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Beautiful Cat Face with Open Mouth, Pink Tongue Up, Big Green Eyes - Acrylic on Canvas with Resin Coat Finish This 2011 cat face, featuring a lifted tongue and captivating green eyes, is a figurative painting that serves as a pet portrait, capturing the essence of a playful kitten. The artwork is skillfully crafted with acrylic on canvas and boasts a resin coat finish for added depth and durability. Born in Quito, Ecuador, I consider myself a citizen of the world. While I hold deep affection for my native country, I made the conscious decision to broaden my horizons by relocating to the United States in 2004, where I have lived and worked since. Art has been a constant presence in my life, thanks to my father who was a painter. Surrounded by art from a young age, I naturally developed a keen interest, skill, and taste for texture, colors, and shapes. As a realistic painter, I specialize in portraits (both people and pets), still life, and various other themes. My artistic journey includes extensive experience in creating murals. My art education includes studies at the Art Student League of NYC, Parsons School for Design in NYC, Academia de Artes Guerrero in Bogota, Colombia, Instituto Tecnologico Equinoccial in Quito, Ecuador, and Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Over the years, I have showcased my work in numerous exhibits across the USA, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and Switzerland.

Contemporary painterly realism illustration has a rich and diverse history that reflects the evolution of artistic expression in the modern era. Stemming from the roots of classical realism, this movement gained prominence in the late 20th century and continues to thrive today. In response to the abstract and conceptual art dominating the art scene, contemporary painters sought to reestablish a connection with the tangible world through meticulous representation. Painterly realism emphasizes the skilled use of brushstrokes and a keen attention to detail to capture subjects with astonishing lifelike precision. This style often explores a wide range of themes, from portraiture to still life and landscapes, offering artists a versatile platform for storytelling and expression. Contemporary practitioners of painterly realism draw inspiration from diverse sources, incorporating personal narratives, cultural influences, and societal reflections into their work. Advancements in technology have also played a role, allowing artists to explore new techniques and approaches. From traditional mediums like oil on canvas to digital tools, contemporary painterly realists employ a variety of methods to convey their artistic vision. As the movement continues to evolve, contemporary painterly realism remains a dynamic and evolving force in the art world, pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions while celebrating the beauty of skillful craftsmanship and the enduring power of representation.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_%28arts%29

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular, empirical rules", as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation. As such, the approach inherently implies a belief that such reality is ontologically independent of man's conceptual schemes, linguistic practices and beliefs, and thus can be known (or knowable) to the artist, who can in turn represent this 'reality' faithfully. As Ian Watt states, modern realism "begins from the position that truth can be discovered by the individual through the senses" and as such "it has its origins in Descartes and Locke, and received its first full formulation by Thomas Reid in the middle of the eighteenth century."

Realism often refers more specifically to the artistic movement, which began in France in the 1850s. These realists positioned themselves against romanticism, a genre dominating French literature and artwork in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Purporting to be undistorted by personal bias, Realism believed in the ideology of objective reality and revolted against the exaggerated emotionalism of the romantic movement. Truth and accuracy became the goals of many Realists. Many paintings which sprung up during the time of realism depicted people at work, as during the 19th century there were many open work places due to the Industrial Revolution and Commercial Revolutions. The popularity of such 'realistic' works grew with the introduction of photography — a new visual source that created a desire for people to produce representations which look “objectively real.”

The term is also used to refer to works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism or Kitchen sink realism. In general, realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in a "true-to-life" manner. Realists tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms of art in favor of commonplace themes. The term is applied to, or used as a name for, various art movements or other groups of artists in art history.