Not exact matches
But
in 2003 he returned to his most loved medium — oil on linen — and has been exhibiting his
photorealistic oil
paintings in the UK and Internationally ever since.
Very often, the
photorealistic artist gets too stuck
in the details, (so) that the
painting looks too clean, too perfect.
There's so much to be knocked out by: Joan Semmel's
photorealistic paintings of herself having sex seen from her point of view, Shigeko Kubota
painting with a brush stuck to her crotch, Cosey Fanni Tutti posing
in porn magazines, Eleanor Antin documenting herself on a diet, and Carolee Schneemann pulling a scroll from her vagina and reading it.
Included
in the exhibition are
paintings and works on paper from 1976 through 2013, including works on found objects and vintage book pages as well as the explicit
photorealistic paintings that have recently attracted much international attention.
Marilyn Minter's work examines glamour and its seedy underbelly through a juxtaposition of
photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs which hone
in on the moment where «clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque.»
«WOMEN Words» is a clarion call, far more radical and revealing than Tompkins» better known earlier works also on display: her Cunt
paintings and Fuck series, enlarged
photorealistic depictions of sex
in acrylic.
Ken Johnson reports: Richard Phillips is known for large - scale
paintings based on pornographic photographs of women, which he copies
in a flatfooted,
photorealistic style.
«It was not
photorealistic, but hyper - real,» he says, «
in the sense that I actually felt cold standing
in front of a
painting of an iceberg.
The large - scale
photorealistic paintings of faces by Chuck Close carry a sense of intimacy even
in their grandeur.
Renowned for his
photorealistic renditions of water, Joe specialises
in painting landscapes and seascapes
in watercolour.
Opening this coming Friday at Mike Weiss Gallery
in NYC is Garden of the Gods, a solo exhibition featuring the
photorealistic paintings of Yigal Ozeri
in an all new exploration of nature, femininity and timelessness.
Often beginning with a charcoal drawing, and gradually building up layers
in oil or tempera, Reyes
paints blocks of color that appear
photorealistic when seen from a distance, but become more abstract and gestural upon closer inspection.
There are also his more traditional - seeming, good old oil - on - canvas compositions, that range from
photorealistic to blurred, positioning his
paintings as a repository of memory, unreliable
in its nature, and indubitably mediated by the artist's subjectivity.
During the late 1960s through the 1970s, Celmins completely abandoned traditional
painting in order to dedicate herself to graphite pencil, creating highly detailed
photorealistic drawings based on photographs of natural elements.
In the course of his career he has adopted many styles: he has produced abstract as well as
photorealistic paintings, photographs, mirrors and glass pieces.
Voligamsi's
photorealistic paintings are brought together into a chronicle of daily life
in a fictitious town called Dvoegorsk the likes of which were ubiquitous
in the USSR and still can be found
in contemporary Russia.
In 1969 Betty Tompkins started
painting her first group of monumental,
photorealistic and detailed images of sexual intercourse.
During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil
paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding more
photorealistic details, allowing the work to dictate its own construction.
Shirana Shahbazi makes photographs
in classical art - historical genres, including portraiture, still life, and landscape, often translating and repeating her images
in different mediums: hand - knotted carpets, for instance, and
photorealistic billboards
painted by artisans hired
in her native Iran.
Chason Matthams presents a group of tiny
paintings —
photorealistic, surreal and abstracted —
in his solo exhibition at Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco.
In some ways his
paintings appear
photorealistic, but his palette is restricted by the Humbrol enamel
paints he uses — materials usually more associated with hobbyist model - makers than with the Turner prize shortlist.
Produced
in conjunction with the first major museum retrospective on her work, Pretty / Dirty examines every period of the artist's 40 - year career, from her beginnings with the controversial porn
paintings, initially rejected by the critical establishment, to her later large - scale
photorealistic works.
Marilyn Minter is an artist who juxtaposes
photorealistic paintings with painterly photographs and videos, honing
in on the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty meets the grotesque.
For the first time
in the artist's career, the gallery will debut four stop - motion video works
in addition to five studio - fresh oil
paintings rendered
in his signature
photorealistic technique.
Here, Backman archly plays with a few
painting - theory chestnuts from the 20th century, from foregrounding the material reality of the
paint itself
in contradiction of its illusionistic properties to the notion of «breaking the picture plane,» done bluntly with a
paint can protruding from the middle of his nice
photorealistic oceanscape.
For his two - gallery exhibition at PaceWildenstein just last year, he presented a monumental sculpture of a pregnant girl covered
in real cowhides; antique wooden doors carved into intricate reliefs; and a
photorealistic, tennis - court - size
painting made from ash.
In an impressive twenty - four new paintings, the artist pulls inspiration and imagery from fashion magazines, advertisements and Saturday morning cartoons, and joins them together in gauzy layers that are each painted with photorealistic perfectio
In an impressive twenty - four new
paintings, the artist pulls inspiration and imagery from fashion magazines, advertisements and Saturday morning cartoons, and joins them together
in gauzy layers that are each painted with photorealistic perfectio
in gauzy layers that are each
painted with
photorealistic perfection.
Evan is a New York - based artist, who makes
photorealistic ink
paintings and awesome sculptures and has had solo exhibitions at SAKS
in Geneva and The Hole
in New York, among other galleries.