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  2. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    The originator of the term was the French art critic Jules-Antoine Castagnary, who in 1863 announced that: "The naturalist school declares that art is the expression of life under all phases and on all levels, and that its sole aim is to reproduce nature by carrying it to its maximum power and intensity: it is truth balanced with science".

  3. Photo-referencing - Wikipedia

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    In the comic book industry, photo-referencing is criticized by some as a technique used to disguise the weakness of the artist's technical capability. Award-winning comic creator Alison Bechdel [3] also uses extensive photo reference, frequently photographing herself in the poses of the characters she draws in order to convey body language accurately.

  4. Depiction - Wikipedia

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    The art historian Norman Bryson [39] persists with a linguistic model and advances a detail of parsing and tense, 'deixis'. He rejects resemblance and illusion as incompatible with the ambiguities and interpretation available to pictures and is also critical of the inflexible nature of structuralist analysis.

  5. Classical Realism - Wikipedia

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    Classical Realism is characterized by love for the visible world and the great traditions of Western art, including Classicism, Realism and Impressionism.The movement's aesthetic is classical in that it exhibits a preference for order, beauty, harmony and completeness; it is realist because its primary subject matter comes from the representation of nature based on the artist's observation. [5]

  6. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Perspective images are created with reference to a particular center of vision for the picture plane. In order for the resulting image to appear identical to the original scene, a viewer must view the image from the exact vantage point used in the calculations relative to the image.

  7. Ascending and Descending - Wikipedia

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    The lithograph depicts a large building roofed by a never-ending staircase. Two lines of identically dressed men appear on the staircase, one line ascending while the other descends. Two figures sit apart from the people on the endless staircase: one in a secluded courtyard, the other on a lower set of stairs.

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  9. Hyperrealism (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Shapes, forms and areas closest to the forefront of the image visually appear beyond the frontal plane of the canvas; and in the case of sculptures, details have more clarity than in nature. [29] Hyperrealistic images are typically 10 to 20 times the size of the original photographic reference source, yet retain an extremely high resolution in ...