ABSTRACT
Tommaso Trini was a major Italian art critic with a strong interest in international art. While tracing features of Hyperrealism to its historical, cultural, social and technological background in the USA—as well as Pop art—Trini argues that it aimed to be a surrogate of reality; more realistic than reality. Hyperrealist perfectionism aims to create a surrogate of reality, while Pop art, which gave birth to it, adored everything that was artificial about humanity. The extent to which art today is seen through the mass media is well known. Amazing that people can talk about it as an advanced art, which it is not, or as anything new. Art is not technical virtuosity, nor are Hyperrealist painters part of Sciltian’s school, but some brushstrokes are blurred and imprecise when seen at close quarters. By combining sculpture and painting, the Hyperrealists deceive time more than the eye: there is poetry.
