Photorealism is a type of painting style that takes a scene or photo and recreates it on canvas. This collection of three master photorealism painters will blow your mind and make you think you are looking at a picture.

It is surprising that many well-known impressionist painters used still raw photos to create their artworks. They added colors and their vision to the original raw photograph, changed proportions and saved money because they didn’t have to pay art models any more. The results were amazing. For example, Edgar Degas used 3 raw photos to create his famous Ballet Dancers. Other artists followed Degas’ idea and also started to use photographs while painting their masterpieces.