Incredibly Photorealistic Paintings By Alyssa Monks

Mar 1, 2010 15 comments

I love photorealism in paintings. We have seen some great woks by Eric Zener, Rob Hefferan, Linda Huber, Steve McGhee, Craig Tracy, and some amazing vector arts by various artists. Alyssa Monks works fall under the same category. Here are some brilliant oil-on-canvas paintings by this New York based artist.

laughing-girl

smirk

filtered

nod

wakeII

weight

wet

welcome-to

candy

chicago

lips

lake-george

morning_after

noise

KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

rabbit-ears

the-race

tug-of-war

Comments

  1. I don't mean to be a dick, but... If you want realism get a camera. Otherwise, stir in some creativity. At least don't make it look like a tweaked Photoshop filter. It's just the world we live in.

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  2. well, I guess everyone's a critic...but that's the internet for ya.

    Great Paintings. I love all the different emotions portrayed in each one!

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  3. These are amazing. and hey, 1st Anonymous, I definitely get what you're saying, but also you can't deny the amount of talent this requires and you have to respect that a little bit considering how much crap "art" there is in the world.

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  4. Im pretty sure the point is that the artist can create beautiful images such as these WITHOUT photoshop...

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  5. there is a subtle difference in a photograph and painting , many can press the shutter button , but not many can recreate the world as good as Alyssa !

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  6. it doesn't take as much talent to press a button as it does to put all of yourself into a painting. you're obviously not an artist.

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  7. i think they're good but why so much nudity?

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  8. There is nudity because the nude form is timeless. It's certainly not offensive and even if it was, that's art - speech.

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  9. I wanna know why those 2 lil kids are watching porn?

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  10. Copying is not the goal of a painting.

    It is interpretation of the given subject matter, putting the uniqueness of how you see and interpret that makes the subject breathe with humanity.

    Skilled in copying, yes. Able see like a camera, yes. Compelling, fascinating, original and original pieces of art. Nope.

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  11. There aren't "goals" to painting. The awesome thing about art and painting is that you can do whatever the hell you want. Why is copying not the goal of painting? What about the Mona Lisa? Pretty sure he copied that from a model. I think these pieces are gorgeous, and took an amazing amount of talent to produce. I bet Gary's paintings suck, if he even paints.

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  12. Jealousy is lousy, enjoy the excellent work.

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  13. i can do this by taking a digital picture from my camera and tweak it in photoshop.

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  14. Everyone say that you can use a camera to do photorealiam but,, point blank you cant do it without using a camera.. just saying.. The artist got more talent than you because youre using a camera and not your talent

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  15. "I don't mean to be a dick, but..."

    People need to stop spouting the same jealous and idiotic hatred towards photorealism. These are all beautiful, creative and intensely original works of art. Personally, they speak to me far more than other works said to be drenched in so called meaning and thought.

    If you honestly can't see how creative these pieces are you have no right nor qualification to be making such accusations.

    A talented photographer can capture many abstract images with their camera and be praised for it, but when a painter decides to capture the essence of reality they are slated. It makes no sense. Think.

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