ALMOST ALIVE/ HYPERREALISTIC SCULPTURE IN ART

From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, different sculptors became involved with a mode of realism based on the physically lifelike appear ance of the human body. By deploying traditional techniques of modelling, casting and painting in order to recreate human figures th ey follow different approaches towards a contemporary form of figural realism. The sculptures show how the way we see our bodies has been subject to constant change.