UK-born Nathan Walsh specializes in creating elaborate photorealistic paintings of major cities, but whatever, here are the ones from New York.
From Times Square to the Queensboro Bridge to Brighton Beach, we could spend a long time navigating each meticulous detail of his pieces. One of the most interesting aspects of Walsh’s work is his process: Rather than replicating actual photographs section-by-section (as many photorealistic painters do), he creates a blueprint-like sketch of the scene before painting it on canvas.
Walsh’s work will be featured at the Changing Perspectives conference on human-computer interaction this month in Paris.
Swiss artist Till Rabus pays homage to Salvador Dalí with his deliciously bizarre series "Surrealist Camping Lunch." In Rabus' anthropomorphic food-themed reinterpretations of paintings like The Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Temptation of St. Anthony, Dalí's signature stretched elephant legs become eating utensils and his metaphorical egg becomes… an egg. Rabus' work…
American artist Betty Tompkins needs your help. Tompkins specializes in "large scale photorealistic paintings of heterosexual intercourse." They're like... very photorealistic. The "Fuck Paintings" were displayed in Miami last year. For her next series of works, the artist wants you to tell you what words you use to describe women. As per the open email call…
To create these vaguely unsettling images, sculptor Nathan Sawaya and photographer Dean West augment staged but otherwise realistic scenes with an extra shot of artifice in the form of hyperrealistic LEGO sculptures. In the image above, it's the cute little dog and the mannequin in the window. Each photo presents…
