Arline Mann, a former Goldman Sachs managing director turned painter, brings a lawyer’s precision and an artist’s intuition to illuminate the quiet resurgence of representational painting in ...

Realism is not a style but a response to life, its content and condition. Classical Realism, by contrast, is a contemporary style with retro appeal — like Chrysler’s PT Cruiser. Though addressed to a ...

Artists are not only returning to realism, they're "redeploying lost ... whose large-scale oil-on-canvas paintings that use classical technique and modern settings, finally might have an ...

As if on cue, two new books seek to address realism’s flaws and its promise by looking back at the history of classical realism—an earlier version of realism that arrived at its pessimism not by way ...

Like many of his international colleagues, the teenage Spaniard was initially seduced by Caravaggio’s new kind of fierce realism. The year Ribera arrived, the acclaimed bad boy of the Roman art ...

To understand Legal Realism, one must know something of the system of rules ... descriptions are "formalism" and "mechanical jurisprudence"), but the most apt is "classical legal thought." Formulated ...