These paintings inspire me.

Thanks! Great pictures and some of them look SO REAL!

Great! That baby image is really cool.

Definetely i can’t belive they all painted!
Cool.

This is just unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!

only at the end did I realise that all the pix are painted. I thought it is a new trend to take photos artistically.

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I have great respect for those artists whose able to create such hyper-realistic paintings. but for me.. painting should look like a painting.. or else just take a camera and shoot.

very amayzing

I believe that these artists have an incredible talent. Their abilities are technically astounding. However I can’t help but think, “Why not just take a picture?” It is nearly a Warhol style of working (in concept).

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Am I supposed to be seeing something that fires my imagination. If so, fail.

Whenever I come across collections of hyper-realist paintings, there are always comments saying things like “why don’t you just take a picture?”

It’s not called photo-realistic for a reason. These paintings are trying to re-create what we see in reality, not what we would see in a photo, and by doing so they manage to escape that reality and bring us to a new one.

Not everyone will be inspired by these, obviously, as art is subjective, but they are without a doubt a interesting look at the nature of image.

There is no point in creating a painting of a photograph in a way that it is as similar as possible.

Very cool!.

Abolutely amazing! Still cant believe these have been painted. (would of been quicker to take a photo, but thats beside the point). Very talented people. Thanks for sharing.

I love these! and to people saying “there’s no point” are you asserting that those people who have the skill to paint something so realistically that your eye cannot tell the difference between what is reality and what is crafted illusion should not? I say that the fact that they are able to CREATE a world so similar to our own is an ART UNTO ITSELF.
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These are very amazing..although not all are painted. I know for a fact that at least the train station by Bert Monroy was created digitally, and I suspect some others were as well.

Not to sound judgemental, but I’ve never quite got the appeal of photorealism. Sure it’s very impressive and the technique is wonderful. But all I really get from it is “Wow, that looks like a photo” and that’s the end of it. If it was in a gallery I would most likely glimpse at it, then continue walking. I don’t find any real depth in it and it doesn’t make me think. To me art is about 2 things. Whether it has the effort put into it and whether it makes you think. Sure it may have taken 100 hours but that just makes me feel like they spent a 100 hours to tell me absolutely nothing.

can someone tell me what paint was used in these paintings, how long it took, and the real size of the paintings?

bravo!

it is a paint??looks like a photograph . .

outstanding
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I have spent many a day over the years looking at the paintings in the top art galleries, I especially love the Dutch painters. I however see hyper realist painting just as much a art as the old masters. You work is fantastic and awe inspiring, thank you for sharing it .

These are greatly impressive works. There are only a select few artists who could technically achieve what these artist have accomplished. It is not to be taken lightly because the subject is “like a photo”. You are looking at work from artists with an unusual amount of sensitivity.