Realism. See it to believe it?

There was always something about making things seem real, even when they're not.

"oh, i bet they'd believe this"  is what people often think when they try to create something.

& what does that have to do with anything?

Illusionism or Mimesis describes the attempts to recreate reality through art. & so is reflectionism and perspectivism. All these, commonly known as, realism

Then reality kicks in and...

now you'd disturbingly be able to relate his face to reality. & somehow wonder if its possible.

Illusion – origins in Latin illusio, ‘to make fun of’ – so ‘playing’ with an original

Mimesis – Greek, ‘imitation’ or ‘copy’ - related to modern English mimicry, imitate, etc.

Reflectionism – the idea that artworks reflect a pre-existing reality: art as mirror

Perspectivism – perspective: ‘the art of representing objects in drawing on a plane surface so as to produce a realistic effect of relative position, distance, size, etc.’ (Odham’s Dictionary, 1957): literally ‘to see through’: art as window

So the Homer Simpson was an example of Illusion.

Lets take a look at Mimesis?

The real thing

The painting.

Reflectionism is, probably found in the simplest photographs, well in today's world of course.

it acts as a mirror that reflects the exact moment of reality in another form of media.

allowing us to see it in a somewhat different way. 

& so all these methods creates the urge to to represent. It can manifest itself in attempts to represent

the world as it is (the documentary urge)

the world as I experience it (the confessional urge)

the world as it can be imagined to be (the imaginative urge)

but yet, these urges are often overlapping one another? 

Like how the picture may represent the world as it is & at the same time of how the photographer is experiencing it.