hyperrealists
Painted photograph makers
Hyperrealists are artists who create work so precisely detailed it resembles high-resolution photography.
The term applies mainly to painters and sculptors working since the 1960s and 70s who render subjects—often mundane scenes, portraits, or still lifes—with meticulous attention to texture, light, and reflection.
The hyperrealists captured every pore and wrinkle.
Art imitating camera accuracy
- trompe-l'oeilArt mimicking three dimensions
- verisimilitudeAppearance of being factual
- illusionismArt of visual deception
- exactitudePerfect correctness in detail
meticulous · Hanson · airbrushing · canvas · gallery · oil painting · acrylic · lifelike
Philosopher of simulated reality
- simulationImitation of real processes
- simulacraInsubstantial likenesses or copies
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- mediationIntervention to resolve conflict
reproduction · authenticity · reality · representation · signs · symbols · media · artifice
photorealism
Art imitating camera accuracy
- trompe-l'oeilArt mimicking three dimensions
- verisimilitudeAppearance of being factual
- illusionismArt of visual deception
exactitude · meticulous · Hanson · airbrushing · canvas · gallery · oil painting · acrylic · lifelike · precision
Baudrillard
Philosopher of simulated reality
- simulationImitation of real processes
- simulacraInsubstantial likenesses or copies
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
mediation · reproduction · authenticity · reality · representation · signs · symbols · media · artifice · constructed
Hanson
Musical family surname
- siliconeFlexible synthetic polymer
- fiberglassReinforced woven strand composite
- lifesizeMatching actual dimensions
figures · mannequin · uncanny · human · resin · casting · molding · skin · hair · pores
hyperrealistsabstract expressionists
Postwar American avant-garde painters
abstractionists · impressionists · expressionists · minimalists · cubists