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Contemporary Realism: 21st-Century Representational Art Comes to Auction With Sotheby’s
Contemporary Realism emerged in New York as a reaction to and rejection of Abstract Expressionism. It began in the 1960s and reached its height in the early 1970s. The movement advocates the natural and objective representation of life through figurative artworks. The contemporary representational art style borrows heavily from early…