The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art is an initiative by the art-collectors Dirk en Baukje Scheringa. The museum houses their collection of more than five hundred works of art. It was their passion for ...

“Fine art at its best has the power to move one to tears, or grab your sensibilities and rivet you in the moment with an overwhelming sense of beauty and excitement,” wrote Frederick Ross in an essay ...

Despite my longtime interest in New York art from the 1970s, I somehow never imagined delving into an artistic process called, quite literally, “rectal realism.” However, over a week ago, I found ...

In the overwhelmingly large tidal wave of new media art, with digital gallery shows and virtual reality paintings taking center stage, some of the more traditional forms of fine art, it seems, are ...

“Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection” presents some of the most treasured artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection, including works by Will ...

With a mission centered on the promotion and reinvigoration of representational art, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) is at the forefront of the 21st-century representational art movement. Founded as a ...

Los Angeles-based artist Milano Chow has an unlikely fascination with an obscure 18th-century artist named Jean-Jacques Lequeu. He was almost unknown in his lifetime and died, by all accounts, ...

“Lemon Fall,” 2015. Scott Fraser (born 1957). Oil on board, 51 1/2 × 66 inches. © Scott Fraser. Courtesy of Quidley & Company. Through drawings and paintings of ...

Fantasy art is one of the most misunderstood categories of the contemporary realist movement. It is normally discredited as mere illustration since much fantasy art is created for novels and books.

Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...