Their studies reveal one side of the true genius of post-Renaissance Western art by showing how it extended ... one by putting its new found mastery of realism to work in depicting a vastly ...

but artists who have "clear originality in resurrecting visual art from its post-modern grave." Dismantlement, he said, is over. Artists are not only returning to realism, they're "redeploying ...

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 ...

William Whitaker was an American artist known for his mastery in classical realism, particularly in portrait and female ... Whitaker was a member of the National Academy of Western Art and the Oil ...

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 ...