If realism made you speechless, wait until you encounter hyperrealism. It is a genre of painting and sculpting involving an intricate resemblance of a high resolution photograph. The themes and subjects of most hyperrealistic paintings are portraits, still lifes, landscapes and narrative scenes. The term hyperrealism is primarily coined with an independent art movement and art style that has developed since the early 2000s in the US and Europe.
One amazingly talented hyperrealist is Madrid based painter Pedro Campos. Most of his subjects like Coke cans, glass bottles and jars, and fruits wrapped in plastic sheets are painted with exact pictorial details. Huffington Post describes his work as having “an aura of glossy, and sanctified perfection about them”.
Pedro Campos working an a piece. | Source
Like any other artist, Campos grew his talent at a young age by working on different creative projects like decorating restaurants and as an illustrator in different creative agencies. He studied art restoration in Madrid and began focusing on oil painting at the age of 30. All of his works are truly etraordinary, lets take a closer look at some of them below and be blown away by the precision of each piece.
oil on canvas 195 x 97 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 162 x 114 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 162 x 97 cm (c) Pedro Campos
oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm (c) Pedro Campos
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Pedro Campos and his artworks are represented by
Plus One Gallery, London. Check out his official
website for more of his hyperrealistic paintings.
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