John C. Kacere (June 23, 1920, Walker, Iowa – August 5, 1999, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) was an American artist. Originally an Abstract-Expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist
style in 1963. Nearly all of his photorealist paintings depict the
midsection of the female body. He is considered one of the original
photorealists, although he rejected the term. [no-sidebar]
Kacere painted his first photorealist painting in 1969 involving the
midsection of a woman dressed in lingerie. It was over three times life
size. Kacere continued this type of painting throughout the rest of his career, making it an icon of the photorealism movement.
In the early 1980s he branched away from this theme and included the
entire body of a woman in lingerie, but returned to his original
midsection of the female body in 1988. Kacere's paintings are figurative but still can be considered still lifes or even landscapes.
