PHOTOREALISM - Photorealism is the genre of painting based on using cameras and photographs to gather visual information. It was an American Art movement that began in the late 1960s when artists first attempted to create paintings that resemble photographs. IMPRESSIONISM - Impressionism is a style of painting that originated in Paris in the mid-1800s. The paintings are mostly outdoors and portray natural subjects like trees, fields, and oceans. The style was called impressionism because the artists used many short brush strokes, applying paint thickly, to create the idea, or impression, of a subject.
