Hyperreal Paintings (55 pics)

some of them are so perfect you can tell they're not real...

dang she's better then leonardo da vinci and michaelangelo combined

wooah

i cant believe yet

@ hijm......she?? These are paintings by a number of different artists including Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, and Richard Estes just to name a couple off the top of my head that I recognized right away.

nice

Who says those r paintings!!

Nice work.

wow. Such skill.

Amazing

Wow...amazing!

these are not real paintings. there photos that some one painted over.

amazing..these are paintings ???

The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1968 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists."[17] It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or Hyper-Realism.[18]

Louis K. Meisel, two years later, developed a five-point definition at the request of Stuart M. Speiser, who had commissioned a large collection of works by the Photorealists, which later developed into a traveling show known as "Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection," which was donated to the Smithsonian in 1978 and is shown in several of its museums as well as traveling under the auspices of SITE.[17] The definition was as follows:

1. The Photo-Realist uses the camera and photograph to gather information.
2. The Photo-Realist uses a mechanical or semimechanical means to transfer the information to the canvas.
3. The Photo-Realist must have the technical ability to make the finished work appear photographic.
4. The artist must have exhibited work as a Photo-Realist by 1972 to be considered one of the central Photo-Realists.
5. The artist must have devoted at least five years to the development and exhibition of Photo-Realist work

who are the artists?

oh, i thought they were all by one person. thanks for the heads up