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Forum Name: Modern Art - Classic Art - New Art
Topic ID: 8
Message ID: 4
#4, RE: Postmodern Realism
Posted by Ilia on 14-Jun-02 at 00:39 AM
In response to message #3
LAST EDITED ON 14-Jun-02 AT 00:40 AM (PST)
 
Hi Abvg,

>Nevertheless, my immediate and longer lasting
>reaction was - why bother? If the artist had
>just taken a photo of the scene and had it
>enlarged, he would have saved himself a lot of
>trouble. Just recently, I have seen many similar
>examples.


I agree, personally I like to "see the paint" and would prefer an abstract piece to the perfectly rendered but otherwise stale work. However I remember a first show in Moscow of American photorealism about 15 years ago, a few pieces were "mysteriously poetic" in it's freeze-a-moment tranquility.

And as you say "on general and personal" note I would conceder photorealism more of a conceptual art than a
painting in it's modern sense.

...I wonder what if Rembrandt or Giotto or... could have seen at least one of such (photorealism) paintings...