{"title":"Realistic","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"marrakesh-i","title":"Marrakesh I","description":"\u003cp\u003eJaviera da Fonseca Ilic paints the way memory feels, not what a place looked like, but what it left behind. Here, palms in copper and salmon rise into a sky caught between storm and gold, while the garden below spills forward in layers of deep green and dusty rose, alive with a restless, tender energy. There is a terracotta wall in the middle of it all that somehow holds everything together, quiet and warm against the wildness surrounding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53715731087670,"sku":null,"price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_24.jpg?v=1771632510"},{"product_id":"marrakesh-ii-da-fonseca-ilic","title":"Marrakesh II","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rooftop terrace in Marrakesh, mid-afternoon, full of life. Javiera captures that particular collective ease, strangers sharing the same warm air, the same terracotta light, the same unhurried hour. Deep rose and burnt orange walls anchor the scene, sand-colored umbrellas shade the crowd, and the city stretches quietly behind them into a pale blue sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brushwork is calm, the figures loosely rendered yet full of presence. And the cursive script across the facade, cafe des epices, sits within the composition like a whisper that says everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53716483506486,"sku":null,"price":6900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_a21e5acf-aa6f-4dfd-a02a-f8a8872ccef5.jpg?v=1771667521"},{"product_id":"la-dolce-vita","title":"La Dolce Vita","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa Dolce Vita has a quiet, dreamlike atmosphere that feels both familiar and slightly imagined. Javiera balances soft pastel skies, luminous water, and abstracted landforms in a way that feels very intuitive and emotional rather than descriptive. There is a warmth and stillness to the painting, but also a subtle sense of movement flowing through the composition. The work reflects her ongoing interest in memory, landscape, and the way places can exist more vividly in feeling than in exact detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53716485833014,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_7d519750-6e18-4896-ae86-24d7d6d024f0.jpg?v=1771667979"},{"product_id":"coral-village","title":"Coral Village","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the upper end of Zimmerman's village series in both scale and price, this canvas gives a hillside settlement the full scope it deserves: the coral-pink and warm amber buildings stacked against a ground of deep botanical green, the composition rising with the inevitability of a place that has grown into its landscape over centuries. The color is rich and resolved, the coral tones of the architecture carrying a warmth that seems to retain the heat of the day long after the sun has moved on, and the greens of the surrounding vegetation provide the cool register that makes the warm buildings feel even warmer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe painting represents Zimmerman's village subject at its full development, a lifetime of looking at how human communities settle into and against the natural world distilled into a canvas that rewards sustained attention. His ceramic and painting practices share a studio and a sensibility, and the pleasure this painting takes in the way organic botanical forms press up against geometric architectural ones reflects a maker for whom that tension is the central drama of the built world. Coral Village is a painting that knows the place it depicts as well as any painting can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53717291172150,"sku":null,"price":6900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_bd3bcdbe-ea29-4988-b3ae-37ce2267a896.jpg?v=1771747106"},{"product_id":"rapunzel","title":"Rapunzel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong Zimmerman's figure paintings this is a work of unusual scale and ambition. The fairy tale source gives the composition its organizing image: a figure and the extraordinary cascade of hair that defines her story, rendered in swirling rivers of gold and amber that dominate the picture plane with equal parts decorative force and psychological weight. Zimmerman has always been drawn to the moment where the botanical and the human merge, and here the hair achieves exactly that fusion, becoming at once a personal attribute and a landscape, a condition and an environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"22\" data-end=\"299\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe painting synthesizes the influences that have shaped a lifetime of practice: the bold flat color of Gauguin, the sinuous line of Art Nouveau, and the compressed figure work of painters who found in myth a language adequate to complex modern experience. The color is deep and opulent, the warm golds of the hair set against darker botanical forms. It is the kind of painting that comes only from a painter who also works in three dimensions, who understands the weight and volume of the figure from the inside out, and who has spent decades building toward this kind of synthesis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"22\" data-end=\"299\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53717324169526,"sku":null,"price":23000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_a6ba0b4f-c1b2-4157-a323-c46a01fcd9fb.jpg?v=1771747841"},{"product_id":"28-cedric-vu","title":"28","description":"\u003cp\u003eA face looks directly back at you. Chin resting on folded arms, a yellow flower in his hair, eyes that refuse to look away. No mask. No costume. No prop. Just Cedric. The warm orange ground gives the figure a quiet glow, and the tufted texture of the skin holds light in a way photographs struggle to capture. What began as practical self portraiture arrives here with intention. Calm, direct, and certain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cedric-vu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Cedric Vu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723501592886,"sku":null,"price":9000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_e0e6efe2-47d0-407a-8de1-03b173f51778.jpg?v=1772017351"},{"product_id":"first-day-of-summer","title":"First Day of Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA girl in a white short-sleeved shirt is seen from behind, her dark hair in a long braid that falls down her back. She faces a soft, cloud-filled turquoise sky - the particular pale green-blue of early summer. Her posture is still, shoulders relaxed, the braid a single dark line against the white and sky. We see nothing of her face; the painting gives us only this: a figure at the beginning of something, looking forward into open air. Zhu's work frequently withholds direct access to her subjects' expressions, finding in the turned back or downcast gaze a form of privacy that is more revealing than confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752715215158,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/FirstDayofSummer_whitewall.jpg?v=1772721116"},{"product_id":"the-fragile-glitter-no-2","title":"The Fragile Glitter No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eA close-up portrait of a porcelain doll rendered with the full attention Zhu gives to her human subjects - blue eyes catching the light, rosy cheeks, an