Basic Introduction to Photorealism

Photorealism is the representative painter of American hyperrealism, also known as photorealism.

The American hyperrealism, also known as photorealism, is the representative painter of American hyperrealism. In California, a group of young artists attempted to break the dominance of abstraction by using hyper-realistic paintings with expressive qualities. On the East Coast, interest in realism also emerged in the 1950s. In the Yale University Art Department, there were many famous hyper-realistic painters, and Cross was an excellent representative. Cross used portraits as his subject matter, and his portraits were exact replicas of photographs, not only detailed and precise to the extreme, but also on such a large scale that a monochrome photograph would take four months to paint, and a color one would take 14 months. His paintings are large and realistic from a distance, but partially abstract and unreal when viewed up close; he uses realistic images to reveal a real illusion, an abstraction within the figurative. In the usual viewing distance, the whole picture can not be included in the field of vision, the viewer can only look at one part by one part, and these details, which cause the overall realism, are far from the real thing when viewed separately. For example, the hair and beard in his paintings are never drawn one by one, but are just dots and swirls when viewed closely, which are not only not like things, but like abstract patterns. Therefore, his extremely realistic works lead people to the opposite conclusion: the photo, which has always been regarded as the most real, is in fact an illusion synthesized by a number of strange flat traces that have nothing to do with the entity, and the real is illusioned by the unreal. As the saying goes, "When it's not real, it's not real at all." People are confused. Photorealism, with its absolute realism, unexpectedly makes us rethink the real and the fake.

Kloss drew portraits and cityscapes from photographs, projecting headshots onto gridded canvases and painting with an airbrush, completing a painting in about three to six months. The representative works are the Self-Portraits of various periods, since then photorealism has become a clear creative tendency into painting. Oil painter Leng Jun is the leading figure of Chinese contemporary hyper-realistic oil painting. Leng Jun is the most representative painter of Chinese contemporary hyper-realist oil painting. Leng Jun's super-realism style is unique in the Chinese painting world. His works are characterized by extreme realism. His works are characterized by their extreme realism, and his images are exquisite and subtle. At the same time, due to the penetration of contemporary themes and contents, the viewer can also be mentally shaken and shaken by the overall tension. Leng Jun's sketching is used as a way to ensure the vividness, richness and reliability of the information source of the picture, as well as to stimulate the expression of action. When painting, he tends to get close to the object, scanning to look for and experience each required detail, local depth and overall view, and strive for the full picture, the perfect unity of the details and the overall effect.