Definitions for "Hyperreality"
As a relatively new school of painting, hyperrealism is a recognized outgrowth of the school of photorealism. Through convincing photographic imagery, hyperrealist painters routinely create a two-dimensional simulation of a three-dimensional reality. Hyperreal paintings are convincing illusions of reality based upon photographic images which attempt to represent reality.
Keywords:  encompassing, lost, sign, referent
a sign which has lost its referent, as the sign has become all-encompassing