The above painting by Samantha French depicts the sensation of being underwater with an eerie clarity. There's a temptation to call it photorealistic, even. I'm not sure it is, though. That is, I don't know that this is what a camera would pick up, as opposed to a hyperreal feeling of what this pool would be like. Interestingly, French's portrayal's of people outside the pool and thus on dry land are openly stylized, Matissean, faces obscured. The water portraits give more an impression of physical accuracy, but I'm not sure it's the point.
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You're right that her paintings really are amazingly realistic, or perhaps the word is hyperrealistic. It's also true that the images make you remember moments of the total experience of being one with the water. Very nice find.
Thank you. "Hyperrealistic" is a good word for the case. She seems to have found something no one else was doing, or at least no one else was specializing in.
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