Photorealism is an art genre that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistic as possible in another medium.
The movement emerged within the same period and context as conceptual art, pop art or pop art, and minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art over idealism and abstraction.
The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Surrealism) was coined in reference to these artists whose work relied heavily on photographs, which were often projected on screen, allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy.
