Shade

What to do on the hottest day of the year? Some writing, taking part in a football knowledge quiz via Zoom (in which I finished 3rd. Out of three.) And then a six mile walk, enjoying the shady bits beneath canal bridges and trees.

Superrealism is an art movement, started in the 1960s, in which painters based their work on photographs and sought to make the results look as much like the photographs (and "reality") as possible. 

English artist Malcolm Morley produced work in many different genres but his photorealism was especially successful, in works such as Wall Jumpers (2002). Based on a photograph taken with a telephoto lens this shows Palestinians leaping over a wall into Israel. The crowd beyond the wall has been made less focussed, to mimic the shallow depth of field in the photograph.

American painter Richard Estes started producing superrealist works in the 1960s.  He tends to adapt what he sees, bending his paintings to draw on two or more photographs to produce a distorted but pleasing view.  A good example of this is Williamsburg Bridge (1995).