Photorealism
Photorealism is a developed mainly in the United States following the Pop Art style extremely naturalistic painting.
Formation
He emerged in the late 1960s and early 70s. As the first public appearance of the documenta 5 in Kassel can be considered in 1972. The paintings and sculptures of the " US-American Photorealism " broke long-standing taboos against an imaging realism existed primarily in Germany and were formed in distinction from the Art in the time of National Socialism and against the Socialist Realism.
The irritation caused not least from the failure to recognize the artistic intention of photorealism, whose artists were less interested in certain sections of the reality rather than at the exact possible implementation of the representation of photography in painting and the resulting effects and possibilities. The reproduction of reproductions as -conceived and painted images appear when they - are shown only in re- reproduction and thus reduced to that of which they were based, as a photo - as well as here. It is characterized by the continuous up to the deception of the eye detail naturalism. Such fatal reality confusion and uncertainty image solidified the accusation that this art is mere Kopistenvirtuosität, sheer Photo and reality imitation. What, however, how a photo looks in the picture, can be seen in the original the key features of an interpretation of reality, of his own pictorial reality.
As Template Photorealism used mostly a slide or more with everyday subjects from their surroundings. Their relationship over the content of their images should be neutral and objective as possible. They preferred designs with richly detailed, specific, often reflective surfaces.
The Photorealists a specialization emerges in which every artist aspires technical mastery and virtuosity in a relatively limited subject area. This assignment possibilities were lost by the elimination of the personal signature of the artist. So Richard McLean showed mainly breeding horses and their proud owners, Chuck Close oversized head portraits, Richard Estes reflective shop windows, Robert Cottingham writings of neon signs, Ralph Goings cars and fast food restaurants, Don Eddy intact and John Salt battered and rusted cars, David Parrish Motorcycles, John Clem Clark and John Kacere girl acts and Ben closed season packages.
In Europe, particularly the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch pursued photorealistic objectives. His concern was mainly to the presence of his characters, the depiction of the lifestyle of the 1970s. He showed his friends, a group of performance artists, and family photos. " I need to feel in the templates, the ability to use my picturesque media image-wise to capture life" ( Gertsch ).
The motivation behind the photo realism overlaps to a large extent with the 2D and 3D computer graphics, always generate realistic images, but is set to painting.
Other representatives of photorealism include Robert Bechtle, Roberto Bernardi, Robert Cottingham, Richard McLean, Raimond Staprans, Howard Kanovitz, Chuck Monroe, Stephen Posen, John Salt, Paul Sarkisian, Ben closed season, Raphaella Spence, Paul Staiger, Gottfried Helnwein ( teilw assign. hyperrealism ) in Germany Jan Peter Tripp, Gerhard Richter, Matthias Dutch, Fritz Köthe, in France Jean -Olivier Hucleux.
The photo-realism is related to the hyper-realism ( differences are explained in hyper realism).