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The photorealist work of Argentinian painter Diego Gravinese takes the genre into interstellar overdrive. Have you ever gone into a convenience store whilst under the influence of hearty dose of psilocybin? That’s what Diego’s work reminds me of – intense waves of hypereality so electrifying they make you feel as if you’re drowning in god’s neon slurpee of love – and livin’ every minute of it as if it were your last.
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Fantastic works!
Comment by xellliu August 25, 2008 @ 6:48 amwow. so cool and surreal to see the process
Comment by mette/ungt blod August 25, 2008 @ 10:42 amBORING!!!
Comment by 555 August 25, 2008 @ 12:12 pmOh really? please qualify that comment, as multiple exclamation points do not amount to a worthwhile criticism.
Comment by thepublics August 25, 2008 @ 12:18 pmVery good craftsmanship but hardly art.. what’s the point exactly if they’re photorealistic and he also has the picture..
Comment by milK August 25, 2008 @ 12:31 pmI always thought the same about Vermeer, what’s the point exactly if the person is sitting right in front of you?
Comment by richie August 25, 2008 @ 12:48 pmBeautiful paintings!
I don’t know if I fully agree with painting exact replicas of photographs. Why use paint if you want to want to tell the story of a photograph? Is he a photographer or a painter…or neither?
Either way, this type of realism in painting has been around for a long time and this is a wonderful contemporary example of this.
Comment by adam August 25, 2008 @ 1:03 pmAmazing craftsmanship and composition. i think Chuck close would have a laugh at the negative comments and the narrow view of what art is or isn’t. i know i did
Comment by bump August 25, 2008 @ 2:02 pm[...] Beyond Beyond The photorealist work of Argentinian painter Diego Gravinese takes the genre into interstellar overdrive. Have you [...] [...]
Pingback by Top Posts « WordPress.com August 25, 2008 @ 4:02 pmcool but he projects the images onto the wall first…
Comment by J. Beso August 25, 2008 @ 5:47 pm“cool but he projects the images onto the wall first…”
and….so…dot dot dot.
Comment by y---ko August 25, 2008 @ 8:04 pmquite interesting!
Comment by paul sandip August 25, 2008 @ 8:57 pmPainting from life is totally different from painting from photos, anyone who has drawn from live models for a good amount of time can tell you that. And Chuck Close used a grid system, he didn’t just trace.
I’m not saying this artist is bad. He does have good craftsmanship, and he probably set-up and took the photos himself, which are nice. There have been beautiful works of art done by artists who looked at photos. However, this artist’s original photo has richer emotion and colors than the painting, so it makes me feel like, in his case, “what’s the point?”
Chuck Close looked at photos, but he took the painting so much further than what the original photos were.
Comment by Jeanie August 25, 2008 @ 9:11 pmI disagree, I think the paintings have a wonderful magic to them that makes them seem far more real than the photographs. Photographs are always in a way flat, but you can feel the life and depth of these paintings leap out at you. I love them! and I think your being too traditionalist, as if you have to paint a certain way for it to be “real”
Comment by y---ko August 25, 2008 @ 9:19 pm[...] Diego Gravinese’s paintings….. Paintings?! [...]
Pingback by Photorealism at Bangkok Mafia August 26, 2008 @ 1:23 amOh! nice picture…That is wonderful
Comment by sopheakyel August 26, 2008 @ 1:45 amnice drawing dude…wnderful
Comment by aril August 26, 2008 @ 6:29 amhmm…have to agree that while the artist
Comment by mantecanaut August 26, 2008 @ 12:23 pmmay be skilled, this approach seems to
lack creativity.
But then, what the hell do I know?[not much]
This is awesome. Thanks for posting the “process” pictures…
Comment by Renee August 26, 2008 @ 8:25 pmThe POINT (I didn’t know art needed a purpose or point to bring relevancy to it’s creative endeavors) could be that these are the images the artist chooses? There is no denying the images provoke “feelings” upon sight…Also the medium of paint has a gravity photography doesn’t…
Comment by Stephanie G August 29, 2008 @ 12:02 pmStephanie G said :”I didn’t know art needed a purpose or point to bring relevancy to it’s creative endeavors”
Hmmm, what is this ‘relevancy’ you speak of? Relevant to whom? In relation to what? Oh, sorry, that’s ‘art’ isn’t it ; a relativistic, self-congratulatory butter-hand-shake…anything you want it to be.[but it may leave your hand sticky]
Comment by mantecanaut August 29, 2008 @ 5:32 pmLet’s face it : this is the sort of thing an artist does as practice before he/she gets an actual “idea”.
Nice to see someone who can actually paint for a change! what is this world coming to???
Comment by Notendo September 2, 2008 @ 9:20 pm[...] das Private nicht mehr vom Öffentlichen getrennt werden kann, ist man bei Diego Gravinese. Seine Realität und sein Werk sind eins. Der fotorealistische Maler aus Buenos Aires malt, was [...]
Pingback by Das Private des Diego Gravinese - TheJunction September 18, 2008 @ 11:22 pmIt really is a whole different thing to paint from a photo than from your imagination or a live model. It’s a bunch of these artists out there painting from photos and I think all of them are equally boring. Why make a painting from a photo that looks like a photo? For me this kind of art is more a proof of godlike patience doing something completly meaningless. Like running around a pole for a week. It’s worth a golf clap, but not very difficult.
Comment by jens November 19, 2008 @ 11:54 pmNice photos though.
Most people criticizing his amazing work as “unartistic” are just plain jealous of his virtuosity.
Comment by Galdr June 17, 2009 @ 10:04 pm