These artists famously focus on capturing man-made environments and objects featuring reflective surfaces and architectural details.
This allows them to truly show off their impressive technical prowess.
Here are six masters of the Photorealism movement you should know.
While they appear as direct copies of photographs, Estes paintings are actually made using multiple images.
This grid system allows the artist to make a kind of geographical survey of his subjects face.
A face is a road map of someone’s life.
His polished paintings were sometimes criticized for lacking artistic expression, but this only spurred on the artist more.
To copy a photograph literally was considered a bad thing to do.
I was having a hell of a lot of fun.
In other series, Bell painted marbles placed on reflective surfaces and silhouetted against dark backdrops.
Using paint, he accentuated their curved shape and colorful, swirling patterns with incredible life-like detail.
Shes famous for her contemporary versions ofstill life paintings.
Photorealists painted cars, motorcycles and empty street scenes.
Cool, unemotional and banal were the terms used to describe the movement.
My work, however, was humanist, emotional and filled with referential symbolic imagery.
He has a background in advertising but left his office job in 1972 to pursue his artistic career full-time.
His works document and memorialize a bygone era.
Baeder often tells stories of each establishment he visited.
He had a photo of this diner.
I couldn’t bear seeing it so small and knew it had to be painted.
It was a way of preserving the picture rather than the diner.
It was at that point that I began to pursue the diner as subject matter.
