photorealism

thumb|upright=1.3|''John's Diner with John's Chevelle'', 2007. John Baeder, oil on canvas, 30×48 inches

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be used broadly to describe artworks in many different media, it is also used to refer to a specific art movement of American painters that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.