"Photorealist paintings" refer to artworks that are created in a highly detailed and precise manner, closely resembling a photograph. These paintings are so realistic that they can sometimes be mistaken for actual photographs. Full definition
[4][5][6] Graham Thompson wrote «One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (en.wikipedia.org)
About Chuck Close Chuck Close, born in Monroe, Washington in 1940, received a BFA (1963) and an MFA (1964) from Yale University and, upon graduation, abandoned the Abstract Expressionist style to work with photographs as source material for photorealist paintings, notably the 21 - foot - wide Big Nude (1967). (nsuartmuseum.org)
Whether Betty Tompkins» monumental photorealist paintings of sexual acts, Marilyn Minter's Porn Grid photography series or Renate Bertlmann's sculptures combining dildoes and cacti, their work was considered way too raunchy and transgressive for the male - dominated art world and even too hardcore for mainstream feminism. (telegraph.co.uk)