PHOTOREALISM

The Photorealists are devoted to the veneer of the modern everyday life and the mirrored world of surfaces. Reflective shop windows, limousines with shiny chrome, garishly colored plastic kitsch, and urban scenes have been their favourite subjects for fifty years. In a complicated process using technical aids, the artists create painted illusions by photographing their source materials, transf erring them with the aid of slide projectors or scans, and then capturing them precisely on canvas using a brush or spray gun.With t exts by ...[Llegir més]