hyperrealism
Britishnoun
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But it wasn’t just the hyperrealism of the scene that made it so striking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
For decades, Kim Tschang-Yeul painted water drops that sit somewhere between abstraction and hyperrealism.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Writer Clarisse Loughrey gave it four stars, praising the movie as a "technological marvel of unprecedented hyperrealism".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2019
Those designs seemed motivated by the challenges of hyperrealism, 100 percent airbrushed representations that, at first glance, seemed more photographic than painterly.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
It’s drawn in the cartoons’ appealing neo-Deco style instead of the stiff hyperrealism of most contemporary superheroics.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2015
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