Mcdonald's Pickup

One of the artwork styles is Photorealism which is “create representational images, including pen and ink, pastels, and prints, in the 1980s and beyond” according to Arthistory.net website. The style started in the 1960s with Minimalism and Pop Art and put it together. First of all, the artists began with a camera to take a picture then create their art with pen, ink, and other media to create their own art. One artist, Ralph Goings who painted McDonalds Pickup in 1970 which has an old-fashioned car with bright sky, however, there is no one in the image. This image looks like a real photograph, but it was painted to look like a photograph. According to Goings, the location of the Mcdonalds “A McDonald's branch on a highway somewhere in the American South; in a parking lot out front, a white pickup truck in the merciless noon …show more content…
Also, this artwork looks like a middle of the afternoon. However, there is no people in the image, which mentions “his hyperrealist work seems strangely ambiguous: not a single person can be seen, either in the parking lot or in the fast-food restaurant” (Goings). The another artwork which is photo realism, John Baeder’s John’s Diner with John’s Chevelle, oil on canvas, 2007 and this painting has a car front of “John’s Diner, ” and this painting has realistic of the photograph than a painting. Steven Heller explains this artwork in his article Why Does John Beader Paint Diners, which he paints many diners in Photorealism style. He said, “He is a master of photorealism, but his work is more than mere technique and process” (Heller). This style takes a long time because each artwork must look like a photograph. According to the-artists.org, “The challenge for photorealist artists has always been to replicate a scene with the bold details that they’ve seen, while vividly representing the changes and motions in the photo the way it was frozen in time” and each picture must look real just like a viewer is over the place in