still-life and genre painting. Exemplary artists. Chuck Close (late-C20). He did enlargements of snapshot photographs, often painted painstakingly with acrylic. He deliberately reproduces the distortions of a photograph (blurriness and focus). He reduces his humongous images to visual information about surface, depth of field, focus and scale, sans psychological factors. Richard Estes (late-C20). He produced flawlessly elegant townscapes of New York. He painted storefronts and urban panoramas. Glass in its reflections and transparency plays an important role in his works. He used photographs as the basis for his paintings but modified them. He also painted views of Paris, Florence and Venice (comparable to Canaletto). Subsidiary artists: Philip Pearlstein, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle. Post-Painterly Abstraction. Post-Painterly Abstraction was another reaction to Abstract Expressionism. It was to
still-life and genre painting. Exemplary artists. Chuck Close (late-C20). He did enlargements of snapshot photographs, often painted painstakingly with acrylic. He deliberately reproduces the distortions of a photograph (blurriness and focus). He reduces his humongous images to visual information about surface, depth of field, focus and scale, sans psychological factors. Richard Estes (late-C20). He produced flawlessly elegant townscapes of New York. He painted storefronts and urban panoramas. Glass in its reflections and transparency plays an important role in his works. He used photographs as the basis for his paintings but modified them. He also painted views of Paris, Florence and Venice (comparable to Canaletto). Subsidiary artists: Philip Pearlstein, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle. Post-Painterly Abstraction. Post-Painterly Abstraction was another reaction to Abstract Expressionism. It was to
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