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Art that is extremely similar in visual appearance to the subject. Superrealism was very popular in the USA during the 1970s with artists such as Duane Hanson. In painting, images are often direct, detailed copies of photographs, while in sculpture, techniques such as casts made directly from the human figure are used.

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