Realism

So realism is pretty straight forwards. It is exactly what it says. Its a close resemblement to what is real. Phoography was the first medium or form of realism in a form of art, rather than paintings which can be very decieving. A man called "andre bazin" said humanity has a "mummy complex" meaning a urge to freeze time and to capture and store reality. This is because photgraphy is proof, its scientific and copies reality.


However with realism comes non-realism where 3d is used and is becoming more and more realistic with character features using probably a photographas a base to edit and transform into creatures.

There are 2 viewson realism, art reflects and art tranforms. There are 2 types of media that relate to realism. The first is immediacy, where it makes you forget about the media you are using, wether its film, photography etc. To want immediacy is to want to be away from realism and forgetting what your looking at isnt really there.

The other type is hypermedicy is the in a way the opposite to immediacy where it uses technology to make you beleive what you are looking at is real. To disguise an object in a way. I found this slightly hard to understand and find it hard to write about.