HYPER REAL
 
 
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HYPER REAL

 

Nat, 1972-1973

 
 
Illustration Chuck Close

A photo is a photo, but is sometimes a painting after all. 'Hyper Real' tours Europe

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...

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