Large Trompe L'oeil Hyperrealism Painting Abstract Surrealist Photo Realist Art

Dimensions: H: 36.0, W: 36.0 IN

Large acrylic painting by Pat Rosenstein,

American Woman Artist, graduate of Pratt Institute whose work has been exhibited extensively. Rosenstein, whose work is sometimes described as Surrealist or "magical realist," combines incredible trompe l'oeil hyperrealist with Abstract Expressionist techniques. Along the lines of Burhan Dogancay and

Yrjo Edelmann. She showed in the mid seventies at the Housatonic Museum along with

Stevan Dohanos, Bernard Riley, Raphael Soyer , Peter Saul, Nicolas Krushenick, Benny Andrews, Lester Johnson, Gabor Peterdi, Robert Natkan etc. Pat Rosenstein was influenced by

the Photo Realist Movement in California. Artists like Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes and Audrey Flack. Vintage childrens toys, fruit, wood, plants, all form part of her eclectic oeuvre. The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists." It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or Hyper-Realism. As a full-fledged art movement, Photorealism evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States.The work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. The exactness was often aided further by the use of an airbrush, which was originally designed to retouch photographs. The movement came about within the same period and context as Conceptual art, Pop art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction. The first Photorealist artists

were Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Audrey Flack, Denis Peterson, Lowell Nesbitt and Malcolm Morley. Each began practicing some form of Photorealism around the same time, often utilizing different modes of application and techniques, and citing different inspirations for their work. However, for the most part they all worked independent from one another. For example, Chuck Close came of age at the height of Pop art and the Andy Warhol Factory, and was based out of SoHo in lower Manhattan. And Audrey Flack, a graduate of Yale, began creating photo-based works in the early 1960s.