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Early photorealism paintings were a reflection of reality based on a photographic genre. Photorealism challenged the camera as a means for artists to emulate photographs. My style of work evolved into hyperrealism, an extreme form of photorealism which had become the next rising school of art after POP Art.
Through use of substituted color, lighting and shading, hyperrealism alters the viewer's perception by creating an illusion of actual reality rather than just a mere reflection of a substituted reality.
As a counter culture school of painting,
hyperrealism incorporates an existential frame of reference in
an optically convincing altered reality based on photography.
As such, hyperrealism challenges the distinction between visual perception and illusion.
"One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of
photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism
and painters like Richard Estes,
Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack,
and Chuck Close often worked from photographic
stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."
- From the newly released 248 page book "American Culture in the Twentieth Century: American Culture
in the 1980s" by Graham Thompson, Edinburgh University Press (U.K.) 2007
WIKIPEDIA REFERENCES
• Photorealism
• Hyper-realism
• Chuck Close
• Denis Peterson
• Audrey Flack
• Richard Estes