As a movement, photorealism, sometimes also referred to as Superrealism or Hyperrealism, came to prominence in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely as a result of paintings by Chuck Close (b.1940) and Richard Estes (b.1936), and the extraordinarily life-like sculpture of John De Andrea (b.1941), Duane Hanson (1925-96) and Carole Feuerman (b.1945). Being wholly representational, photorealist art is a natural counter to contemporary abstraction.