Hyperrealism with Tom Mulliner

Two months worth of artists today as I've been quite lax in posting them regularly in recent months (so 26 new ones for you, ok)?! There are a few artists featured this month that had previously 'slipped through the net' - meaning I fully intended on adding them ages ago and never got around to doing so. So apologies there to Ian Bodnaryk, Kelvin Okafor and Doug Bloodworth. Also, some images of my two new paintings; La Trahision des Yeux and Bowl of Apples . Those of you whom are acquainted with my Facebook profile may have already seen them. But first, the artists for June and July to add to my bloglist of over 350 artists now: 'PHOTOREALISTS/HYPERREALISTS LIST' Lorenzo Fernandez Eric Pouillet Ian Bodnaryk Kelvin Okafor Johan Scherft Julia Randall Francisco Cienfuegos Doug Bloodworth Serena Potter Daan van Doorn Alfonso Luque Carol Huddleston Arturo Samaniego Lisa Ober Margaret Morrison Tom Eckert Cristina Penes...

Bowl of apples is one of those paintings that has been lying around in my studio for a while, unfinished, awaiting further work. I recently acquired a set of Golden Open Acrylics to play with and picked this unfinished piece from the archives to test out these new paints. I started on the apples with thin glazes of the open acrylics then moved on to the rest of the piece with a combination of thins glazes and airbrush. The result is Bowl of Apples.

In 1928-29, Belgian Surrealist artist, Rene Magritte painted his piece 'La Trahision des Images'- 'The Treachery of Images.' The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe.', French for 'This is not a pipe.' "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe,' I'd have been lying!" - Rene Magritte. My painting - 'La Trahison des Yeux' (The Betrayal of the Eyes). An homage to Belgian Surrealist, Rene Magritte's 'La trahison des images' or 'The Betrayal of Images' is a commentary on how our eyes are compelled to see a photo rather than a painting or the real object when looking at realist artwork. My aim was to create a painting that looked like it was a photograph and a real pipe, yet on closer inspection was neither. A 'trompe l...

You can't have a photoreal blog without paying tribute to the original photorealist artists that help found the movement and some of their contemporaries; so here they are for you with a little bit of art history thrown in. Enjoy. - Tom A Brief History of PHOTOREALISM. A few years after the end of the Second World War, the art movements Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art became all the rage. Artists such as Mark Tobey, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock painted huge canvases of squiggles and marks by flicking, throwing, dribbling and splashing paint onto the surface in what would initially seem random gestures. These works were a visual outward expression of the artist at the time of painting them, rather than an illustration of his feelings or of any subject matter. Pollock sometimes used bicycles to distribute the paint marks but preferred to use sticks! Abstract Expressionist - Jackson Pollock Watch: Jackson Pollock Documentary on youtube Pop Art on the other ...

April (yes, I know it's May now) but this month, I'll be posting NOT ONE, BUT TWO blogs to make up last month's late entry with a very special list of artists! Huh? Special? I hear you say! Well, you'll it'll be a blog special featuring many of the original photorealists. (Plus, apologies to last month's artists as I didn't get around to adding you all to the BIG list - all done now though) 'PHOTOREALISTS/HYPERREALISTS LIST' Daniel Dust David Cunningham David Jamieson J W Jeong Jessica Rebik Kevin Cyr Natalia Fabia Nick Flatt Jenny Morgan Susannah Martin Danny Heller Stefania Fersini/ Kevin Peterson Christian Faur Marcus Akesson Julmard Vicente Marc Trujillo Kate Brinkworth