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The fallacy is that realism has gone away and is now coming back. The reality is that still lifes and realism have always been around. |
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 © Susan Gerstein City in the Morning Painting  © David Pena The Coster Family Oil on Canvas
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Realism, a fidelity in art and literature to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization.
Realism, in a general sense, refers to objective representation.
More specifically, a nineteenth-century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects. Daumier, Millet, and Courbet were realists.
 © George A. Rada In Half Space Oil Painting |
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It just happened that non-realistic art got media attention because the media focuses on the shocking and controversial.
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But in actuality, abstracts are a tiny fraction of the art being produced today.
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 © Susan Gerstein City at Moonrise Watercolor on Paper |
 © Regina Perlin Smith Street Overpass, Brooklyn Oil on Canvas |