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Excerpt from "A Brush Stroke for Every Human Suffering" - Ari Siletz, Media Watch

"This instance of hyperrealism is a performance art. Viewers are deliberately made to notice the amazing amount of time and painstaking effort that went into portraying this Darfur refugee. Peterson isn't showing off; he is a radical painter, compelling us with his dedication.

The astonishing realism is the result of every wrinkle and twist of hair being colored and shadowed in the context of reflected light from every other object in the scene. Whereas the camera does this mindlessly as a matter of optics, this artist has endured whatever it took to make sure human eyes do not respond as mindlessly. We can flip the page on a Newsweek photo, worth a click of the camera, but we can’t as easily turn away from such an extraordinary labor of compassion."

Darfur Refugee by Denis Peterson
Don't Shed No Tears Acrylics on canvas 24"x36" ................................. Courtesy of Art Info


DENIS PETERSON and HYPERREALISM: "Following POP Art in the late 1960's, photorealism became the mainstream genre and has continued to produce iconic photo-like paintings depicting banal realities of daily life. In the recent splinter movement of hyperrealism, Peterson's semiotic paintings are more deliberate polymorphic illusions of reality and considerably less monolithic than those found in traditional photorealism.

As a counter culture school of art, hyperrealism seems to incorporate POP culture within an existential frame of reference. At times phantasmagorical, these optically convincing images are often their own simulacra - altered realities challenging verisimilitude, perception and illusion." L'Aperitivo Illustrato Magazine

Photorealism painting, photorealist painter photorealist Photorealism not same as Hyperreal or Hyperrealist work Hyper-realism subset Photorealism. Wikipedia lists Denis Peterson founder of hyperrealism (Hyperrealism) see: hyperrealist painters, Hyperrealism,hyperrealist and photorealist. Also see: hyper-realism,hyper-real,hyperrealism,photorealism,photorealist painters,photorealists "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."
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