Pho ‧ to ‧ rea ‧ lis ‧ m /ˌfəʊtəʊˈrɪəlɪz ə m/ BrE AmE
a style of painting that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the US, in which the paintings were very like photographs, usually showing very ordinary objects from everyday life with very exact details