Hyperrealism

Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures.

Hyperrealism (painting)
This article is about the art movement of Hyperrealism. In painting and sculpture the phrase "Hyperrealism" is used to describe a photorealistic rendering of people, landscapes and scenes.

Hyperrealism

Hyperrealism is an emerging school of painting that grew out of the American school of photorealism.

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Photorealism is the genre of painting resembling a photograph, most recently seen in the splinter hyperrealism art movement.

Also Known As: Realism, Radical Realism, Sharp-Focus Realism, Super-Realism, New Realism, Hyperrealism.
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But Titian, somewhat competitively, carries Giorgione's realism a step further in the way the sleeve billows out and invades our space, extending the boundaries of Giorgionismo in a burst of hyperrealism.

At the other extreme from Minimalism is the ultra-representational art form of photorealism (superrealism, hyperrealism).

See also: Painting, Realism, Movement, Photorealism, Art movement