Photo-realism is an art movement that astounds and humbles me. The sheer skill and patience it requires to make paintings that are so life-like, so much like a real photograph, is mind blowing. All the paintings you are about to see were drawn, not by a computer, but by the hands of talented artists, able to re-create reality with nothing but brush strokes and an artist's eye. Wonderful. |
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The Visionary Art and Turbulent Life of Caravaggio
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What May Seem Like Ordinary Paper Is Much More to This Man
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This Was One of Elvis Presley's Last Great Performances
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Wow, These 3D Drawings are Out of This World!
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This British Artist Creates Sculptures You Won't Believe
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