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Jeune fille à la plage
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
£399
Main Entrance WPKiW
Sylwia Wozniczka
Painting - 140 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
£1,375
Diamond Drops
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,661
Old woman living near sea
Vu Nhu Hai
Painting - 88.9 x 94 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 37 x 2 inch
£4,471
Seated Figure
John De Andrea
Sculpture - 83.8 x 63.5 x 137.2 cm Sculpture - 33 x 25 x 54 inch
£121,934
Light and shadow drawing
Carlos Diaz
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£4,347
Deep blue waters
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,064 £2,845
World of instincts
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,064
Vendeur de mangues avec petite fille
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£1,135
Killer whales
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,382
Vendeur de Glaces
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
£2,129
#501 Queen Angelfish portrait
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£355
Golden Monkey
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 32 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
£1,109
Daffy
Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,460
L'Eau des Merveilles
Sophie Duplain
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1 inch
£1,242
Unchained soul
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 121.9 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 44 x 1 inch
£2,032
The decision
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,097
Alexei Odintsov
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 80 x 55 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,198
Cocora XIV (1)
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
£2,040
Vallée de Cocora
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,952
Modou, Exit serie
Baptiste Laurent
Sculpture - 25 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
£665
Untitled XXIV. From the Series Chiromorphose
Nico Baixas / Gos-com-fuig
Photography - 49.8 x 49.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.6 x 19.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,016
My Purple Heart
Meshach Charity
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
£3,089
Couverture pliée
Andrii Kyrychenko
Sculpture - 65 x 30 x 35 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 11.8 x 13.8 inch
£8,428
Golden Ratio
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£5,323
A dandy in the garden of black roses
Ramonn Vieitez
Painting - 50 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,032
I've been here for about three months
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 59 x 33 x 27 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 13 x 10.6 inch
£5,365
My father came over from England
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 80 x 42 x 30 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 16.5 x 11.8 inch
£5,365
La liberté bafouée
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£177
Excentrique
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£177
Les soleils d'Hiroshima
Gabriel Froget
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£5,323
Jeune fille à la perle 2.021
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£3,105
Usage de la censure
Andrii Kyrychenko
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
£7,807
Par amour du goût (1)
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 2 inch
£399
Intimité
Philippe Huart
Fine Art Drawings - 96 x 67 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 37.8 x 26.4 x 0.4 inch
£3,548
Test de apercepción temática
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,484
The terrifying night of the first transformation
Ramonn Vieitez
Painting - 50 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,032
To lose the fear - II
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 110 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£2,439
Triple portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£5,323
Hyperrealism
"What links these artists is first of all a hyperrealism of its individuals, a critique of society, a 'social determinism,' a window to reflect on our own inhabitance of the world," describes curator Hervé Mikaeloff, on the selection of this year's theme "Portrait and Figuration. A look at the French scene" at the Art Paris Art Fair. He has chosen to include various hyperrealist artists, including Pei-Ming Yan, Laurent Grasso, Dorian Cohen and Marc Desgrandchamps.
In the history of art, the 20th century is shaped by a succession of artistic trends. What do they all have in common? The race to abstraction. From Picasso's cubism to Pollock's abstract expressionism, through Duchamp's art brut, conceptual or minimalist art, all schools seek to emancipate themselves from the centuries of painting behind them where commitment to accurately portraying the subject took precedence over the creative process.
In 1973, hyperrealism appeared. It was a revival of figurative art. Seen alternately as a breaking away from, or on the contrary by some as an extension of pop art and the pictorial technique of its precursors Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, hyperrealism corresponds to the ultra-realistic representation of a person, an object, a landscape... No kind of subject is favored as each artist has their own trademark style.
The term hyperrealism, even though it developed mainly in the United States, comes from the French. The Belgian art dealer Isy Brachot was the first to use it in 1973 as the title of an exhibition in his Brussels gallery. He exhibited influential American and European photorealists (realist photographers), including Chuck Close (who specialized in enlarged identity photographs), Ralph Goings (in automobiles), Richter and Delcol...
From that moment on, "hyperrealists" came to mean all the painters and sculptors influenced by the photorealists. However, unlike the latter, who show absolute objectivity towards the model they capture, hyperrealist painters omit or add details that allow a better overall reading of the subject, one that is "truer" than the visible reality. Unlike photography, the contemporary hyperrealist painting plays on the narrative, the emotions of the viewer. It takes a stand on social, cultural and political themes.
Discover all aspects of hyperrealism in this selection of unique artworks: paintings by Richard Harper, sculptures by Charlotte Champion and much more...