photorealism
[ foh-toh-ree-uh-liz-uhm ]
/ ˌfoʊ toʊˈri əˌlɪz əm /
noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
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Sometimes photo realism .
Also called sharp-focus realism, superrealism.
OTHER WORDS FROM photorealism
pho·to·re·al·ist, noun, adjectivepho·to·re·al·is·tic, adjectiveWords nearby photorealism
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Example sentences from the Web for photorealism
The portrait of Beyoncé might not have the photorealism of his Morgan Freeman masterpiece, but it sure does come damn close to it.
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British Dictionary definitions for photorealism
photorealism
/ (ˌfəʊtəʊˈrɪəˌlɪzəm) /
noun
a style of painting and sculpture that depicts esp commonplace urban images with meticulously accurate detail
Derived forms of photorealism
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