It’s an important part of art history in our region. During the Great Depression and into the post-World War II period, many Northwest artists set out to report reality in their paintings. “Northwest ...

In 1872, painter Albert Bierstadt finished “View From Donner Lake, California,” which encompassed the mile-high waters of the Sierra Nevada with the sinewy wagon trails and the muscular, ...

The Nassau County Museum of Art will present “Real, Surreal, Photoreal” from Nov. 22 through March 8. Curated by Franklin ...

Show-off, scoundrel, and self-promoter par excellence, Gustave Courbet, the father of Realism, did his best to needle 19th-century decorum wherever he sniffed it. He was an all-round pain in the neck.

Amid digital abstraction and A.I., collectors and creators are returning to the human touch of classical realism. Luc Castel/Getty Images “It comes down to reality,” Billy Joel sings in “New York ...

ZANESVILLE ‒ Artist Paul Emory is returning to the Zanesville Museum of Art after an 18-year absence, with help from Aaron Thompson, the museum's exhibit coordinator. Emory's work doesn't quite create ...

The foundations of Russian socialist realism were provided by Nicholai G. Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), translator and critical commentator of John Stuart Mills’ Principles of Political Economy. An ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Feb. 27, the Georgia Museum of Art will open its latest exhibition, “Extra ...

Three essential new books help navigate the bright world of fantasy art. The sale of Frank Frazetta’s Egyptian Queen for $5.4 million in 2019 has shown that imaginative realist art has become a ...