Photorealism

Rarity: Uncommon

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Notion

Domain

Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

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