Definition of "photorealism" []

• Alternative spelling of photo-realism. (noun)

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• "Mr. Meisel coined the term photorealism in the 1960s; his holdings include the works by Chuck Close hanging in the warehouse entry."
• "After a period in which Andy Warhol and others fascinatingly blurred photography and painting, many portraitists responded to this competition with so-called photorealism."
• "r me is an early master of what we now refer to as photorealism, and yet his "technicolor" paintings exude more "realism" than the actual photo props on view the immense and beautifully illustrated catalog refers to this as "accurate depictions of an imagined world.""