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Deutsche Guggenheim museum
Installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim mueum
Audrey Flack - Strawberry Tart
Ron Kleemann - Big Foot Cross
Past Exhibition — 2009

Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s

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7 March — 10 May, 2009

Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s

At the end of the 1960s, a number of young artists working in the United States began making realist paintings based directly on photographs. With often-meticulous detail, they portrayed the objects, people, and places that defined both urban and suburban American life. Variously presented under the labels Hyperrealism, Radical Realism, New Realism, and Photorealism, their work quickly became one of the most discussed topics in contemporary art. Unlike the Pop artists, the Photorealists did not present their ubiquitous, and in many cases mundane, subject matter—for example, reflective shop windows, shiny cars, and sugary foodstuffs—in an ironic manner. Rather, they stayed more or less faithful to the mechanical reproductions that served as their point of departure, using a variety of methods to translate photographic information onto canvas and paper.

Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s

At the end of the 1960s, a number of young artists working in the United States began making realist paintings based directly on photographs. With often-meticulous detail, they portrayed the objects, people, and places that defined both urban and suburban American life. Variously presented under the labels Hyperrealism, Radical Realism, New Realism, and Photorealism, their work quickly became one of the most discussed topics in contemporary art. Unlike the Pop artists, the Photorealists did not present their ubiquitous, and in many cases mundane, subject matter—for example, reflective shop windows, shiny cars, and sugary foodstuffs—in an ironic manner. Rather, they stayed more or less faithful to the mechanical reproductions that served as their point of departure, using a variety of methods to translate photographic information onto canvas and paper.

Photorealism at Deutsche Guggenheim

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Location

Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim
7 March, 2009 — 10 May, 2009

Unter den Linden 13-15, 10117 Berlin, Germany

The Deutsche Guggenheim was an art museum in Berlin, Germany, open from 1997 to 2013.[1][2] It was located in the ground floor of the Deutsche Bank building on the Unter den Linden boulevard.[3]

For more information about this location please visit their website:
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/picturing-america-photorealism-in-the-1970s