Another very famous painting by Thomas Eakins is ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’. This too looks very similar to a photograph, ...

And this one isn't either. They're actually oil paintings that are so incredibly detailed that they look real. Hyper-realism is a relatively new art form dating back to the early '70s. The idea is ...

Tom Forrestall, a celebrated Nova Scotia artist remembered for pioneering the Atlantic realism tradition, died at the age of ...