I was enjoying a discussion with someone about hyperrealism around the time I wrote last night about my love for the works of Eric Christensen, Pedro Campos, Steve Mills, and Nathan Taylor, when they kept insisting that stil life paintings, particularly those that are close to a photograph, lack emotion.  (I completely disagree - the reason I love hyperrealism is because it stirs far more emotion in me than most other genres of art.) But I started thinking about this notion that an "artist" … [Read more...]

Jaroslaw Kukowski has painted a work of art that literally gave me chills when I saw it. Most people won't understand the reason, but the title of the work is "Tower of Babel II". Overall, I can't say I'm a huge fan of a lot of his work (paintings like "Praying Mantis" are disturbing, to say the least).  But the symbolism and truth in this one ... he communicated an entire world of ideas in a single symbol. … [Read more...]

Hyperrealism is my favorite style of painting.  Then again, I've always felt like life, as it is, is beautiful.  Life, in all of its messy, unpredictable madness of patterns and light, din and music.  It is difficult to explain, but when I see a certain style of painting in the hyperrealism genre, I instantly get the same overwhelming sense of joy that bursts forth when I discover a highly profitable, well-run business or when I hear a unique composition that comes out of nowhere.  (As I … [Read more...]