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Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
Although the term can be used broadly to describe artworks in many different media, it is also used to refer specifically to a group of paintings and painters of the American art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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| Frites – Claude Yvel is a French photorealist painter. Frites is an oil/canvas still life painting from 1959. [Source: pinterest.co.uk] |  Image source: pinterest.co.uk |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Frites | 1959 | Oil/Canvas | Still Life |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Yvel, Claude | 1930- | French painter | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-11] | |
| 36 x 25 |
 Image source: chuckclose.com | Big Nude, this 1967 is acrylic on gessoed canvas, and it is big – 297 x 644 cms. The painting’s variegated brushstrokes reveal Big Nude to be more of a prototype for future development than a fully resolved picture. Poised precariously between a common studio exercise in figure drawing and a 1960s girlie magazine shoot, Big Nude also challenges the future of representational painting at a moment in history when the genre would seem to have long ago exhausted its potential for future development. [Source: theartstory.org] |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Big Nude | 1967 | Acrylic/gessoed canvas | Portrait |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Close, Chuck | 1940- | American painter/ photographer | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-12] | |
| Private collection | 297 x 644 |
| Big Self-Portrait, a watershed painting that virtually showcases Close’s unique method. Abandoning the full-body view, Close turned to one of the oldest traditions anywhere in art history, the self-portrait. Close had partially set out to refute the critic Clement Greenberg’s claim that it was impossible for an ‘advanced’ artist to work in portraiture. [Source: theartstory.org] |  Image source: walkerart.org |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Big Self Portrait | 1967-1968 | Acrylic/Canvas | Portrait |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Close, Chuck | 1940- | American painter/photographer | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-13] | |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | 0 |
 Image sourec: museothyssen.org | Telephone Booths – Richard Estes is held to be one of the foremost practitioners of American Photorealism. Most of his paintings portray urban landscapes and life in big cities, particularly New York. Telephone Booths was executed in 1967. The composition began with several photographs Estes took of a row of telephone booths located at the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 34th Street. The artist combined and transformed these into a pictorial motif. [Source: museothyssen.org] |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Telephone Booths | 1968 | 0 | Genre painting |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Estes, Richard | 1932- | American painter | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-14] | |
| Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
| Visible Difference – Howard Kanovitz was a pioneering painter in the Photorealist and Hyperrealist Movements, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in response to the abstract art movement. [Source: Wikimedia commons] |  Image source: Wikimedia commons |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Visible Difference | 1980 | Lithograph on paper | Still Life |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Kanovitz, Howard | 1929-2009, aged 80 | American painter | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-15] | |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC | 73 x 53 |
 Image source: Wikimedia commons | Audrey Flack’s lush textures and densely packed compositions of meticulously rendered objects serve as modern versions of the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch still life painters. Frequently, she employs the symbolism of vanitas (a still life that alludes to the vanity of worldly pleasures and to life’s transient nature) but infuses it with contemporary context. Flack is a pioneer in the genre of Photorealism and best known for her depictions of indulgence, excess, and beauty that are at the same time poignant symbols of desire, passion, and life’s journeys. Its decadent content is evocative of childhood wonder and impulse; yet it is also a reminder of the self-control we are expected to exercise in adulthood. [Source: albrightknox.org] |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Banana Split Sundae | 1980 | Colour screenprint/ inkless intaglio/offset lithograph/paper | Still Life |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Flack, Audrey | 1931- | American artist | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-16] | |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC | 46 x 61 |
| Old couple on bench: Hanson’s hyperrealistic sculptures are cast from live models and typically formed in bronze or fiberglass resin. He is known for devoting meticulous attention to details like hair, veins, and the various accoutrements—clothing and ephemera—that complete his observational sculptural vignettes. [Source: artnet.com] |  Image source: artnet.com |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| Old Couple on a bench | 1994 | Bronze, polychromed in oil, mixed media | Sculpture |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Hanson, Duane | 1925-1996, aged 71 | Sculptor | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | [1722-17]
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 Image source: taylorgalleries.ie | The Odd Couple (open for petrol) is by the photo-realist Irish painter John Doherty. He lives in Watson’s Bay, Sydney Australia but was born in Kilkenny. His subjects are tiredshop fronts, rusty petrol pumps, lighthouses and colourful boats abandoned in shipyards. This 2010 painting shows a pair of mismathed petrol pumps from the ;ate 1970s at Castletownbere, Co Cork, Ireland. [Source: taylorgalleries.ie ] |
| TITLE: | YEAR: | FORM: | GENRE: |
| The Odd Couple (open for petrol) | 2010 | Genre painting | |
| ARTIST: | DATES: | ORIGIN: | MOVEMENT: |
| Doherty, John | 1949- | Irish painter | Photo Realism |
| LOCATION: | SIZE (cms): | ||
| 83 x 122 |
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