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Hyperrealist painters at once simulate and improve upon precise photographic images to produce optically convincing visual illusions of reality, often in a social or cultural context. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Some hyperrealists have exposed totalitarian regimes and third world military governments through their narrative depictions of the legacy of hatred ...
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author renowned for her superrealist and hyperrealist art. [1] [2] She is recognized as one of the pioneering artists of the hyperrealist movement in the late 1970s and is best known for her figurative works of swimmers and dancers. Feuerman utilizes a variety of mediums including resin ...
Dennis Wojtkiewicz (born 1956) is an American Hyperrealist painter and draughtsman. [2] Wojtkiewicz graduated from Southern Illinois University and is an artist associated with the Hyperrealist movement. He is best known for his large scale renderings of sliced fruit and flowers.
William Woodward (March 11, 1935 – June 14, 2023) [1] was an American painter and muralist from Washington, D.C. He is known for his mural commissions throughout the United States and a number of his pieces are in the permanent collections of major museums.
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
John N. Robinson (February 8, 1912 – October 17, 1994) was an African-American artist who lived and worked in Washington, D.C. He made realist paintings showing the people and places of his family home, his neighborhood, and the city in which he lived.
William (Bill) R. Dunlap is an American artist, writer, and arts commentator on Washington, DC's flagship PBS station, WETA-TV. With a career that has spanned more than four decades, his large scale narrative paintings and constructions concern themselves with history, allegory and the art making process.
John Grazier (June 23, 1946 – December 27, 2022) was an American realist painter, working with India ink airbrush, pencil and oil paint.He is an American artist of the late-20th century known for his meticulous cross-hatching technique, [1] skewed perspective, [2] and a "dreamlike" representation of seemingly ordinary subjects, [3] [4] such as buses, coffee cups, [5] office buildings, [6 ...