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I came across these and couln’t believe they were paintings!

“Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution photograph. Hyperreal paintings and sculptures are not strict interpretations of photographs, nor are they literal illustrations of a particular scene or subject. Instead, they utilize additional, often subtle, pictorial elements to create the illusion of reality. We present below sample work from some of the best hyper-realist painters out there.”

Roberto Bernardi:

Eric Christensen

His work isn’t as good as the previous, but it’s still amazing.

Pedro Campos

Unbelieveable.

When I first came across her work, I didn’t know what to make of it.

It seemed like a big waste of time.

Surely this would take forever, your whole life infact! And just for this one barrel!

Looks kinda cool, but slightly pointless?

But then I saw that she had made other stuff.

And I actually liked some of it.

They look pretty and very feminin.

This is my favourite piece:

I can now appreciate the time and effort Lane must have put into sculpting all of these. It looks like patterened net material. Quite lovely.

The Piano Stairs.

The world’s deepest bin.

There are loads more of these videos at www.thefuntheory.com, they are sponsored by Volkswagen, and use these ideas for some pretty imaginative advertisements.