Photorealism is a style of painting that looks as exact as a photograph. It was popular in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the United States. Artists usually painted very ordinary things from everyday life — a street, a shop window, a car, a face — with every small detail in place, often working from a real photo. The picture is not meant to look dreamy or loosely painted; it is meant to look like the camera saw it, including sharp edges and reflections. Though actually, Photorealism is not just “drawing carefully.” The idea was to take the camera’s way of seeing and put it onto canvas. People sometimes mix the name with hyperrealism, a later style that can look even more intense, almost more-than-real. Photorealism is the name for that earlier, photo-based style.

照相寫實主義。台灣有時也會把後來的 hyperrealism 混叫成「超寫實」，那是另一路、更晚的畫風。