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Believe it or not, these are paintings (30 Photos)

March 10, 2010 | In: Art

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Apparently, despite hardly believing this myself, all of these photos are fake. Instead, they’re hyper-real paintings from some of the best artists all around the globe. Check out more amazing work by Alyssa Monks at at alyssamonks.com.

porkchop sandwhiches

Agreed. Some names of artists would be greatly appreciated. Or at least for #1 and #25.

Also, gotta love the expression on the cat's face in #13. "Do it bitch! I dare you!"

1kissbee

#1 is done by Alyssa Monks the other two I am not sure about.

gg

I want to own ‘em all…. also 1st you bitches!

Anonymous

By calling ‘first’ you win the Chive’s “Dumbshit of the Day” award – congratulations! Your parents must be proud!

gg

How to wind up a w*nker in 1 easy move. Get a life and let people do what they feel they must – 1st,,2nd or 3rd who really gives a shit what you think?

Master Chicken

what’s the name of the artists?
NotCleverEnoughForARealUsername

…second? *sighs* I’ll never be first…

These were unreal, truly talented artists.

Yo Mama

You should change your screen name to “NotCleverEnoughToKnowWhenI’mNot2nd”

haha

MichaelGS

a few of them you can see are paintings, but still amazing paintings. wish i was this good
top dog

Damn, thats good!!
Preformed Cone

How is #1 not a photo?! That is just amazing!
2400cc

Wow that’s amazing. I appreciate the tribute to M.C. Escher in #24…

Anonymous

ha, i didn’t even catch that

Anonymous

#16!
meve76

is it possible to get a few names of the artists? great post anyway!
Brandon

Holy crap these are incredible. Especially the ones with water (1, 16, 25).
garp

…16 is farkin nuts, love these, all of them
Deal Masen

Uh airbrush? Or pure awesome painting skills?

yikes

digital arts and skills, I’d say

markybhoy

. They all look like they were done with Adobe Illustrator. I assume these are from illustratorworld.com. Amazing stuff.
Rusty

I’m calling bullshit on some of these being paintings. I think there’s a couple in there that are CGI.
Jacob Brine

Meh ive seen better
confused

damn i want these also i would like to know how to pain them
Champse

27 is a painting?!

No!
gene

Where do I buy!
JoJoBean

27th woo hooo!
Mia Kardallis

Rembrandt
ItzMe

#1 by Alyssa Monks
#7 and 8 By Glennray Tutor
wikipedia Photorealism
jeff in Australia

I love art. I love talented people, I wish I was one.
But.. If these paintings are as hard to distinguish from photo’s as they appear to be.
Why would you bother, not rubbishing the artist or their art, but in taking a photo you would end up with exactly the same results, a lot quicker, and easier.
Guess they would sell at a fraction of the cost though so I guess they have it right.

David Luhr

A lot of people wonder the same thing about Hyperrealism and Photorealism. Many simply ask "why bother when you can just take a photo?"

Every artist has a very unique reason, but many have expressed a desire to shown an alternate reality. A camera adds many elements that cannot be seen with the human eye such as depth of field, lens flare, etc., and a painting of a photo leaves even more room for a different version of reality.

Of course, some do it simply for the challenge, but many artists (including myself, a fellow realist), want to develop a relationship with image over the many many hours of creating it. If it was simply a photo, we may not feel that viewers will see this commitment and relationship to the subject. We employ cameras another tool to make possible our work.

Check out PoetsAndArtists.com which has some great interviews of many of the artists featured here.

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