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INTRODUCTION TO ART AND
HISTORY

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NAME: AISYAH BINTI TAJUDIN
NO MATRIC: 19DRG21F2008
SESSION: 2 2021/2022

LECTURER NAME: MR. FIKRI BIN ABDUL RAHMAN

PHOTOREALISM

PHOTOREALISM

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses
painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which
an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to
reproduce the image as realistically as possible in
another medium.

Definition

The word Photorealism was coined by
Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and appeared
in print for the first time in 1970 in a
Whitney Museum catalogue for the
show "Twenty-two Realists. It is also
sometimes labeled as Super-Realism,
New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or
Hyper-Realism

Styles

Photorealist painting cannot exist
without the photograph. In
Photorealism, change and movement
must be frozen in time which must
then be accurately represented by
the artist. Photorealists gather their
imagery and information with the
camera and photograph.

Artists

1.Richard Estes
2.Chuck Close

3. John salt

RICHARD ESTES

Richard Estes born May 14, 1932 in
Kewanee, Illinois. Richard Estes live in
American. The paintings generally
consist of reflective, clean, and
inanimate city and geometric
landscapes.

ARTWORK RICHARD ESTES

Telephone Booths
1967

Richard Estes is held to be one of the foremost
practitioners of American Photorealism. Most of
his paintings portray urban landscapes and
specific details of life in big cities, particularly New
York, as with the present Telephone Booths
executed in 1967. The starting point for the
composition was several photographs he took of a
row of telephone booths located at the
intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 34th
Street, which the artist combined and transformed
into a pictorial motif.

Rare undated poster
published on the
occasion of Este's
exhibition at the Art
Institute of Chicago. This
work was hand signed by
Estes for us personally in
2015 at a private talk he
gave for his retrospective
at the Museum of Design

in NYC.

he is regarded as one of the founders of the
Photorealist movement which emerged in America in the

late 1960s. His paintings, in reproduction at least, may
remind us of photography, and Estes has always used
the camera to collect and record information from which
he can paint, but he has never been concerned with

copying the appearance of a photograph.

CHUCK CLOSE

Chuck Close born July 5, 1940.
Chuck Close was American painter, visual

artist, and photographer who made
massive-scale photorealistand abstract
portraits of himself and others. Close also
created photo portraits using a very large
format camera. He adapted his painting

style

ARTWORK CHUCK CLOSE

Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968. Acrylic on an oversized art-world presence for more
canvas. than half a century. As Roberta Smith

pointed out in her compelling New York
Times appraisal, Close’s career had three
phases: the enormous photo-realist, mostly
black and white portraits and self-portraits
that brought him instant fame; the looser,

more colorful,

date:2000. style:photorealism. self- Close began taking
portrait art lessons as a child
and at age 14 saw an
exhibition of Jackson

Pollock’s abstract
paintings, which
helped inspire him to
become a painter

A self-portrait by Chuck Close on display at a subway station in New York

The artist himself projected an
impressive authorial persona. At 6’3”
with a deep voice, a quick wit and a
kind of goofy face, he was so widely
liked and so ubiquitous that he was

once called the “Mayor of SoHo.”

JOHN SALT

John Salt born 2 August 1937. John
Salt was an English artist. The greatly
detailed paintings from the late 1960s
onwards made him one of the
pioneers of the photorealist school.

ARTWORK JOHN SALT

White Chevy – Red Trailer (1975), Airbrushed acrylic
on canvas.

Salt's pictures generally feature wrecked cars and
decrepit mobile homes in semi-rural locations in the
United States. They are produced from photographs by
projecting transparencies onto canvas and using an

airbrush and stencils to reproduce the colour – a
painstaking process that can take up to two years to

complete.

Red Mailbox 2 by John Salt, painted in casein on linen, 2015.Photograph: Louis K Meisel Gallery

Photorealism conveyed the everyday and derived from
its source material a sense of the chance configuration of

captured moments. It was dismissed by US critics as
shallow, in that beyond the technical prowess required to

produce a painting identical to a photograph, there
remained little of interest

General Store, Charlotteville, NY’ 2012
Watercolour on paper, 34.2 x 52.7 cm