Photorealism is a genre of art covering painting, drawing and other graphic media in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. It started as an art movement in America in the 1960’s. It evolved from Pop Art and is really a counter to Abstract Expressionism with an acceptance that the use of photographs as the basis for an artwork is acceptable. Although some parts of the art world were critical of the use of such photographic technology although since the 15th Century artists had used various aids to support their final creation. Although photorealism is very different to the work of Edward Hopper ,who is categorised as a realist, they do generate similar emotions in the observer. Edward Hopper's work has always impressed me generating what I call a "mood" element. The British equivalent for photorealism would be David Shepherd who covered a variety of subjects. I have viewed his originals at an exhibition at the Art in Nature Museum , Gloucester where bringing my eyes right up close within inches of the canvas I was at his fine detailed brush strokes. The exhibution was of a number of his paintings but to my knowlege they only have one he donated as a permanent fixture. This attention to fine detail is what photrealism is all about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism
So is DMB Publishing essentially being technology
focussed interested in photorealism? Firstly I wanted to apply photorealism to
English settings to capture the emotional feeling these settings stimulate in
the observer. Secondly I wanted to do it differently in that I wanted to use a video
zoom out to view the created artwork then to use Google Street View to go
directly to the scene in the real world where the observer can then continue to
explorer both the same painted scene and then continue to explore other areas
around the painted scene. The whole visual activity would have a suitable
backing music track. All this was to be included seamlessly in a single internet
object. The idea was this whole package would then be a piece of artwork in
itself. So this is a future project. But to give you a taster for this “experience”
use the two links below one immediately after the other. It will take you to sunny California.
https://twitter.com/currently4_20/status/1355155418390126592?s=21
