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 ...

I’ve been engaged for several months with the “back to basics” art movement known as classical realism. (You can read my latest post here). The first article I wrote on the subject appeared in the ...

NEW YORK—Realistic painting has a long and revered history going back to the ancient Greeks. Just as classic Greek and Roman art strove to depict the perfect form, artists of the high Renaissance ...

The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what’s now being called “classical realism” — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...

In 1959, the critic Clement Greenberg wrote that "the very best painting, the major painting, of our age is almost exclusively abstract." It was a tune Greenberg sang early and often. He said similar ...