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Giant Photorealistic Sculpture: Pics, Videos, Links, News. The 8 world’s most prominent hyper-realist sculptors. Raboty-Ron-Mueck.html from ziza.ru. Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures. Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.

Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures

Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists. Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale. Photorealistic sculptors create truly amazing sculptures that will make you feel wonder, revulsion and the sense of looking in someone else’s mirror. In this post we feature sculptors Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane who produce sculpture that seems alive in every detail, right down to veins and rashes on skin. This compilation should give you a cross section of modern photorealistic sculpture. Ron Mueck Ron Mueck is one of the premier names in the photorealistic sculpture field. Evan Penny Jamie Salmon. Portrait Sculptures by Philippe Faraut. Emil Alzamora. & jannike viveka. Stephane Halleux - Sculpteur.

The Best Art Sculptures By Mark Newman. Artist of the week: T. K. Miller. Tim lives in Colorado, US, and sculpts various and sundry items for Sideshow Collectibles, including many of the Adam Hughes’ line of comiquettes, portraits for McFarlane Design Group, and hot flossy babes for Bowen Designs.

Artist of the week: T. K. Miller

Pages: 1 2. The Birthday Party. My first take on these images from Australian photographic dynamo, Vee Speers was captivation.

The Birthday Party

I loved the light and quality of the images, the softness of the colours, those little stern faces and most definitely the slightly edgy and dark vibe that they convey. However, I know that they are not everyones cup of tea…the dead animals, mutilated dolls, and slightly “bad dreamesque” type subject matter. Learn more about the Vee’s angle here at Just another Agency blog. I am VERY interested to know what you think? Creative beautiful art? Not Your Average Wax Figures.

"Sculptor Carole Feuerman’s hyper-realistic work might look like those celebrity wax figures, but they’re more Michaelangelo than Madame Tussaud’s.

Not Your Average Wax Figures

" via. Section targeting. Junk Portraits by Zac Freeman. Since 1999, Zac began collecting junk found around often in the trash, then glued to a wooden substrate to form an image an image – in the case, portraits.

Junk Portraits by Zac Freeman

His artworks are made by assembling on a large-scale (the pieces average about 28 “by 35″) and when viewed up close looks like a series of small objects stuck meaningless, but when seen from far away are impressive portraits. > zacfreemanart.com. EK Interview: Thom Puckey. The Great Wall of Vagina. It’s not as old or as long as the Great Wall of China, but artist Jamie McCartney’s “Great Wall of Vagina” is definitely more shocking.

The Great Wall of Vagina

The English sculptor has spent the last five years working on this controversial artwork, casting plaster molds of 400 vulvas of women aged 18 to 76. The models used for the McCartney’s Great Wall of Vagina include mothers and daughters, identical twins, transgendered men and women, as well as a woman pre and post natal.

He wanted to include as many possibilities as he could, and during the five years of work looked for someone who had suffered from genital mutilation to model for him, without success. So why does someone create such a bizarre, intriguing work of art? Well, according to the artist: Vulvas and labia are as different as a faces and many people, particularly women, don’t seem to know that… showing the variety of shapes is endlessly fascinating, empowering and comforting. Photos via Juxtapoz.