Category: Painting
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Sublime Splattered Ink Animal Portraits by Hua Tunan
Chinese artist Hua Tunan is back with more incredible splattered ink portraits. Born in 1991 in Foshan, Guangdong, China, Tunan blends traditional Chinese art and Western graffiti into his own unique style. The painter and graffiti artist has done both commercial work for global brands as well as ‘noncommissioned’ street artworks that can be seen around China.…
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Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings of Feminine Beauty by Anna Halldin Maule
Initially, these images appear to be crisp, elegant photographs. However, in reality, each hyperrealistic image is an oil painting created by artist Anna Halldin Maule. With unbelievable attention to detail, the Hawaii-based artist produces amazingly detailed, beautifully feminine portraits. The artist’s process is a collaboration with photographer husband Tom Maule. The couple develops a photo…
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Mesmerizing Surreal paintings by Vladimir Kush Will Have You Thinking
Vladimir Kush is a Russian born surrealist painter and sculptor. After several years working as an artist in Moscow, he moved to the United States where his surrealistic style really took off. He now has galleries in Hawaii, California and Nevada, and his original paintings often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you can’t afford that much,…
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Swirly Psychedelic Self-Portraits by Nikos Gyftakis
Greek artist Nikos Gyftakis created this wonderful series of swirling self-portraits between 2004-2005. The works are made with oil pastels on canvas and are actually quite large, with a few of the pieces taller than 5 feet(1.5m). You can see many more from this series and more of his recent work in his work gallery. And don’t forget, if…
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The Tiniest Paintings You Will Ever See
Microartist Hasan Kale creates impossibly small paintings you have to see to believe, using everyday objects as his canvas. The artist has been painting since childhood, starting his career drawing miniatures in Istanbul, Turkey. Kale considers these microworks a turning point for his career. On his website he explains, “things we usually see can turn into something…
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Hyper Realistic Bath Time PAINTINGS That Will Blow Your Mind
Alyssa Monks is a New Jersey-based artist who’s most famous for her stunning hyper realistic paintings. Although they seem like photographs, these are actually very detailed portraits of bathing people. “Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam, I distort the body in shallow painted spaces,“ Monks said of her techniques. “When I began…
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Is Street Artist Dran the French Banksy?
French street artist Dran uses his art to comment on issues concerning contemporary society. Being donned “the French Banksy” by some, his approach to street art is similar to the English graffiti artist in tone and message. Dran utilizes his dark sense of humor to criticize modern culture, often tackling topics concerning art, creativity, and…
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500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes! [VIDEO]
This is amazing: a mesmerizing 3-minute journey through 500 years of female portraits by Philip Johnson. Even if you’re no art expert, you will still appreciate the beauty of these masterpieces and get blown away by the evolution of art over the years. How many of the 90 paintings do you recognize? Watch the video…
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Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are (a little NSFW)
Victoria Selbach is a painter and nudes are her subject of choice. But don’t expect her artistic outpout to resemble Will Cotton’s airy pinup girls, John Currin’s luminous buxom forms or Lucian Freud’s fleshy animals. No, Selbach spares all elements of added fantasy or repulsion in her artworks, rendering her subjects, female and unclothed, as…
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These aren’t real animals! Wildlife Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye
With the exception of the repurposed containers, almost every aspect of these artworks by Singapore-based artist Keng Lye (previously) has been rendered in acrylic paint, carefully applied within layers of clear resin. A fish in a plastic bag, a tin can of tadpoles swirling under a frog on a lilypad, and even a completely convincing betta constructed…