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Race Track (South Africa)
Malcolm Morley began to make photorealist paintings in the sixties. He used brochures and postcards intended for tourists as a starting point, which depicted warships, luxury cruises, cabins, and carefree travellers.
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Chuck Close is one of the best-known representatives of hyper-realist style; the feature of such a descriptive painting that it uses not the material environment but its photograph as a model. Close began to paint his friends, his colleagues and later his family using drawings, polaroid photograp
Soft Pink Landscape
At the beginning of the 1950s, advertising renews with the increase of mass-cultural consumption in the United Kingdom; Richard Hamilton is among the first artists to integrate the features of the new visual culture into his work.
Landscape #4
Tom WESSELMANN’s art played an important part in the emergence of the Ludwigs’ collection—the piece held in Budapest is in fact of key significance in this regard as well.
Rappaport Pharmacy
Richard Estes is one of the key figures of Photo-realism; although he does not identify with the movement, rather considers himself a painter in the "traditional sense".
“I, who have enormous difficulty keeping up with things” (Michel Leiris)
Gérard Gasiorowski’s first successes date back to his photorealist paintings of the early seventies, but his paintings were often misinterpreted, as his aim was not to show technical virtuosity, but to analyse the possibilities of representation and painting, accompanied by a strong critical atti