Photorealist paintings with its rich past and bright future

Posted by GeorgeVelvet on April 26th, 2014

Photorealism sometimes called Hyperrealism, Sharp Focus or even New Realism is a special form of Modern Western painting. With its origin in the 1970’s, it is close to what we say Realist Painting style. After New York art dealer Louis K. Meisel proposed the term ‘Photorealism’ in 1968, everyone knew that this type of work has its base in photographic images. Since then photorealist paintings started gaining predominance. And with maverick artists creating waves with their extraordinary work, the future for photo realists indeed seems bright. In contrast to these types of art, expressionist paintings lay a lot of importance on subjectivity of abstraction are have not lost its craze among the present day art lovers.

In the late 1960’s, a group of artists emerged in the USA and gave birth to this new form of painting that Meisel termed the group at an exhibition in 1969 as ‘photo realist’s.  Unlike expressionist art which later culminated into abstract expressionism, photorealist paintings are averse to the concept of attempting to initiate a conversation through varied use of colors and convey strong feelings and emotions of the artist. These pieces of art simply explore reality by creating pictures out of photographs. No use of oil, watercolor or acrylic colors, this mode of painting has given birth to a  plethora of pioneers like Tom Blackwell, Don Eddy and Chuck Close, to name a few.

In this style of art, photo realists mostly use a camera and the photograph to get some information. After that he or she systematically transfers this information to the canvas. The process can be either a mechanical pr a semi-mechanical one. Under no circumstances should the artist forget the primary goal of this art, which is to enlarge the present version of the picture in the photograph and yet make it seem like the latter. For doing this, the artist must resort to a style that is precise and make the execution a vigorous process. What is important to note is that the painting must resemble the photograph, which clearly implies that this art form just cannot exist without the photo itself. The challenge for the artist lies in accurately producing the frame changes and movement on the canvas just as the original photo captured. Despite the skill required to do all this, these paintings are held as shallow spaced images in comparison to expressionist paintings which emphasizes depth in spatial representations and contains a feel to it that is no doubt, attention grabbing.

Photo realists are careful when choosing their subjects, so that they do not capture mundane or common scenes. The choice can be an ugly reality and even move to something so beautiful that it cannot be explained in words. The techniques used for this type of painting helps in the transfer of the image on a canvas by the grid method or with projectors. Finally, the photorealist paintings are produced, where the final touches are given by a bristle or an airbrush.

There are divided opinions about the aspect of photorealism but this is not to deny that the work of finesse produced will be cherished throughout.

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