Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art - Vol 3 No 11
Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art - Vol 3 No 11 Visual Language Magazine featuring Realism, Figurative and Illustrative Art. Cover Artist is Anthony A Gonzalez. Featured are the VL top artists to collect Lisa McKinney, Ray Maines, Denise Bossarte, David Blow and Clayton Gardinier; Visual Language studio visits with Anthony A Gonzalez, Brian Croft, Deran Wright, Doublas B Clark; Barry W. Scharf shares Contemporary Hyperrealism in Art is it real or is it Photoshop; CFAI.co Art Showdown; VL Photographer Roberta McGowen. Visual Language Magazine published through Graphics One Design. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art - Vol 3 No 11 Visual Language Magazine featuring Realism, Figurative and Illustrative Art. Cover Artist is Anthony A Gonzalez. Featured are the VL top artists to collect Lisa McKinney, Ray Maines, Denise Bossarte, David Blow and Clayton Gardinier; Visual Language studio visits with Anthony A Gonzalez, Brian Croft, Deran Wright, Doublas B Clark; Barry W. Scharf shares Contemporary Hyperrealism in Art is it real or is it Photoshop; CFAI.co Art Showdown; VL Photographer Roberta McGowen. Visual Language Magazine published through Graphics One Design. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
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Barry W. Scharf<br />
<strong>Contemporary</strong> Hyperrealism in <strong>Art</strong> is it Real or is it Photoshop<br />
By Barry W. Scharf<br />
I don’t know about others but when I look at hyper-realistic<br />
portraiture or landscape I often think it looks<br />
like a photo-manipulated image. I wonder if the image<br />
was copied from a photo or collaged in some<br />
way. I am aware that we are living in the digital age<br />
and it has had a dramatic influence on the contemporary<br />
arts today. This is not to say that digital imagery<br />
should not be part of art but rather that it be used as<br />
only one of the many tools of an artists studio. Digital<br />
imagery allows the artist a quick experimentation to<br />
work out scale, composition, object placement, and<br />
balancing a color pallet without committing paint to<br />
the canvas. This is economical and helps to reduce<br />
time and cut down on mistakes when applying paint.<br />
Maybe it’s me, but I can tell if something is drawn<br />
from sketching with refining or if something is traced<br />
and filled in. In the drawing one sees the evidence of<br />
artistic inflection and personality, the variation of line<br />
and the slight inaccuracies that mark a skilled hand.<br />
Traced images leave me flat it copies everything like<br />
a snapshot that is holds no artistic interpretation. It is<br />
simply a blink of the eye in reality.<br />
I long for the images that show off the talent, passion<br />
and emotion of the artists. Don’t we all love<br />
the images of the impressionists, the translation of<br />
color, movement of shapes and so on Many 20th<br />
century artists understood this and worked hard on<br />
their drawing skills so they could translate their visual<br />
experiences. Modigliani was an inspiration to me<br />
when it came to painting the figure. I loved the extension<br />
he added to the neck in a portrait and the lack of<br />
pupils in the eyes left it to the viewer to imagine what<br />
was going on. Master painter Edward Reep showed<br />
me how to move a brush so it would define an object…<br />
it’s edge and what it was next to.<br />
Blending in at the Exhibtion by Barry W Scharf<br />
http://barrywscharf.squarespace.com/<br />
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