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Realism vs Hyperrealism - What's the difference?

realism | hyperrealism |

As nouns the difference between realism and hyperrealism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while hyperrealism is a style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations.

realism

English

(wikipedia realism)

Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

    • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism ----

    hyperrealism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
  • (music) A compositional style defined by as "an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment (realism''), handled in ways that are somehow exaggerated or excessive (''hyper )."

    • See also

    * photo-realism * superrealism