Artist richard estes biography template

American artist (born )

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Richard Estes (born May 14, , in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealistpaintings.

The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometriclandscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late s, with such painters as John Baeder, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, and Duane Hanson.

Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late s and early s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."^[1]

Early life

At an early age, Estes moved to Chicago with his