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Photorealism

Photorealism. Is it a photo?. Photorealism. An art movement of the 60’s and 70’s These artist reacted to the abstract expressionist movement and increasingly abstract and nonobjective art by drawing so realistic that it sometimes exceeded the detail in a photograph

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Photorealism

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  1. Photorealism Is it a photo?

  2. Photorealism • An art movement of the 60’s and 70’s • These artist reacted to the abstract expressionist movement and increasingly abstract and nonobjective art by drawing so realistic that it sometimes exceeded the detail in a photograph • This was done with griding, projectors, and sometimes even painting over a photograph

  3. Chuck Close These are not photographs

  4. Chuck Close One of the most famous artists of the photorealism movement. He is known for his massive portraits that achieve a remarkable level of realism He achieve this using a complex griding system that utilizes a pixel-like format He has been known to work 2 years on a single print In 1988 Chuck Close relearned to draw when he had become quadriplegic.

  5. Audrey Flack

  6. Audrey Flack • Originally a frustrated abstract artist, Audrey Flack became a member of the photorealism movement. • She often paints still-lives in rich, colorful, and often in more detail then one would actually see. • She was the first artist of this movement to get into the collections of the Museum of Modern art in 1966. • She would project a slide directly onto her canvas. She would apply the color through the project image, for this method she used airbrush

  7. Some Terms • Griding: A method of drawing based on drawing a grid over a source image and another grid on your canvas. • This helps you see the proportions and shapes more accurately Rule of Thirds: An idea developed in photograph that says if you place important aspects of your photoraph along the lines that divide you image into thirds

  8. So what is the point? • What are some reasons that you would draw hyper-realistic? • Do these image violate copy-right laws? Why or why not.

  9. Dorothea Lange

  10. Dorothea Lange • A female photographer made famous by her images of struggle and hardship during the depression. • She used these images to document the plight of the poor and to motivate others to do something about it. • She was a part of the Farm Security Administration, a small group of photographers hired to publicize the condition of poor rural people in America. • She was also hired during WWII to document the interment of Japanese-Americans. After the war she did assignments for Life Magazine.

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