Contemporary realism

The contemporary realism movement is a North American style of painting which came into existence c. 1960s and early 1970s. Artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, Jack Beal and Neil Welliver are major artists associated with the term. The movement refers to figurative art works created in a natural yet highly objective style. Today the term Contemporary Realism encompasses all post-1970 sculptors and painters whose discipline is representational art, where the object is to portray the "real" and not the "ideal".

Some Contemporary Realists, like Beal and Rackstraw Downes, began as trained abstract painters.

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• Revenge of the Philistines, Hilton Kramer, 1985.