Photorealism

Art is defined as "The expression or application of human (showing the ability to create interesting new things) skill and imagination, usually in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated mostly for their beauty or emotional power." It is communicated in huge numbers of branches of (showing the ability to create interesting new things) activity, some of these include music, painting, dance and books. Although, there should be no fixed definition of art as it

The Whitney exhibition, New Image Painting had the idea to display art that mixed classical and popular art. Marcia Tucker would call this medium “Bad Painting” because artists discarded the classical drawing methods to create personal views of the world. The exhibition itself become monumental in which unfolded within the space. This art followed the idea of neo expressionism where it offered a refreshing alternative to the unflinching abstraction and industrial forms of minimal art. The use of

Biography: Chuck Thomas Close Chuck Thomas Close was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington. He is an American artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealistic painter. He is a portrait painter whose work is realistic. His paintings offer visual pleasure. He is well-known for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face. He was the son of Leslie and Mildred Close who is also into art. During Close’s childhood, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, facial blindness, and

One of my favorite Art Master is Chuck Close. He is a modern American Painter and ex-photographer in which he is very well known in the Photorealism movement. However, people around the globe now know him for his painting’s style. Chuck Close has a beautiful collection of portraits of himself, his love ones, and those who are impor- tant to him. Among all his masterpieces, I really like Self Portrait, the one that he created in 2004-2005. In that portrait, he is facing forward where he used oil paint

naturalist/zoologist and artist he was torn between the two worlds, but the radiolaria helped him merge the two. Speed was imperative given the short survival rate of the organisms.. His depictions of the Radiolaria though showed no attempt at photorealism, did, however capture his sense of order. Unlike the artworks we have looked at so far, the radiolaria can be categorised under art nouveau with influences on works of other artists to follow. His work had enormous fascinating pattern permutations

Photorealism is a genre of art that creates photographic images which blend the real and the unreal. Édouard Manet’s painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, utilizes photorealism to depict the scene of a young barmaid standing behind a bar table in a lively cabaret music hall, facing the viewer with an exhausted, serious expression and awaiting her patron's order. The painting plays with our sense of reality by including a mirror that shows a strange man and the oblique-angled reflections of the barmaid

To what extent has photography influenced the history and the development of contemporary painting?   Contents Abstract Page 3 Introduction Page 4 History of Photography in relations to Painting Page 5 Influence of Photography on Andy Warhol’s Paintings Page 9 Page 1 Page 1 Influence of Photography on Gerhard Richter’s Paintings Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 Influence of Photography on Luc Tuymans’ Paintings Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 Conclusion Page 1 Abstract – Cornelis Le Mair Throughout my time

Chuck Close Chuck Close, a visual artist who used inventive techniques to paint photo realistic portraits of the human face. From growing up with severe dyslexia to a rare spinal artery collapse that left him paralyzed, Chuck Close overcame all of his obstacles and continued to paint and create portraits throughout his career. Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington. Leslie Durward Close, Mildred Wagner Close, and brother Martin Close were a big influence in his early

Social responsibility is a commitment every individual has to help better and keep our society as a whole. Art conveys social responsibility. What would our world be if humanity ignored the arts? Whether our society is aware of how dependent they are or if they’re oblivious they do hold the responsibility to support and practice Art. Art is our past, present, and future. Art is a means of communication, expression, and documentation of our historical events, thus as a society, it is humanities responsibility

The Musicians “In art criticism, the word Baroque came to be used to describe anything irregular, bizarre, or otherwise departing from established rules and proportions,” (Britannica, 2016). Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi (1571), an Italian painter, can be said almost single-handedly to have created the Baroque style during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. None other can be more appropriately defined as “Baroque” than Caravaggio; his character, like his art, was confrontational