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noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
Also, photo realism.
Also called sharp-focus realism, superrealism.
Related forms
pho·to·re·al·ist, noun, adjective
pho·to·re·al·is·tic, adjective
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