photorealistadj.n.
/ˌfəʊtəʊˈrɪəlɪst/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdoʊˈriələst/ Art.
A. adj.
Designating or relating to work produced in the style of photorealism.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > photorealist
photographic1855
super-realist1945
hyperreal1973
photorealist1973
1973 Art Internat. Mar. 49/1 Curators, critics, teachers, and writers all over the world, who come to it looking for women's art of every sort from photo-realist to conceptual.
1994 New Yorker 5 Dec. 36/3 Flawless (if not always interesting) Photo-Realist portraits of animals in unusual circumstances.
2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 86/2 The tabloids present a composite photorealist portrait of a country as wealthy.
B. n.
An exponent of photorealism; an artist working in a photorealist style.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > photorealism > artist
super-realist1919
hyperrealist1972
photorealist1977
1977 It June 5/4 About a foot away from it..hover a ghastly mob of poofs, lesbians, photo realists and deviants of every conceivable kind.
1986 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Trav. in Hyper Reality i. 4 It is now being taken up by artists who formerly might have been photorealists, and it satisfies the most ambitious ambitions of photorealism.
2000 Art Rev. Dec. 55/3 I think the original 1970s photorealists wanted to make something more photograph-like than a photo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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