Hyperrealism with Tom Mulliner

You can't have a photoreal blog without paying tribute to the original photorealist artists that help found the movement and some of their contemporaries; so here they are for you with a little bit of art history thrown in. Enjoy. - Tom A Brief History of PHOTOREALISM. A few years after the end of the Second World War, the art movements Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art became all the rage. Artists such as Mark Tobey, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock painted huge canvases of squiggles and marks by flicking, throwing, dribbling and splashing paint onto the surface in what would initially seem random gestures. These works were a visual outward expression of the artist at the time of painting them, rather than an illustration of his feelings or of any subject matter. Pollock sometimes used bicycles to distribute the paint marks but preferred to use sticks! Abstract Expressionist - Jackson Pollock Watch: Jackson Pollock Documentary on youtube Pop Art on the other ...