As an ordinary viewer, modern paintings such as Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, and Abstraction are as obscure as reading a book from the sky. In fact, the expression of these art schools is to emphasize the expression of subjective emotions, negate the artistic tradition, and then abandon the depiction of the real natural world, which has a certain similarity with the capitalization in Chinese painting.
Wilson oil paintings
With highly generalized abstract representations, extreme detail reproductions are naturally produced — hyperrealism emerges. These hyperrealist artists returned the focus of painting to "representation" and "figuration", highly realistic but using subtle pictorial elements to create illusions of reality that did not actually exist or could not be seen by the naked eye. To put it bluntly, it is depicted to the extreme, as if it were highly restored under a microscope.
-There are many contemporary hyperrealist painters, such as the painter Leng Jun is the leading figure of China's hyperrealist genre, and his works have caused quite a stir as soon as they came out, and people are amazed at his oil paintings that are more like photos than photos, because he even shows the skin lines in a subtle way. In foreign countries, hyperrealist painters like Leng Jun are scaled up one after another, and the extreme realistic effect is even more jaw-dropping.
Leng Jun's oil paintings
American Evan Wilson is a famous contemporary master of hyperrealism, compared with Leng Jun, can only be said to be more than that, his oil paintings are huge, involving people, landscapes and still life flowers and other themes. His character portrayal is perfect, limbs, skin, hair... the details are impeccable, and it looks more realistic than the real human body. When the viewer looks at a certain distance, the realistic image portrayal forms a strong visual tension, and when entering the work, people see a realistic, strange but objectively true microscopic world like a microscope.
The most commendable of Wilson's paintings are his Sleeping Beauty series and the Still Life Floral Series, in which the silk worn by the figures and the porcelain in the still life have distinctly Chinese elements. The magnificent silk in the painting sets off the delicacy and magnificence of the characters, and the elegant porcelain and delicate flowers show a perfect combination of movement and stillness, and under his delicate and delicate depiction, it creates a quiet and ethereal illusion.
【Conclusion】
Compared with those obscure abstract paintings, the threshold for appreciation of hyperrealist paintings is extremely low, which is also the reason why it is quite popular with the public, even if the viewer without any art foundation is enough to arouse interest in such a realistic painting.
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