meteorites  by mark batty

    Wizard Nebula (Painted with material from meteorites

    Paintings - 65x90 cmRent for $255 /mo
    Untitled Flowers Study 7 by Narbi Price

    Untitled Flowers Study 7

    Paintings - 30x25 cmRent for $90 /mo
    Blue Glasshouse  by Sue Blandford

    Blue Glasshouse

    Paintings - 41x53 cmRent for $155 /mo
    Home by mark batty

    Home

    Paintings - 120x120 cmRent for $335 /mo
    Tracer by Peter Roux

    Tracer

    Paintings - 117x25 cm
    Americana Cosmetics, 2004 - 2013 by Michelle Heron

    Americana Cosmetics, 2004 - 2013

    Paintings - 51x76 cmRent for $205 /mo
    15:56 Bushy by Carolyn Blake

    15:56 Bushy

    Paintings - 45x40 cmRent for $90 /mo
    Looking Back by mark batty

    Looking Back

    Paintings - 120x100 cmRent for $430 /mo

    Study for a Landscape (S)

    Paintings - 26x35 cmRent for $55 /mo

    Forever and Ever II (Study)

    Paintings - 10x10 cmRent for $39 /mo

    Loch Katrine

    Paintings - 70x120 cmRent for $205 /mo

    CALIFORNIA LIGHT

    Paintings - 61x183 cm

    Try And Hide

    Paintings - 67x110 cmRent for $365 /mo

    Ebony in Shadow

    Paintings - 51x41 cm

    Rule, Britannia

    Paintings - 80x60 cmRent for $400 /mo

    Solid Liquid Glass

    Paintings - 91x91 cm

    Mars, Hematite

    Paintings - 50x50 cmRent for $160 /mo

    Domino Sugar, Williamsburg, New York

    Paintings - 50x100 cmRent for $500 /mo

    Pillars of Creation

    Paintings - 32x27 cmRent for $65 /mo

    Enlacement II

    Paintings - 57x37 cm

    Vitkovice # I

    Paintings - 46x81 cm

    You Read to Me There

    Paintings - 78x61 cmRent for $220 /mo

    Nolita NYC street scene

    Paintings - 25x49 cmRent for $100 /mo

    Untitled Flowers Study 5

    Paintings - 30x24 cmRent for $90 /mo

    Crescent Saturn

    Paintings - 30x30 cm

    Auxillary lines

    Paintings - 30x20 cmRent for $110 /mo

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