Photorealism

Also known as hyper-realism, super-realism, Photorealism is a style that serves as a link between representational systems of painting and photography. Photorealism developed in hte 1960's and 70's as a reaction to the detachment of Minimalism and Conceptual art, which did not depict representational images. Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to enlarge a photographic reference to scale.  Many of the Photorealists used an airbrush to create their paintings.

Robert Bechtle

Gran Torino, 1974

Paul Staiger

PSA, (There She Is), 1969

Chuck Close