"The Spiritual Landscapes of David Andrew" by Frederick Turner from the website of the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center

I have sometimes used the term “visionary realism” to describe in these pages an aspect of the new representational or figurative movement in the serious visual arts. Unlike Photorealism or hyper-realism, visionary realism has no tedious neo-Marxist axe to grind about simulacra, consumerism, authenticity or reproduction. (Isn’t it strange how reproduction, the way loving fathers and mothers generate babies, has become a bad word in our deathly and elitist contemporary artspeak? And the term representation, which literally means “making present again,” and in other senses denotes the process of meaning and t...