Berkeley Pinto (John de Andrea and his Family next to Bechtles Car), 1976
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| Illustration | Robert Bechtle |
A photograph or a painting? Sometimes it can be hard to tell. Some artists are apt at blurring the boundaries between the two disciplines to such a degree, one has to look twice to spot it.
The name of the game is photorealism, super-realism, some dub it radical realism or hyper realism. It's all about the 'passion of the real in art and photography'.
The new realist art emerged by the end of the 1960s, alongside Pop Art. Artists such...
