Just like we buy new clothes as a reaction to the overwear of a set, new phases in Art came as a reaction to the old ones in the set. And one such was the era of Romanticism, followed by Realism.

magical realism, social alienation, the environment, and technology. "It seems to me, fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism," he once remarked. "The right word is not 'banalizing', ...

It is a figurative sculpture, rooted in realism, that shows an improbably ... It commemorates (the word implies respect, but ...

Law and Mimesis challenges traditional theories of realism in the Decameron and leaves us with a new understanding of Boccaccio as an author who was trained in law but constantly reckoned with its ...

The West Palm Beach museum's season also includes a new artist-in-residence and an exhibition that examines humanity's ...

Jac Alonso is a Spanish tattoo artist based in New York City who can ink in great, hyper realistic detail unlike any a ...

Despite the active tradition of scholarship on Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, scholars continue to grapple with the problem of how the strikingly realistic characteristics of art from this ...

Mr. García Márquez’s next work? “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” There’s debate over whether Mr. Rulfo’s work should be ...

The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all things, became the center of Western art.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor who brought gritty realism to country music, has died at 88. Got a question? Put a reporter on it. Ever think of a question ...