Hyperrealist art is highly detailed, often photographically so. Some hyperrealist painters do indeed work from photographs. The subjects of hyperrealistic artworks tend to be impersonal ones, which the artist often chooses because they are technically challenging. The paradox of hyperrealist art is that the exaggerated attention to detail results in a strong feeling of unreality. Impressionism is based on the Impressionist movement, which began in France in the 1860s.
Impressionist art is often a deep contemplation of the relation between natural light and colour.
Typically an impressionist painter uses pure colours and free brushstrokes. The first impressionists avoided traditional themes and compositions. Beauty is appreciated as much in a snap-shot glimpse of an everyday scene as it is in a well posed model or carefully arranged still life. Informalism Back to top Informalism was an artistic movement that attempted to abandon all the geometric and figutative forms in favour of a new artistic language, basing itself in methods and forms that arose out of improvisation. This term describes art that, although from developed Western or Westernised societies, shows no attempt at traditional attention to representation.