expression fixed in the particular not-quite-smile of a doll that has always been just beyond reach. She wears a dark dress scattered with small gold stars. The painting belongs to Zhu's Fragile Glitter series, which reimagines porcelain dolls as symbols of purity - perfect, delicate, and quietly luminous. Zhu renders the doll with the same care and psychological attention as her portraits of children, and the effect is that the boundary between the two begins to dissolve. She works in oil with a traditional multi-layered glazing technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752762499382,"sku":null,"price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/TheFragileGlitterNo.2_whitewall.jpg?v=1772721571"},{"product_id":"a-moment-of-silence","title":"A Moment of Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eA child in a mustard-yellow jacket wears an oversized pink bear hat, its round ears framing a face of complete, absorbed stillness. The gaze is direct but turned inward - aware of being seen, unmoved by it. Zhu's paintings return repeatedly to children in moments of self-contained quiet, finding in their stillness a form of emotional complexity that resists easy sentiment. She is a self-taught painter based in College Station, Texas, who began working in oil in 2019, using a traditional multi-layered glazing technique rooted in Renaissance and French academic painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752773837110,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/AMomentofSilence_whitewall.jpg?v=1772721708"},{"product_id":"sea-fog","title":"Sea Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pale figure sits alone in a small white rowboat on a still, gray-blue sea, an oar resting across the gunwale. In the far distance, the faint outline of a lighthouse or sail is barely visible through the mist. The atmosphere is one of complete quietude - not loneliness exactly, but solitude chosen or accepted. Zhu's figurative work consistently locates its subjects in moments that seem to exist outside of narrative time, and this figure in her boat is among the most distilled of those images. She was born in Suzhou, China, and began painting in 2019 after a career as an environmental scientist, working in oil with a traditional multi-layered glazing technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752776491318,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/SeaFog_whitewall.jpg?v=1772721966"},{"product_id":"liberation-no-1","title":"Liberation No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young woman in a white dress floats horizontally above a darkening sea, arms outstretched, hair streaming behind her - neither falling nor flying, but suspended in a state that is both. The horizon below glows with the last light of sunset, deep orange against the blue of dusk. The image carries the quality of a dream that has not yet resolved into fear or freedom. Zhu's work is informed by Magritte's psychological distance as much as by the classical tenderness of Raphael and Bouguereau, and this piece draws directly from that surrealist inheritance. She builds her paintings through traditional oil glazing techniques, and the luminosity of the figure against the twilight sky is a product of that patient, layered process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752788844854,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/LiberationNo.1_whitewall.jpg?v=1772722245"},{"product_id":"a-furry-friend","title":"A Furry Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eA girl in a red polo shirt holds a small brown teddy bear, wearing a pair of round bear ears on her head - toy and child rhyming with each other in both form and feeling. Her gaze is direct but inward, the expression of someone who has not decided whether to trust the viewer. The bear is worn and clearly beloved. Zhu's paintings return persistently to the theme of childhood - its fragility, its self-sufficiency, the way children hold their interior lives apart from the adult world. She was introduced to image-making by her grandfather, a Chinese calligrapher, and later earned a PhD in environmental science before devoting herself fully to painting in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752798249270,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/afurryfriend_whitewall.jpg?v=1772722344"},{"product_id":"per-aspera-ad-astra-zhu","title":"Per Apera Ad Astra","description":"\u003cp\u003eA girl with large, pale eyes stands against a cool blue sky, white feathered wings folded behind her - an angel who does not look comforted by her own wings. A small crescent moon is marked on her upper arm. The Latin title - \"through hardship to the stars\" - gives the image its emotional register: this is not triumph but endurance, something still in the process of becoming. Zhu's figurative work consistently explores the interior lives of children and young women, finding in stillness a form of psychological depth. She works in oil with a traditional multi-layered glazing technique rooted in Renaissance and French academic painting, and began painting professionally in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752811192630,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/PerAperaAdAstra_whitewall.jpg?v=1772722619"},{"product_id":"magnolia-moon","title":"Magnolia Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young girl stands before a large full moon, her dark hair crowned with flowering magnolia branches in full bloom - pink blossoms against a soft, dusky sky. Her expression is inward, unhurried, carrying the particular self-containment that appears throughout Zhu's work. The magnolia, a flower associated with purity and feminine strength in Chinese culture, sits naturally in her hair as though it grew there. Zhu was born in Suzhou, China - a city famous for its classical gardens - and introduced to image-making by her grandfather, a calligrapher. She works in oil using a traditional multi-layered glazing technique, building from grisaille underpainting through successive transparent glazes to achieve the soft luminosity that distinguishes her surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wenyi-zhu\"\u003eBrowse all works by Wenyi Zhu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752815812918,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/MagnoliaMoon_whitewall.jpg?v=1772722830"},{"product_id":"playa-maya","title":"Playa Maya","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour eye finds this painting from across the room. Tropical plants move forward into the foreground - agave and palm leaves catching a light that seems to come from nowhere. Behind them, the sky shifts slowly from magenta into deep violet, the paint opening in thin veins like something geological. At the center, a narrow line of turquoise ocean quietly holds everything together. Javiera has lived in Mexico for nearly a decade, and you can feel that landscape here - the density of the vegetation, the charged stillness of a tropical night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53896858501430,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/PlayaMaya_whitewall.jpg?v=1775891040"},{"product_id":"tulum","title":"Tulum","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour eye finds this painting from across the room. Tropical plants move forward into the foreground - agave and palm leaves catching a light that seems to come from nowhere. 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