: the quality in art (such as animation or painting) of depicting or seeming to depict real people, objects, etc. with the exactness of a photograph
Luca is largely a departure from the sort of animation style we're used to seeing in Pixar movies, swapping photorealism for something more stylised … Patrick Cremona
Photorealism in gaming means the characters and scenery are supposed to mirror real life in visuals as closely as possible. Elizabeth Gipe
[Robyn] Penn works from found images … and in the process of painting brings a ghostly, ephemeral quality to the photorealism of the documented ice-scapes. Alexandra Dodd
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: a movement in painting characterized by photographic exactness of detail
A couple of years later his friend and fellow tennis pro Vitas Gerulaitis introduced him to photorealism. Now that's really art, McEnroe thought. It looks just like photographs. Franz Lidz
A natural offshoot of Pop Art and heir to one-man movements like Edward Hopper, photorealist paintings depicted the postwar American landscape, highlighting Vietnam War pessimism and the plight of working-class people in the recession-era '70s. Martha Schwendener
photorealistnoun
or less commonly photo-realist
plural photorealists also photo-realists
[Don] Coen's goal, like that of the early photorealists, is to paint the images just as they would appear as projected slides. Carol Dickinson