Hyperrealistic Sculptures

[Danny_K]

One of the more amazing things i've seen in awhile enjoy :)

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/mind-blowing-hyperrealistic-sculptures/

[SalOnimaruRem]

siiiiicckk!! :D

and creepy...

[nauvice]

awesome article, really wish it had info on current exhibits for all of these, I've seen Ron Mueck's stuff before but never in real life... I'll bookmark so I can remember to look these up

And is it just me or do some of them still have Doll eyes? for some, their eyes gives it away that they arent real

[NanoBlack]

Hmmm... i would agree that "creepy" is the way to put it...

*stares, and shudders involuntarily*

[~Faust~]

Wow I'm extremely impressed! I have massive respect for hyper-realists.
Here's bodies you can eat: http://funfever.blogspot.com/2008/01/scary-body-parts-bakery-in-thailand.html

[Muz]

ron muecks stuff is always more impressive irl. Last time i was at the gallery here i saw one of them :). Really impressive stuff.

Havent seen the other guys stuff but just as impressive if nor more so :O!

[Carnifex]

love this kinda stuff.

[KarylGilbertson]

Wow, that was really great. Thanks for posting!

[ArtZealot]

It's so simple but so clever for an exhibit. awesome!

[velderia]

Ron Mueck is one of the premier names in the photorealistic sculpture field. He used some of his talent to create visual effects for the 1986 movie Labyrinth.
Awesomeee! :D

[LuckyDevil]

This sculpture is at the airport here where i live, i love to go by it every time i'm picking up someone from the airport, truly amazing work.

http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/sculptures/54.jpg

[Riley Stark]

These are unbelievable!

I can't imagine the patience it must take to put in every hair and every wrinkle.. But it's definitely the flaws and details that make them work/look so real.

I would love to see these in person.

[MikeMakesModels]

Ron Mueck is awesome - I got to visit his studio a couple... few... years ago. The big baby was just of of his mould and it were brilliant :D He also had all sorts of quick small things lying around - all of which were incredible...

If anyone is anywhere near London any time soon - check out the National Gallery. They have an exhibition on atm called The Sacred Made Real about Spanish polychrome (ie: painted in colour) sculptures.

I was there the other week and there's some amazing stuff. It's all 17th century religious stuff, carved from wood - but finished to perfection with glass eyes, ivory teeth, horn fingernails etc - it's pretty mindblowing.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/upload/img_400/Spanish-Sculpture-X6132-r-two-thirds.jpg http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/20a-23-cross-415.jpg

EDIT to add:
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[nauvice]

Wow I'm extremely impressed! I have massive respect for hyper-realists.
Here's bodies you can eat: http://funfever.blogspot.com/2008/01/scary-body-parts-bakery-in-thailand.html

why why why why why why..... people who buy this should be arrested and charged for most likely to become real cannibals

[gjpetch]

Briefly visiting the studio of Sam Jinks was one of the highlights of my life. His "Doghead" is just the most extraordinary piece of artistic virtuosity I've ever seen.
http://www.users.on.net/~gjpetch/ref/sam_jinks/ca/IMG_5699.jpg

[Brashen]

Impressive but doesn't have the artistic values of the classical Roman and Greek statues.

[gjpetch]

Who can compete with a culture like ancient Greece that's been popularly and academically exalted through our own culture's whole history? Its easy to forget that the pure, ethereal white image we associate with Greek and Roman sculpture is not how they were originally shown; they were originally painted, often in somewhat lurid colour.
There are current sculptors who riff off the ancient Greek/Roman style, Marc Quinn for example. Great, but is that actually better than the work above, which riffs more on special effect techniques? Only in so far as we associate Ancient Greece/Rome with high culture, and special effects with low culture. I think that's a biased association, which doesn't give this kind of work the credit it deserves.

[MikeMakesModels]

I'm always in awe of the greek style stuff and the wooden polychromes in my last post - simply because of the materials and techniques used. Modern methods are "better" and the subject matter is stylistically more interesting - but the skillset required to create a perfectly finished figure from solid blocks of wood or marble is something I really admire.

It's an argument pretty similar to 2d digital painting vs. trad painting - both are definitely art, but physical craftsmanship working with and against natural materials has to count for something above a more modern process, which is free-er and more forgiving. I hesitate to say "modern is easier"... but it is - we stopped using canvas soaked in animal glue and started using fibreglass for a reason. :)

[danlucas]

THat was amazing sculpture!

[Serpian]

I love this one: http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/sculptures/9.jpg

But what about Patricia Piccinini?

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/images/yf_lrg_01.jpg

or Thomas Kuebler?

http://www.tskuebler.com/images/myron_klinefelters_revenge.jpg

EDIT: Hmm I'm not sure I like the name Photorealist sculptors.. Photorealism in painting is where you try to make your painting look like it's actually a photograph, can you really do that in a 3D medium? These sculptures are hyperreal (but still caricatured, idealised or what you want to call it), but I don't think they look like, or try to look like photographs...

[BirdBirdBirdX3]

amazing

[gjpetch]

But what about Patricia Piccinini?

Yeah, she rocks too. Patricia didn't actually create her own works in person, Sam Jinks created her figures up until recently. I understand her newer creatures were made by a commercial makeup effects studio.

[alffla]

Wow I'm extremely impressed! I have massive respect for hyper-realists.
Here's bodies you can eat: http://funfever.blogspot.com/2008/01/scary-body-parts-bakery-in-thailand.html

oh i shouldn't have clicked that.