His late portraits painted in exile in Bordeaux - two are in this show - are starkly realistic.
Jenny, the heroine of the starkly realistic "Work," lives on the borderline of just about everything.
The resulting "dream-like" impressionist quality may have been one reason behind the enduring popularity of the medium even after more starkly realistic color processes had become available.
Antonello's depictions are starkly realistic.
But she also cites the starkly realistic 60's television plays of the British filmmaker Ken Loach.
Like the best war films, it is harrowing, starkly realistic and at times excruciatingly vivid in detail.
Belgrade-style black humor mitigates this starkly realistic take on exile life.
His sole source of inspiration and subject matter for his starkly realistic paintings was the Taos Pueblo village.
Despite a few miscalculations, the Opera Festival's starkly realistic production is quite effective.
The Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas is Zurbarán's most highly-regarded work; he painted this starkly realistic masterpiece at the height of his career.