San Antonio is one of the top tattoo cities in the nation and now, local tattoo artists are using new machines and ink to create convincing and even photo-realistic illusions on their clients’ skin.

Reading, Pennsylvania, might just be the next must-visit arts destination in the country. With the 10th annual IX Celebration of Imaginative Realism having opened at the GoggleWorks on Wednesday, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Returning for another edition, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) of New York has announced its 17th International ARC Salon Competition, inviting artists—both local and international—to enter the largest ...

Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts -- Introduction: realism then and now / Andrew Hemingway -- The transactions of detail / Briony Fer -- Realism's credibility problem / Joshua Shannon -- ...

The Nassau County Museum of Art will present “Real, Surreal, Photoreal” from Nov. 22 through March 8. Curated by Franklin Hill Perrell, the museum’s chief curator, and Alex C. Maccaro, its associate ...

Precision defines every element of this hyper realistic drawing, where detail and control come together to create a lifelike visual experience. The artwork is built gradually through layered shading, ...

Although the term “surrealism” often conjures perplexing visual imagery — Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks, René Magritte’s raining men, Frida Kahlo’s antlered head atop The Wounded Deer — the genre ...

In its appeal to common sense it is easy to imagine that the preferred object of study in art education would be one derived from a realist metaphysics of art. However, the intuitively identifiable ...