Category: Realism
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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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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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Michael Sydney Moore: a masterpiece in the making
The above work is actually a painting. No photoshop. No filters. No editing. Paint brush and oil paint only. The artist is Michael Sydney Moore, a 23 year old oil painter working out of a Studio in London. You might not have heard about him before, but given his prodigious talent at such a young age, it won’t…
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Are You a True Art Expert?
Below are a number of famous paintings by artists from around the world. Can you recognize the artist from just a small section of the painting? Try out our quiz and let us know your score in the comments section below!
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A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times
You know when you’re horsing around at the beach and accidentally swallow a nasty gulp of salt water? Well we hate to break it to you but that foul taste wasn’t just salt. Photographer David Littschwager captured this amazing shot of a single drop of seawater magnified 25 times to reveal an entire ecosystem of crab larva, diatoms, bacteria,…
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Incredibly Realistic Rainy Day Paintings by Karen Woods
On a rainy afternoon, artist Karen Woods observes large raindrops as they transform windshields and window panes into beautiful formations. She then converts those meditative moments into mesmerizing oil paintings that capture the tranquility of a quiet, stormy day. In her paintings, Woods turns everyday urban scenes into impressive moments filled with captivating distortions. She…
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We Thought These People Looked Weird. A Closer Look Left Us Absolutely Speechless
OK well the title of this blog is a little misleading as we’ve known about Australian ex-pat Ron Mueck‘s works for some time and have been speechless every time we’ve had the opportunity to see them in “the flesh”. Ron continues to amaze with his sculptures. He used to be a model maker and puppeteer for…
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artFido’s North American Artist Showcase – artFido blog
artFido is less than two years old. Yet in that short amount of time, this little puppy has developed quite a bark, becoming one of the most visited art-related sites in the world. In fact, by total visits we now rank in the top 0.01% of all websites globally and in the United States we…
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This Portrait of Morgan Freeman Was “Painted” on an iPad Using 285,000 Finger Strokes!
Remember iPad art? We previously wrote an article about David Kassan that tried it a little while ago to great effect (see HERE). Well British artist Kyle Lambert’s been practicing, and he’s gotten good. Like, photorealism good. The latest Lambert creation is this jaw-dropping portrait of Morgan Freeman. You almost feel like you can reach out and touch…
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HUGE Multi Story Mural by RONE in Berlin
Australian street artist RONE recently completed work on this great five-story mural on building facade at Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. The artist is known for straddling the line between beauty and decay by creating large-scale depictions of idealized portraits that appear perfectly composed at a distance, but a closer inspection reveals signs of deterioration and imperfection. You can…