photorealism Art.
(ˈfəʊtəʊˈriːəlɪz(ə)m)
Also Photorealism, Photo-Realism.
[f. photo- (in photographic, etc.) + realism.]
Detailed and unidealized representation in art, characteristically of the banal, vulgar, or sordid aspects of life. So ˌphoto-ˈrealist a. and n.
| 1961 J. Williams Forger i. 6 A gigantic exhibition that will span everything..from extreme abstract expressionism to extreme photorealism. 1973 Art Internat. Mar. 49/1 Curators, critics, teachers, and writers all over the world, who come to it looking for women's art of every sort from photo-realist to conceptual. 1973 Guardian 11 Apr. 10 There's something a bit pompous..about the claims made for Photorealism, the kick-off show at the Serpentine... Photorealist sculpture is there too. 1975 New Yorker 19 May 11/3 (Advt.), The paintings, done in an authoritative Photo-Realist style, dramatically illustrate Photo-Realism's strange ability to invest ordinary, ugly, even disgusting objects of our Pop culture with an appearance of home truth that borders on beauty. 1976 Ibid. 26 Apr. 137/1 There are Abstract Expressionist, Conceptual, and even Photo-Realist photographs being made. 1977 It June 5/4 About a foot away from it..hover a ghastly mob of poofs, lesbians, photo realists and deviants of every conceivable kind. 1977 Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 272/1 America, which Hockney visited towards the end of the '60s, brought him to some of his major paintings. In these he had used extensive photographic material for a variety of purposes—for information, for realistic detail, for inspiration, the result yielding a new photo-realism of strictly integrated design. |