It's an understatement, but that's both amazing and outrageous!!!
The guy can take up to 500 hours to make a single piece... I can make one just in 1/500s LOL.
It's an understatement, but that's both amazing and outrageous!!!
The guy can take up to 500 hours to make a single piece... I can make one just in 1/500s LOL.
To me it begs the question "Why??" I mean, if I could paint photorealistic scenes, I would paint stuff that could not exist - if you paint everyday scenes that look so much like photos, you have to tell people "that's a painting" for them to even be impressed. Not saying it's not an amazing skill though - it most definitely is.
The way he does it is by taking a photograph, printing it out, then reproducing it with oils. To me, the only creative part is taking the original photograph, the rest is pure technical skill, matching the colour of each square millimetre. A human photocopier. So if you asked him to "paint stuff that could not exist", I would imagine he would struggle to include the same level of detail.
'Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical “presence” of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture.'
Fascinating links in this thread. Reminded me of Ben Johnson, an artist in the UK. He uses thousands of photos as the starting point. He recently had an exhibition a the National Gallery in London. This short video is well worth watching as it goes into detail about how he works. A lot of computers and assistants and time involved.
Ben Johnson - The Modern Perspective Ben Johnson Website
:) You should see the guys in Shenzhen China. There's a whole street of people all lined up doing this.
You take them a picture (photo or painting) and they'll re-paint it for you and send it back in the post.
And it looks amazing.
To me it begs the question "Why??" I mean, if I could paint photorealistic scenes, I would paint stuff that could not exist - if you paint everyday scenes that look so much like photos, you have to tell people "that's a painting" for them to even be impressed. Not saying it's not an amazing skill though - it most definitely is.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, I guess the skill is copying rather than creating, which is a shame really.
