Amazing photorealism : theCHIVE

The paintings you see here belong to a type of art called photorealism where the painter takes a scene or photo and recreates it on canvas.

James

Bob Ross could've done these with is eyes closed!
RTW

WOW!!!
TXJeepr

theChive posted some of Eric Christensen's work a few months ago, and I decided to email a gallery just to see how much these things were going for….$20,000. Who the hell has $20,000 to spend on a painting? Talk about first world problems.
2drunk2frag

#18 makes me salivate.
Underbaker

Very impressive, but why would someone want to put all that effort into a photo-realistic painting of newspapers? #15 #16 I get the nature stuff and by the way those beach scenes are just incredible, but newspapers?
bisonbade

mind blown!
dragon30

how just fucking how do they do it
the don

shopped.
Thoridin58

Damn. I have trouble just drawing a straight line and stick figures.
Robozombiejesus

That's pretty cool, my camera does the same thing
cdnalor

For the same reason that someone would set up hundreds of dominoes just to knock them over. It' s an impressive display of patience.

That is just

Pointless…
Da Sandman

THIS is art… i hate these new modern art paintings where some idiot just makes a smudge, makes up some bull shit story and calls it art…
moeshere Foxdale

#20 #21 I know dam well a women did'nt paint this shit ahahahhahaa
Ian

Let me see this shit on a canvas in front of my face. Them I’ll believe
Steve

Find #41 from 12/14/11 DAR!
Pocono Jackson

thats just seems unreal to me ,but amazing if real