Contemporary women artists Realism is coming back! Lost to decades of abstract art, contemporary figurative painting is experiencing a rebirth in a variety of styles. Contemporary figurative artist…

Susan Lichtman

Ard, Kurt (b,1925)- Child- Too Sick to Play

Realism Today on Instagram: "⁣The Tragedy of 9/11, on a Long Sheet of Canvas by Graydon Parrish (swipe right👉)⠀ ⠀⠀ 2007: For the last four years, Graydon Parrish, a young, well-schooled academic realist painter known for technically precise if bloodless figure studies, worked on a single painting in his studio in Amherst, Mass. Now complete, the work must be one of the largest oil paintings made in America in the past few years. It is the size of a small sailing boat.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Titled “The Cycle…

You might notice that English painter Agnes Toth’s work looks incomplete. Although logic entices us to notice the missing links, Toth’s techinque aspires to find the threshold between abstract and figurative painting. Her colorful, intentionally half-finished, realistic paintings are the result.