http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342463/Artist-Denis-Peterson-ss-realistic-paintings-look-like-photographs.html

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"Artist Denis Peterson leaves onlookers impressed with his real life scenes showing cities around the world - but gobsmacked when they realise every inch of these pictures are painted. At first glance some of his works look like a simple billboard over a busy urban setting. But on closer inspection the hidden secret is revealed - even the tiny people and obscure reflections on background windows have been conjured up by his brushstrokes. The paintings look like photos but far from being captured in a fraction of a second, Denis' paintings take a month to complete and fetch up to £30,000 each. The 64-year-old, from New York, starts with a small photo which he then blows up 1-2000 times to capture every brick, facial expression and leaf in minute detail. He was one of the first 'photorealists' to emerge in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s and is widely acknowledged as the founder of 'hyper-realism'. On his website he says: 'As meaningful visual statements, my paintings go through a transformational painting process. 'The illusion of an alternate reality is secondary, a means to an end. My goal is to create timeless compositions that mesmerise the viewer and evoke a core response.' His most recent work involves street scenes with people being 'weighed down' by advertising billboards, like the ones showing New York. Some of his earlier work looked at the suffering felt by people imposed by governments and societies raising moral and political questions about military regimes. His pieces are displayed at galleries and museums in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Utah, California, UK, Italy, Corsica, Switzerland, and France."

See his entire portfolio at his site: http://www.denispeterson.com ... these are really awesome:
http://www.denispeterson.com/GalleryPageFourth.html

£30,000 x 12 = £360,000 = $550,000 per year

Not bad!

If red X's, click on http://www.denispeterson.com/GalleryPageFourth.html

12/30/2010 10:30:07 AM

Now that is a painting worth actually paying for

12/30/2010 10:32:19 AM

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"Now that is a painting worth actually paying for"

Not really. Alex Grey paintings are worth paying for. This shit is a copy of a photo. Fuck you.

12/30/2010 10:34:02 AM

^^Why?

[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : .]

12/30/2010 10:34:37 AM

this dude is to painting as turntablists are to music

12/30/2010 10:35:24 AM

1. Buy camera
2. Take picture
3. Don't spend $45,000 on a painting that looks like a picture
4. ....
5. Profit?

12/30/2010 10:37:43 AM

first person to call this postmodern is a dicklicker

12/30/2010 10:39:17 AM

GFK SON.

12/30/2010 10:39:53 AM

I guess I should add to my statement. If I was gonna pay some ridiculous amount for a painting this would seem much more worth it than say paying for some painting of a triangle and a circle and maybe a square or one where someone just slings paint at a canvas while having a mental fit.

12/30/2010 10:41:59 AM

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"The 64-year-old, from New York, starts with a small photo which he then blows up 1-2000 times to capture every brick, facial expression and leaf in minute detail."

cool story bro


o and this guy (who does realistic paintings) is actually impressive, not only because his painting are awesome but because he also is paralyzed and fucking FACE BLIND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close



[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM. Reason : asfsdfasdf]

12/30/2010 10:42:27 AM

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"I guess I should add to my statement. If I was gonna pay some ridiculous amount for a painting this would seem much more worth it than say paying for some painting of a triangle and a circle and maybe a square or one where someone just slings paint at a canvas while having a mental fit."

See the film Local Color my son. It will explain that real artists know this kind of shit is not just shit, it's bullshit.

12/30/2010 10:44:30 AM

The comments on The Daily Mail site are very heated. Some calling him a talentless person who does a big version of "color by numbers" (and why bother they say, you can simply print a digital image), some calling him extremely talented, even if there is no point to his art.

12/30/2010 10:44:52 AM

This painter disrespects real artists across the world son.

This is real art, asshole:

12/30/2010 11:02:04 AM

Didn't think SaabTurbo would find a way to work his knife fetish into this thread

12/30/2010 11:06:08 AM

EXCUSE ME, BUT THOSE ARE NOT KNIVES. THOSE ARE PIECES OF ART.

12/30/2010 11:07:33 AM

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"The comments on The Daily Mail site are very heated. Some calling him a talentless person who does a big version of "color by numbers" (and why bother they say, you can simply print a digital image), some calling him extremely talented, even if there is no point to his art."

He is talented, but there is literally zero creativity there.

EDIT: Let me rephrase that, if he took these photographs himself, then I will respect it more. If he just copied photos that other people took then I respect his talent at painting but not his art.

[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 12:11 PM. Reason : ]

12/30/2010 12:09:09 PM

he's like jasper johns

except he misses the point entirely

12/30/2010 12:13:44 PM

12/30/2010 12:23:32 PM

I actually like the paintings, or at least found something to enjoy about them

Gotta love how TWW takes paintings and devolves it into latent homosexual knife-worship within ONE. FUCKING. PAGE.

<3

12/30/2010 12:43:32 PM

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"Gotta love how TWW takes paintings and devolves it into latent homosexual knife-worship within ONE. FUCKING. PAGE."

TWW didn't do that. You did it.

12/30/2010 12:44:12 PM

you have your own knife thread, go there, quit putting rubbish into other threads

12/30/2010 1:13:22 PM

Someone should report McDanger to the SS guard.

12/30/2010 1:14:23 PM

wow, those paintings sure are hyper realistic!

12/30/2010 1:20:48 PM

Nobody has ever photographed starving and sad African children in super high-quality mode before. This guy is cutting edge

12/30/2010 1:24:02 PM

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"gobsmacked"

i love that word

12/30/2010 2:33:09 PM

instead of spending money on all that fuckin shit he could get that blackboy somethin to eat

12/30/2010 2:35:07 PM

trolls will be trolls.

i will take your bait. what money? i doubt it takes him more than $2-3K in supplies to make one painting. and then he sells it for $45K.

how do you know how much he gives to charity?

12/30/2010 2:52:29 PM

thats alotta Kudu

12/30/2010 2:54:14 PM

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"Someone should report McDanger to the SS guard."

L

O

L

12/30/2010 2:54:30 PM

the best:



so THAT'S where Patrice O'Neal is living now!

[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 3:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/30/2010 3:18:08 PM

I was coming in to say "chuck close did it better...and was mutha fuckin' paralyzed!" but I'm pleased to see I was beaten to the punch

12/30/2010 3:24:19 PM

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"EXCUSE ME, BUT THOSE ARE NOT KNIVES. THOSE ARE PIECES OF ART. shit"

Fixed.

12/30/2010 4:13:36 PM

Aw, my feelings are so hurt man. They really are.

12/30/2010 4:15:38 PM