2. Meet Jason de Graaf
● Born in Montreal, CA in 1971
● 1996 Dawson College, Montreal QC, Illustration &
Design
● Worked as an illustrator
● Part of the independent art movement hyperrealism that
started in the early 2000s
● Mostly paints transparent things e.g. glass, water, marbles
● Genre: "Still" Lives
● Reflections!!!!
3. Hyperrealism
● Idea of verisimilitude true to life physical representation of
objects
● Function of Photorealism?
● Advancement or extension of photorealism
● “the simulation of something which never really
existed."