Hyperrealism:

Hyperrealism is a fairly modern and independent genre of art which developed in the United States and Europe in the early 2000s. It is an art-form in which artists paint, draw or sculpt art similar to that of high-resolution photographs, and can be considered an advancement from photorealism. The artwork itself is commonly drawn from photos, and some artists even use projections of the photos to sketch the image before painting. Although the artwork is drawn/sculptured from photos, it is not a complete mimic of them. The photos are used to paint things that may not be seen from the human eye (e.g. circles of confusion created by cameras, textures, tones and expressions).

Alyssa Monks

Alyssa monks is a young artist (born 1977) from New Jersey. She uses oil paints and has done sincce a young age. Her paintings are a mixture of abstraction and realism, using a camera to capture her subject (realism) but shooting through filters such as water and steam (abstraction). “Realism and Abstraction are in a symbiotic relationship – they need each other to exist and eventually become the same.”