Photorealism
フォトリアリズム / 1968–1980s / Style / Postwar American Art
Mouvement qui transpose la photographie dans la peinture et restitue à la main la densité d'information saisie par l'œil mécanique. Vitrines réfléchissantes, chromes déformés, néons de diner : les motifs se fixent sur la toile avec la mise au point, le grain et l'aberration chromatique propres à la photographie. On ne peint pas ce que l'on voit, mais ce que l'appareil a vu ainsi.
Reflets et hautes lumières d'origine photographique / Profondeur de champ peinte telle quelle / Motifs commerciaux urbains / Surface lisse sans trace de pinceau
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Product imagery of chrome, glass and liquid that must read as photographed rather than illustrated, where a rendering has to acquire lens behaviour to be believed · Editorial and campaign work about consumer culture, where the gloss on the surface is itself the argument
- Typographie
- A neutral grotesque set small and cold, used as caption rather than headline so the image keeps all the voltage.
- Composition
- One frontal image cropped so the principal reflection falls at the optical centre, with type confined to a single band at the edge.
- Matière
- High-gloss stock or an untextured screen, ink laid perfectly smooth so no substrate grain competes with the photographic grain inside the image.
- Précaution
- Cleaning up the lens artefacts: polish out the focus fall-off, the grain and the fringing and the picture stops reading as a photograph made by hand, leaving airless illustration.
- Pour approfondir
- Airbrush technique and grid transfer / The presentation at documenta 5 in 1972 / The role of the photograph as an intermediary term