photorealist
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photorealists
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Close, best known for his monumental photorealist portraits, had not yet found his style and was painting in an expressionist mode heavily influenced by Willem de Kooning.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Hosoda’s backdrops, with their soft colors and photorealist details, are always gorgeous enough to get lost in, but they also tell a deeper story of community and healing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
In the 1990s, Bowers’s art centered on drawing, including extraordinary photorealist works based, for instance, on a single figure picked out from a crowd photograph of a rally or sporting event.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
After spinning a massive payday out of The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau returned to the House of Mouse for another photorealist fantasy with a core cast out of the kingdom Animalia.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2019
“Even though he was a photorealist, he had a beautiful sense of design. I think he really saw beauty in things.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019
There is nothing by Franz Gertsch of Switzerland, perhaps the best of the photorealists, and Chuck Close is represented only by a pair of minor early drawings.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
A favorite subject of the photorealists was the new American landscape filled with highways, billboards and strip malls.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
The photorealists also worked in two traditional genres of painting: portraiture and still life.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
Hendricks was a bit different and, I think, a bit more ambitious than most other photorealists.
From Washington Post
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