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Hyperreal Paintings by Diego Gravinese
January 9, 2012 ⋅ Arts ⋅ by Gwyneth Goh ⋅ 50486 Views

When “real” just isn’t sufficient for describing the real, Hyperreal. Diego Gravinese lends much to the genre with his modern twist of super real surrealist oil and acrylic paintings on canvas – hand tweaked replicas of photographs curiously mundane and randomly curious all at once. Taking photo realism to an extreme, the Argentinian artist combines pop art elements with great technical skill to recreate imagery that boggles the mind.

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  • Sandra Snan

    Trevor: the point is that the end results look more alive than a photo.
    Most people can start with a photo and make it look “like a painting” or start with a photo and increase the color a bit and so on. But these are just popping of the page. Some weird subtle effects at play.

  • http://twitter.com/nicotroia Nico Troia

    shut the fuuuuck uupppp

  • Nathan Pierce

    hahaha describing something puts you above it. duh. thats what makes humans so important in the universe. we describe things and put ourselves above it haha

  • Rome_One

    funny how much people like art if it “looks like the real thing!”

  • http://twitter.com/iamnickpawson Nick Pawson

    you could take a photo and manipulate it in photoshop to look like this-like it was actually painted. with that being said, does the end product justify it’s worth or does the process? if you saw both side-by-side without knowing the process would they both be appreciated equally although there may be a difference of days or even weeks between them?

  • Anonymous

    Just look at his sketchbook, that’ll show his creativity and thought process.  Don’t make any brash decisions if you think he’s a great artist or not until you’ve seen his raw creativity; it;s not always about the finished product.

  • http://twitter.com/panamaxRED Lux

    Standard internet warrior. Bashes other peoples talents, has nothing to show of his own. 

  • http://twitter.com/@__________LINE __________LINE

    You should totally give me a handjob. Put those fingers of yours to better use y’know?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe number 2 is a painting, its astonishing

  • Trevor Woods

    Actually, I guarantee I can. So, show me the money and I’ll show you the work. 

  • zaire sais

    i can. where do i sign?

  • http://twitter.com/strictlyriddim Temisan Adoki

    Touche…

    Yeah, my art history was hurting there. Chuck Close was really the one to bring that style to the forefront. He combined it with abstraction (some of his paintings where he made portraits that incorporated geometry and such) and took it to another level. Close was 70s I’m assuming and Gephardt came about the same time later on in the decade. I like both of their stuff and have always been a fan of that style.

    I used to do oil painting in high school and my earlier years of college dreaming that I could get to that level of conveying realism. If I could, I would just paint portraits of people and combine it with extreme surrealism and graffiti elements. I’m still working on it and I have my goals, but that type of thing is expensive and requires intense training. one day though…LOL!

  • Anonymous

    When I went to an art show of my university’s art department, I saw a whole bunch of abstract work that the majority of people wouldn’t be able to appreciate. But if you were to ask those artists to paint something like this, they would most likely fail. Yet this work is something that the majority of people and art snobs alike can appreciate.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll personally give you 15k if you can paint a painting after a photo as good as this. 

    Oh wait you can’t hahha..dumbass. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1553626427 Alexander Ikhide

    LOL you sir is fucking brilliant! XD

  • http://twitter.com/MadBurgerO MadBurger

    Impressive.

  • Tony Romano

    You misspelled Chuck Close.

  • http://www.ajani.ca Ajani

    These paintings are mind-blowing!

    Wow! 

  • passinggrade123

    So. . talent?

  • http://www.flawlessri.com/real_talk_vol2.html LLaqui

    She can eat me! yum!

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  • Anonymous

    ^this dude thinks he’s the overseer of all art, or something.
    the fact that you say you know so much about work, or more than other posters, combined with the fact that you don’t recognize the point, merely because lots of other college kids use a similar medium to express themselves….well, it’s ironic. just because you don’t appreciate it doesn’t devalue it as art, or prevent others from enjoying it. a lot of art is boring to some people and fascinating to others. but regardless of how it is received doesn’t make it not art. but, that’s right, i don’t need to tell you this, because you know so much about art.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a retard. Go sharpen your crayons.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EH2USJJ2NLB3OZDWFO3NLWNEVM Christian

    what you just named is artistic skill. you have to have a good eye, and have skill with the medium of choice to be a good artist. He just didnt create this, but im pretty sure he’s a creative SOB being able to paint things like this making it look like it’s the original photo. Stop hating on him, I don’t see hypebeast doing a full thread on you.

  • Anonymous

    aright so whens ur art work gonna be posted up here.

  • Trevor Woods

    Why, because I know more about art than you do?

  • Anonymous

    if these don’t look like photos to you, this guy failed.

  • http://twitter.com/strictlyriddim Temisan Adoki

    Indeed. Also check out to godfather of photorealism Gephardt Richter…BTW, huge fan of Diego’s work…

  • http://twitter.com/austybram Austin Bram

    as Rene Calderon would say..”you can go kill yourself man”

  • http://www.regalgoldcoins.com/gold-ira.html Ira Gold

    Very impressive.

  • http://twitter.com/WheresMyHippo Herbert C. Hippos

    whats impressive is he paints with his toes.

  • http://twitter.com/jackrobertryan Jack Ryan

    dude for real, completely agreed. 

  • Trevor Woods

    What’s the point? He snapped a photo and painted it. It doesn’t take very much artistic talent to do that, just a lot of time, a good eye, and a little bit of skill with a brush. Who cares? Tons of people do this, walk down the hallway of any art department at any college in america and this shit abounds. 

  • Jason Wooldridge

    oh wait… omega

  • Jason Wooldridge

    Alpha

  • Anonymous

    missing the point entirely dude… anyone can snap a photo. It takes a stupid amount of skill and dedication to get to this level. Actually yeah good point.

  • Anonymous

    He’s knockin at the door don’t let the devil eeeen

  • Anonymous

    Y IS MY STEPDAD ALWAYS TELLIN US “WE AINT HIS KIDS” AND THAT “HE GOT NEEDS TOO” AND THAT “IF RAZELL WAN COME OVER AN WATCH TEEN MOM 2 THEN RAZELL CAN PAY THE ELECTRICITY BILL”?

  • Anonymous

    cripes 

  • http://twitter.com/KeefRSutherland Kazz M. Laidlaw

    Holy Ghost

  • http://twitter.com/andy_haines Andy Haines

    cool

  • http://twitter.com/SlackerK k K

    look like photos to me

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  • http://twitter.com/Mr_Button ben.

    if these look like photos to you your eyes are wonky.

  • Cassady Benson

    Wow. Very impressive… but I’m not sure I get the point. If you’re going to paint a picture to look exactly like a photograph why not just have the photograph?

  • Mark Fasanella

    nice to see something that actually took some time and talent to create

  • Anonymous

    Robert Standish is another to check out. Great work here though!

  • Anonymous

    shit the bed

  • http://twitter.com/Grakus_Art Grakus Art

    Bob Marley

  • http://twitter.com/usofakinwetod Wil

    yahweh…

  • Mckoy Deluxxe

    Jehovah?

  • Sean mckoy

    Jehovah?

  • Anonymous

    christ….

  • http://soundcloud.com/shigga SHIGGA

    yummy

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  • Anonymous

    lawd…..

  • klala0308

    God…..

  • Anonymous

    Jesus…..

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