Photorealism  

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Photorealism is the genre of painting resembling a photograph, most recently seen in the splinter hyperrealism art movement. However, the term is primarily applied to paintings from the American photorealism art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Precursors

Important precursors include the Dutch school of painting, most notably and best-known Vermeer, but als the Heda family.

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