Even away on my roadtrip, I could hear the rolling thunder of this bomb that Maureen Mullarkey of the New York Sun dropped on Jacob Collins’s nudes at Hischl and Adler. Realism is not a style but a ...

While modernism transformed American art in the 20th century, a handful of painters remained committed to the techniques and ideals of academic realism. A selection of their works is now on view at ...

Over the weekend I visited the New Britain Museum of American Art in order to catch a glimpse of the big kahuna of all Classical-Realist painting: Graydon Parrish’s new Cycle of Terror, an allegory of ...

Teacups and saucers neatly stacked on a kitchen counter. Golden sunlight streaming through a hallway window. A blue hydrangea cutting resting in a paper cup. These are among the morsels of beauty ...

A self-taught artist in Manila is turning people’s pets into oil paintings. Katrina Elise Chua, known as Kat Chua, left corporate work to build a career in pet portraiture, using classical realism, ...

As a “classical realist” who creates luminous landscapes, timeless still lifes and lifelike portraits, Jacob Collins operates outside the art world that usually receives media coverage. His work isn’t ...