John Salt obituary

British pioneer of photorealist painting in the US in the 1960s and 70sJohn Salt, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of photorealist painting, a genre that emerged in late 1960s America, in part, like its predecessor pop art, as a response to abstract expressionism. The paintings were of photographs of random subjects, enlarged and rendered in such detail that they themselves could be mistaken for photographs.John was British but, while living in the US, and painting photographs of cars and tra