The next timeline to look at was the 1970s and the artist and movements which influenced that era the most. The first movement that I looked at was graffiti art. This spread in the 1970s due to the cultural influences of hip-hop, causing a large amount of urban youths to want to take their frustrations at society out in a different way, causing them to be creative and make art, but not necessarily art that would please the public as a form of rebellion and protest.

In the end, I decided to look at photorealism as a movement instead. This started in the late 1960s but developed primarily throughout the 1970s. This style entails creating your art to be highly detailed, resembling photographs either by working directly from them or taking direct inspiration from them in terms of lighting and detailing as to make it resembles a real picture, often creating an “uncanny valley” effect, making something look too realistic to the point of being able to not look real because of it.

The artist I decided to look at was Audrey Flack. She was the first photorealistic painter to have their work to be accepted by the Museum of Modern Art. This piece was included in its permanent collection and is still there to this day. She is an extremely influential pioneer of the art form as she used painting, sculpture and photography altogether, and they blended perfectly to make the photorealistic effect come through in her work.