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Edwin on May 8th, 2012

The controversial French painter, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
The Burial At Ornans, one of Courbet’s most important works, records the funeral of his grand uncle which he attended in September 1848.
People who attended the funeral were the models for the painting. Courbet painted “the very people who had been [...]

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I have been learning to blog about basic photography since last year. As an amateur photographer, sharing my past experience has been my genuine purpose.
Helping those beginners to have a good grasp of how-to on basic photography and using the dSLR. Albeit, photo portrait painting is also my primary topics in this blog.
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Edwin on April 5th, 2010

Photorealism in the context of describing an art movement, has nothing related to computer graphic rendering.
It is a class of art having the characteristic of making a painting from the use of a photograph. The term, ‘Photorealism’, is primarily applied to paintings from United States art movement that began in the late 1960s and early [...]

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