variants:
or less commonly photo-realism
Definition of photorealism
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: the quality in art (such as animation or painting) of depicting or seeming to depict real people, objects, etc. with the exactness of a photograph
Luca is largely a departure from the sort of animation style we're used to seeing in Pixar movies, swapping photorealism for something more stylised …— Patrick Cremona Photorealism in gaming means the characters and scenery are supposed to mirror real life in visuals as closely as possible.— Elizabeth Gipe [Robyn] Penn works from found images … and in the process of painting brings a ghostly, ephemeral quality to the photorealism of the documented ice-scapes.— Alexandra Dodd
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: a movement in painting characterized by photographic exactness of detail
A couple of years later his friend and fellow tennis pro Vitas Gerulaitis introduced him to photorealism. Now that's really art, McEnroe thought. It looks just like photographs.— Franz Lidz
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The first known use of photorealism was in 1961
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