Hyperrealism &
Photorealism
In Colombia
some examples, it can be stated that
the references of hyperrealism and
photorealism have been constantly
present. Interest for both styles and
concepts has been present from generation
Although hyperrealism is known as an artistic to generation. It is also the case of artists movement that came out of the U.S. in the who are around 40 years old, who have an 1970s, it is also a reference that helps us explain important recognition and vast trajectories, a style, a graphical or pictorial representation such as Saúl Sánchez, Marco Mojica, Ricardo in different moments of history. The word León, Rodrigo Echeverri, among others. This
“hyperrealism” is associated with the visual reference has even arrived to a generation that result of the work of artists that use grids, lens is today between twenty and thirty years old, projections, etc., with the idea of representing which is acquiring force strongly by exposing reality with extreme detail. Another concept, these types of works everywhere, like Mateo
photorealism, refers to the process of accurately López, Esteban Peña, Gonzalo García (Sr. reproducing an image through a painting Conejo), Diego Piñeros, Alejandro Sánchez or drawing, but this time exclusively from a and Sebastián Camacho. photograph.
There is sometimes talk in art about passing
In Colombia, since the 1970s with Darío trends followed by many unoriginal artists, but Morales, Saturnino Ramírez, Santiago and if we talk about tendencies for a change, it is
Juan Cárdenas, and towards the end of the undeniable that through them we can perceive decade with Óscar Muñoz, just to mention and analyze symptoms of what is really 160