photorealism
[foh-toh-ree-uh-liz-uh m]
- 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.
Origin of photorealism
Also called sharp-focus realism, superrealism.
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The portrait of Beyoncé might not have the photorealism of his Morgan Freeman masterpiece, but it sure does come damn close to it.
photorealism
- a style of painting and sculpture that depicts esp commonplace urban images with meticulously accurate detail
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