Richard Estes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Estes

American painter, 1932

Date of Birth: 14-May-1932

Place of Birth: Kewanee, Illinois, United States

Profession: photographer, artist, painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

For the wildebeest expert, see Richard Despard Estes.Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings.
The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes.
He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, 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 1960s and early 1970s.
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."