"The photorealistic style of painting was uniquely tight, precise, and sharply mechanical with an emphasis on mundane everyday imagery, as it was an evolvement from Pop Art." - New Britain Museum of American Art
This independent art movement developed in Europe and the United States in the early 2000's. Hyperrealism is a "genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution photograph." In this style of painting, more emphasis is put on the details and subjects. Subtle elements are utilized to create an illusion that can't be seen by the human eye and in reality doesn't exist. The subject matter of hyperreal paintings varies between still life, portraits, figurative art, cityscapes, and narrative scenes. Recently however, the style has become more literal than photorealism. Images are usually between 10 and 20 times the size of the original photographic source. Even at this size, they are able to achieve great detail and extremely high resolution in color. Alicia St.Rose, Chuck Close, Istvan Sandorfi, and Denis Peterson are all influential hyperrealist painters of the 21st century.
I photograph very small details within my subjects and its imperative that my colors stand out. My final images are scenes that can not be seen by the human eye. The transformation I'm able to capture is unreal. Just like in hyperreal painting, I also blow up my images between 10 and 20 times its original size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperrealism_(painting)
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