On the extraordinary of the ordinary. Robert Bechtle and Photorealism

Abstract

Robert Bechtle is an American painter from the Bay Area of San Francisco and one of the most prominent photorealist who has shown the extraordinary of his ordinary life. He uses photographs of familiar subjects and places to create their paintings of everyday scenes. That is, working in a photorealist style, Bechtle focuses our attention on the marvellous aspects of his life. The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between art and life in Bechtle’s works from the everyday aesthetics.