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.
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Precursors
Important precursors include the Dutch school of painting, most notably and best-known Vermeer, but also the the photorealists of Dutch Golden Age painting, before Vermeer.
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See also
- Hyperrealism (painting)
- Contemporary Art
- Pop Art
- Abstract Expressionism
- Western Art
- Western Painting
- History of Art
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