British artist Paul Winstanley (born 1954) has established an international reputation for his atmospheric
photorealistic paintings of nondescript places and anonymous figures.
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.
He first gained fame over four decades ago for
his photorealistic paintings of fellow artists, family members, and friends.
The large - scale
photorealistic paintings of faces by Chuck Close carry a sense of intimacy even in their grandeur.
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.
A visit to the gargantuan space alone is gratifying enough, though so are Andrew Sendor's impossibly
photorealistic paintings of an imaginary esoteric shop.
Throughout, the lively text is illuminated by photos, drawings, maps, and the beautiful
photorealistic paintings of Ken Marschall, who has emerged as the disaster's visual historian.
Another Close piece, a haunting,
photorealistic painting of composer Philip Glass, hangs at the top of the spindled stairs.
Not exact matches
Featuring breathtaking
photorealistic graphics and persistent gore that allows you to
paint levels red with the excessive entrails
of your enemies.
On Saturday 25 February, the Kunsthal Rotterdam is opening the exhibition «Hyperrealism - 50 Years
of Painting», a unique overview of photorealistic p
Painting», a unique overview
of photorealistic paintingpainting.
With deadpan drollery, LaDuke raced through a gamut
of concerns, from abject life to brutish death, presenting images
of paintings that veered from the
photorealistic to the abstract and
of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.
Although sometimes considered as
photorealistic and associated with the New realism, her work is only a reproduction
of the world she sees through the elements
of painting, not photography.
Auckland - based gallery Starkwhite also proudly crowed about a sale to an undisclosed institution
of a pair
of photorealistic paintings from their solo booth
of works by Australian artist Michael Zavros.
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.
These
paintings capture the softness
of fabric that adorn a woman's body, presenting them as
photorealistic fragments.
Tom McKinley: With
photorealistic precision, Tom McKinley
paints mid-century and contemporary architecture void
of inhabitants and lit by twilight or incandescent, man - made light — recalling the pages
of luxury real estate listings.
What once began as a career full
of surrealistic and
photorealistic paintings evolved through time into the art that he creates today, which is abstract.
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.
Renowned for his
photorealistic renditions
of water, Joe specialises in
painting landscapes and seascapes in watercolour.
For his first LA solo exhibition, Yigal Ozeri furnished us with over a dozen
photorealistic oil
paintings and one exquisite video — works that captured the eye
of Beautiful / Decay Associate Editor Sasha Lee, who interviewed the artist for the publication's preview feature article.
Sometimes we wonder when we see work like Houston - based Kevin Peterson, with his ability to recreate
photorealistic quality
paintings with graffiti included, what sort
of graff artist he would be?
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.
The Aged
Paintings are
painted with acrylic and oil on burlap with almost
photorealistic precision, and then aged and patinated, appearing almost as artefacts
of our times to a future civilisation.
For this album they have employed a
photorealistic painting by Gerhard Richter
of a candle, fittingly reflecting the cool, mature and universal mood
of the songs.
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.
Forgotten Promises includes some favorites and some newer works from Damien Hirst such as stunning
photorealistic oil
paintings of butterflies, diamond cabinets, the much talked about diamond encrusted baby skull, and much more.
Jasmin uses her drawing skills on finding the form and proportion
of their characters, while Falk specializes on
painting the
photorealistic elements.
Chason Matthams presents a group
of tiny
paintings —
photorealistic, surreal and abstracted — in his solo exhibition at Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco.
Reproductions
of these works are more
photorealistic than the
paintings themselves.
The resultant
paintings are both
photorealistic and abstract — exact painterly depictions
of utterly ambiguous subjects.
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.
Previous exhibitions by Spence, an LA based artist who has shown with Shoshana Wayne since 2000, have been hazily
photorealistic images
of landscapes, an empty room, a picture
of a group seated on folding chairs (the scene
painted and based on an iPhone photo).
Helnwein's work, can be described as a
photorealistic hybrid between
painting and drawing, with its blend
of the figurative and ambivalent, radiating a sacrosanct beauty that is magnetic.
Though it has come to refer generally to
painting that emulates the look
of photographs, typically with hyperrealistic clarity, the term «
photorealistic» traces its roots to Photorealism, the American art movement
of the 1960s and»70s.
Mike Dargas» new series
of portraits is a challenge to oil
painting as we know it and a confirmation
of his mastery
of the
photorealistic techniques.
Green Pink Caviar is a collection
of photorealistic paintings and graphic photographs.
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.
A full spectrum
of styles is represented, from exquisite
photorealistic paintings to expressive and abstracted representational works.
Of course, art is subjective, and a field of static (like a Jackson Pollock painting) can be interpreted as a pornographic image if one is so inclined, but a photorealistic depiction will not arise by chanc
Of course, art is subjective, and a field
of static (like a Jackson Pollock painting) can be interpreted as a pornographic image if one is so inclined, but a photorealistic depiction will not arise by chanc
of static (like a Jackson Pollock
painting) can be interpreted as a pornographic image if one is so inclined, but a
photorealistic depiction will not arise by chance.