This is a course on Photo or Hyper Realistic Art. In this course we look at the art of the Photo Realistic Artists from the past and then study and enjoy the work of the pioneers of Contemporary Photo/Hyper Realistic Art. The purpose of this course is to have these masters of Photo/Hyper Realistic Art guide us in the opening of our concepts of art and to help us see more of the beauty that surrounds us. Photo/Hyper realistic art has deep historical roots. The Dutch Masters of the Baroque extensively used the aid of image projecting devices to help them in their renderings. Even further back in history Pliny the Elder tells us that the origins of Roman Art was in shadow paintings, a devise use for accomplishing the realistic representation of subjects.

Contents: Introduction, Hyper Realistic Masters from the Past, Photo Realism, Vermeer and the Camera Obscura, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Cottingham, Duane Hanson. Welcome to this course that studies the naturalistic or realistic depiction of objects and subjects at their maximum expression.

Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 1970s. Carole Feuerman is the forerunner in the hyperrealism movement along with Duane Hanson and John De Andrea.

Advice to young Poets Ask yourselves with every poem if it contains something you have experienced and if that experience has made you grow. Let us take the flow of life as a guide and on occasion examine ourselves. Then we can see instantly if we are truly alive and reflecting later in life, whether we have been truly alive. Goethe.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.