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Old 05-22-2007, 07:08 AM   #1
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May 22, 2007: "Painting of Tica" - this is not a photograph



Artist Dru Blair painted - yes painted - this image from a printout of a digital photo. Head over to Mr Blair's site to see versions of the painting at various stages of completion. It took the gent 70 hours to finish this item. He has an interesting take on photorealism:

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As a style, Photorealism has a few detractors, who often dismiss it as pointless, or non-art. They fail to realize that many photorealistic paintings are not mere copies of photographs, but interpretations of reality based on the artist's vision. The act of merely copying a photograph has no artistic merit except to hone one's artistic skills. Most of my aviation paintings would be impossible to photograph, such as Timing is Everything for example. This painting of Tica is not just a copy of a photograph, but is a product of many artistic decisions, whereas I deviated from the reference photo for more aesthetic appeal.

Often, the artist's deviation from the reference material is unconscious. Despite my best efforts, my own unconscious stylization creeps into all of my work, and it is a struggle to keep it subdued.

Photographic reference is almost always used as a guide by photorealists, but becomes less necessary as an artist gains proficiency, and understanding of the elements of photorealism. While reading the list of the elements of realism, consider that no other artistic style demands so much of an artist. Photorealism is by far, the most difficult artistic style to master.
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:23 AM   #2
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Ce n'est pas une pipe
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:41 AM   #3
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Why is it not a pipe?

Wow, sure looks like a photograph.
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:01 AM   #4
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@Shawnee123: It's not a pipe, it's a painting of a pipe.
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:09 AM   #5
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I'm so confused.

I was joking, but not sure what I was joking about. I don't remember the word pipe from my two quarters of college French.

Am I just completely obtuse? (Please don't say it.)
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:20 AM   #6
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I'm so confused.

I was joking, but not sure what I was joking about. I don't remember the word pipe from my two quarters of college French.

Am I just completely obtuse? (Please don't say it.)


It's a famous surrealist painting by Magritte. The idea is that one shouldn't mistake a representation of a thing for the thing itself -- each should be seen for itself, not for how it resembles the other one. It sort of refers to the discourse in French philosophy/ literary theory about the relation between the signifier and the signified.
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:25 AM   #7
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All the art history classes I took in college and I missed that reference. I remember the Son of Man better, though.

Have you ever heard "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon? Neat song.
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Old 05-22-2007, 12:05 PM   #8
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Isn't every person you see in magazine ads, billboards and movies a painting? Either Photoshop or makeup artist.
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Old 05-22-2007, 12:06 PM   #9
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I like the way you think, Bruce.
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Old 05-22-2007, 12:51 PM   #10
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Actually, I bet it is a photograph. A photograph of a painting. :-)

(Yes, I know I'm being pedantic.)
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Old 05-22-2007, 01:40 PM   #11
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He painted the chromatic abberation and blur caused by the camera lens, too? The closeup doesn't even show any hints that it isn't a photograph and the "various stages" images are too small to prove it.

Ahh...maybe. Damn impressive if real.
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Old 05-22-2007, 02:50 PM   #12
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All the art history classes I took in college and I missed that reference.
Don't fret chick. I have never actually seen the painting, only read about it, and heard it referenced. If anyone had asked me to describe it I would have ended up with ostrich sized egg on my face - I thought it was a pipe as in oil-pipe, water-pipe, heating-pipe etc. I had no idea it was a smoking type pipe.

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Have you ever heard "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon? Neat song.
It is indeed.
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Old 05-22-2007, 07:44 PM   #13
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He painted the chromatic abberation and blur caused by the camera lens, too? The closeup doesn't even show any hints that it isn't a photograph and the "various stages" images are too small to prove it.

Ahh...maybe. Damn impressive if real.
I thought the same about the "various stages". I want to see the layers as he build up the eyes... etc.

utter sceptic regards............
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Old 05-23-2007, 01:20 AM   #14
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Isn't every person you see in magazine ads, billboards and movies a painting? Either Photoshop or makeup artist.
Very true. - Besides what's all the fuss about photorealism? Terry Pratchett has got it right: A camera is just a box with an imp inside, painting away like mad. We've (almost) all got one
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Old 05-23-2007, 05:16 AM   #15
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Well this "painting" has been partly put togeather by air-brush, so I gather from his website, air-brush makes skin so much easier to do
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