[Billy_bob_bob]

There is an excellent new movement in the art world called "Photorealism", creating paintings that look as if they were captured with a camera, but with interpretations of the light and shadow that only a painter can do. It's really something, and a definite finger in the eye of the "modern art" (more like "Moron art") world. I really like the work I've seen from the photorealistic art world, and I'm hoping to see a whole lot more in the future.

[weegee]

I thought that photorealism had been around since at least the 1970s. Some of it is amazing but some of it comes across so cold and sterile as to leave the viewer wondering why they bothered.