2012 Year in Pictures: Part II - The Big Picture. 2012 Year in Pictures: Part III - The Big Picture. Best nature pictures of 2012 - The Big Picture. 15 Unbelievable Paintings That Look Like Photographs. Apr 3, 2012 Pedro Campos (46), is an incredible hyperrealist painter from Madrid, Spain. Using oil paints he recreates incredibly realistic still life shots that many might mistake for a photograph. He’s worked in a variety of creative fields from interior decorating, illustration (at an ad agency), to art restoration on furnishings, paintings and sculptures. He actually didn’t even begin oil painting until the age of 30. Campos attributes his work in restoration to honing his craft in precision, stating: “I think the influence of restoration in developing my own way of painting has been important.
While many compare Campos to other realist masters, he proclaims his artistic admiration for artists such as: Lucien Freud, Richard Estes, Francis Bacon, Antonio López, and Anish Kapoor, for their quality of “distinction” in their works. Below you will find a small sample of Pedro’s incredible work. If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: Extraordinary Collage Art from Paper Strips. Originally mainly a painter, artist Patrick Bremer has recently started making quite extraordinary collage work as well. He creates his pieces with layers of collaged magazines and books on paper. Based in the UK, the artist chooses strips and chunks of paper that fit the image both visually but also sometimes textually, it isn’t as haphazard as it appears! He said, “Some pieces are chosen specifically because the image or text relates to the sitter, but others are left to chance. The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it.”
The work conveys both a sense of violence in the thick chunks combined with a meticulousness that results in the quite detailed human portraits or scenes. When describing his work, the artist said, “I wanted my work to be a combination of both – loose and carefree mark-making that leads to happy accidents in the work, but also carefully planned out.” Japaness Art. Artist 9. Artist 1. Edward burra.
Sistine Chapel. Henri Rousseau. The Emergence Pool.