Meticulously created paintings that look like photographs, and became popular during the 1970s.
refers to a style of painting and printmaking popular in the late 1960s and 1970s that featured detailed representational subjects (cityscapes, still-lifes, motor vehicles, portraits) based on photo images. More generally, it can refer to any photo-based, sharp-focused, highly detailed style.
Also known as Superrealism, a school of painting and sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized producing artwork based on scrupulous fidelity to optical fact. Many of the artists used photographs as sources for their imagery.
A figurative movement that emerged in the United States and Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The subject matter, usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an extremely detailed, exacting style. It is also called superrealism, especially when referring to sculpture.
hyper-realistic painting and sculpture using exaggerated photographic sharpness to take a critical look at the details of reality.
The effect of the picture painted to resemble a photograph or having the realism of a photograph.
A style of painting that became prominent in the 1970s, based on the cool objectivity of photographs as records of subjects.
An attempt to create realistic appearing images with much detail and texture.
A painting movement beginning in the late 1960s that sought to reproduce photographs as accurately as possible, often at a very large scale. Subject matter was often commonplace and even mundane. Leading exponents include Don Eddy, Richard Estes, John Salt and Chuck Close.