Featuring a straightforward approach to representation practiced by artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz,[2] Jack Beal and Neil Welliver.
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".
The group of artists that became known as Maritime Realists developed at Mount Allison University which established the first degree granting Fine Arts program in the country.
[citation needed] Another woman contemporary realist is Ann Mikolowski, whose art explores representational technique in the context of photography, abstraction, and superrealism.
Mark Strand, Robert Hughes, Timothy-Greenfield Sanders, Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1983).