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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An artistic style characterized by highly realistic graphic representation.

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  • noun A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
  • noun music A compositional style defined by Noah Creshevsky 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)."

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Examples

  • Rittenmeyer, who calls himself a visual artist working in hyperrealism says, The female body is more beautiful than the male's.

    Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010

  • Rittenmeyer, who calls himself a visual artist working in hyperrealism says, The female body is more beautiful than the male's.

    Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010

  • Rittenmeyer, who calls himself a visual artist working in hyperrealism says, The female body is more beautiful than the male's.

    Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010

  • Gene Siskel concurred, clearly challenged by the "hyperrealism" of its internecine 20-something Hollywood warfare and

    Gawker 2009

  • Gene Siskel concurred, clearly challenged by the "hyperrealism" of its internecine 20-something Hollywood warfare and

    Gawker 2009

  • Through all this Aronofsky employs the kind of hyperrealism that was used so effectively in 'Requiem for a Dream'.

    Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 2008

  • " Runge ' s portraits of children can now look uncannily like the official antimodern style of painting promoted by the Nazis, however, cautions Mr. Howoldt, Runge ' s " hyperrealism, " which gives his portraits their characteristic power, were also admired by socially critical left-wing artist Otto Dix.

    In Hamburg, a Romanticism alert J. S. Marcus in Hamburg 2010

  • At first, the camera follows Randy “The Ram” (Mickey Rourke) around on his errands — shooting up juice, bleaching his hair, the tanning salon — in a sort of behind-the-scenes hyperrealism that bordered on the dull.

    WATCHING: The Wrestler darkerblogistan 2009

  • Fantasy fans often note that the divide between popular and literary fiction was established relatively recently by the modernists, who favored hyperrealism over plot and narrative.

    The Season of the Supernatural Alexandra Alter 2011

  • "I try to unite these two subjects to create that world, which is part reality/history/mysticism and part fantasy/hyperrealism," the artist notes.

    Evoking The Ancient Maya: Murals Of Otoniel Baruck Sala 2007

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