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Peter Bonney Artist In The Hyper Realist Genre
“As I understand it the difference between ‘photo real’ and ‘hyper real’ is that photo real precisely copies a photo and looks exactly like the copied photo, where hyper real has the appearance of a photo but is still painterly and doesn’t necessarily portray an actual photographed scene.”
“That’s why I call myself hyper realist and not photo realist”
REALISM
“In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way” … TATE GALLERY