Mathew Zurita
ART-398-2381
Professor. Cacoilo
New Jersey City University
April 04, 2025
Historical Context, exploring art history
A movement that I picked and that I was akin to is the Photorealism period. Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was developed by a loosely affiliated group of American painters and sculptors reacting to post-war art, pop culture, and photography. Disillusioned by concurrent trends in nonrepresentational art, artists such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, and Ralph Goings sought to portray objects with greater visual accuracy, relying largely on photographs in their practice and often depicting American motifs in their work. More broadly, the movement complicated notions of reality by interjecting fantastical or abstracted elements into their otherwise optically precise works. Building upon the idea of Pop Art, the movement reintroduced process and planning over automatism, and craftsmanship over unconscious improvisation. To a degree not previously accomplished, Photorealism complicates the notion of realism by successfully mixing together that which is real with that which is unreal. While the image on the canvas is recognizable and carefully delineated to suggest that it is accurate, the artist often based their work upon photographs rather than direct observation. Therefore, their canvases remain distanced from reality factually and metaphorically.
While sneaker photography and photorealism share a focus on capturing details and creating highly realistic images, they differ in their primary goals and artistic context. Sneaker photography aims for clean, product-focused shots, while photorealism is a broader art movement that strives for photographic accuracy in painting. Each have different goals between the two. Sneaker photography goal is to present a sneaker in the most appealing and accurate way, often for commercial purposes. The goal for photorealism is to create paintings that are so realistic they appear to be photographs. However, I could see some similarities between the two. For example, an artist name Charles Bell, use two objects as a playful circus act. Bell depicts two colorful and simple metal toys. He positions the toys as if mid-motion, like a circus procession, expressing wonderment- a quality that is prevalent throughout Bell's work. The painter focuses on small and insignificant objects, making them the subjects of his work, in order to question our culture values, as well as to play with the interplay of high and low culture. With his interest in mass produced, often inexpensively made objects, Bells makes high art of low culture, or here, out of child's play. Remarkably, the artist did not receive any formal artistic training. He is praised for his technical abilities, most notably his ability to create high-glossy surfaces and shiny objects. As for my work, I've placed my sneakers into various locations and onto a different placing of the shoe. Each shoe is colorful with it's different color material and background. My work, along with Charles Bell work, show some similarities.
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| "Circus Act" Charles Bell |
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| Union Storm Blue Jordan 1 |
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