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 High Quality Oill Painting *Dress Monkey #131* 24"x20" US $54.99 
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Realism in art is defined inside the same way as it would be in literature; it's the rendering of the topic matter as it seriously is without becoming embellished or putting one's personal influence on it. The entire emphasis with realist painting would be to portray the scene or the person as is in a no frills and unromantic fashion. What's sought in realism is to relay exactly what the artist is seeing to the future viewer of the painting with out adding to or taking away from the topic.
Many of the paintings done my realist painters tend to deal much more with situations or subjects which are a bit abnormal or even sordid. Realist photography is the very same way, for instance some of the photos from Vietnam portraying an actual shooting, although shocking, had been also really real. The concept of realism would be to say this is all I know, what I see with my own eyes, whereas idealism is far more concerned with a philosophy that our world is just a reflection of something higher. Realist painters are alot more likely to work in subject matter that's commonplace and everyday which include farming, fishing, as well as other typical everyday pastimes as well specializing in painting the elderly. The colors chosen are completely non embellished and even border on being drab compared to other styles of painting. Just have a look at the Painting Dress Monkey pictured above.
What happened to freedom of expression?
I am a great artist. I wanted to create a paiting much like "Dogs Playing Poker."
My painting depicted monkeys dressed in casual wear, relaxing on a beautiful porch. I called it "Porch Monkeys."
No dealer will buy it because they think it's offensive. WTF?
Freedom what freedom.. America has become a nation of politically correct whiners.
Acrylic paint is only about fifty years old, and is the new kid on the block. This paint is produced from powdered pigments and a liquid acrylic plastic medium. In contrast to oil paint, acrylic dries fairly rapidly and you will need to plan ahead and move swiftly if you want to do much modeling or blending of colors with this kind of artists paint. Yet, the quick drying high quality of acrylic paint might be an advantage when you paint in layers or paint in such a way that doesn't call for the blending or colors. You don't have to wait for a number of days for paint to dry prior to you paint some thing on leading of a previous layer with acrylic. If you would like to mix a number of mediums together, like acrylic drawing paper and discovered objects, then acrylics are the excellent kind of paint for the job. There are also a wide variety of specialty paints and mediums that will be used with acrylics which include modeling paste for texture, gloss and matte mediums for thinning and mixing, iridescent and fluorescent paint, and a lot of other unique impact mediums and additives that could broaden the range of your creative artistic expression.
The Dutch had been famous for embracing realism and the detail of the paintings from the Dutch Masters is unsurpassed. Rembrandt was among the most famous of these realist painters whose works are admired and studied to this day. I have a look at these paintings and am amazed by the attention to detail that they were able to show. Currently, realism is still a main force in art along with all other forms of media., and we carry a number of fine reproductions, like the Painting Dress Monkey above, here at Michael Alan. A number of the largest draws at museums are the realist photographers who are portraying topic matter from the Gulf War along with other comparable tragic landscapes in a way that tugs at the heart. Realism can make you really feel like you're there and at the very same time, glad you are not.