Stitch on 27/3/2009 at 02:51
I'm more on the Kolya side of this one than I am not, but I also think it's probably not exactly ideal to experience these via our monitors as little photos of paintings of photos. I'm guessing that staring these paintings right in the full scale face would be a bit of a religious experience.
Gambit on 27/3/2009 at 02:57
Maybe the artist´s intention is to challenge photography itself.
When photography was created people started questioning why photorealism in paintings was needed since photos could do better than that.
Now this guy makes something that looks as... "real as reality itself". So the question would be: why the need of realism in photos if paintings can portray realism better ?
The moral of the story, maybe: there´s no realism. No medium can say "I show reality better than you".
Scots Taffer on 27/3/2009 at 03:37
Quote Posted by Starrfall
It IS boring. I wouldn't say it has no artistic merit, but it's boring. I mean if van gogh had been a photorealist then cafe terrace wouldn't be up in our bathroom, you know?
von gogh can suck a dick
I think the composition and photorealism of this painting really introduces an interesting artistic standpoint along the line of Gambits post with regards to photography and its merits.
PigLick on 27/3/2009 at 03:42
a dog taking a crap on a wedding cake is pretty real
heretic on 27/3/2009 at 04:25
Oscar Wilde be damned!
Stitch on 27/3/2009 at 04:33
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
von gogh can suck a dick
you've gone too far
Muzman on 27/3/2009 at 04:58
Photos could never do what painting can do. I suspect that's the point of this stuff. These things are three feet high, some of them and hyper-real in their crisp grainfree-ness: something that's unbearably difficult to do in printed photography and probably looks uniquely awesome on a wall (well all the dishes ones I like anyway). Plus to amplify the effect it's a lot of stuff painters avoid like the plague (well, the ones with loads of conflicting reflecting surfaces anyway. Magazine racks, not so much)
The soup cans is cute.
demagogue on 27/3/2009 at 06:00
I can dig this stuff.
But it's not at the artistic level of someone like Gerhard Richter (even just in terms of influence on the culture and other artists). Now there's a guy who brought photorealistic painting (and variations on it) to artistic depths, and influenced the entire German modern art scene while he was at it.
Nicker on 27/3/2009 at 07:56
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
von gogh can suck a dick
Quote Posted by Stitch
you've gone too far
Indeed!
Of course, he could suck his ear... just saying.
