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Dirk Dzimirsky
Dirk Dzimirsky is a German artist born in 1969. He is known for his hyper-realistic drawings and paintings. He uses different lighting sources to evoke a particular mood or feeling for the viewer.
He currently lives and creates his works in a former school building in Warmsen, Germany. His work has been featured in the US, Europe, and Tokyo and has been featured in many private exhibitions.
In 2014, he was asked by a company called waterman-paris through commision to draw a large scale portrait with thier ball point pen to showcase thier new line of luxury pens. Also in 2014, Dzimirsky was hired to draw 4 pictures of some of the main characters for the A&E network's new show "The Returned" used to advertise for the series.
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Denis Peterson
Denis Peterson is an New York native who specializes in painting within the hyperrealsim genre. He is one of the first photorealsists to come out of New York, initiating the start of a ground breaking painting method in his work using airbrushing palymers. His "cropped image" figurative paintings and his life style phone booth series were featured at the photorealists exhibition at the Brooklyn museum, which is the first of many that would showcase his work.
He pioneered a new painting genre, influenced by studying the teachings of literary works on hyperreality by philosipher Jean Baudrillard. He named the movement hyperrealism based on the foundations of photorealism, expanding beyond the physical realistic dipictions of the picture but instead focusing on the subjective qualtiy behind the realistic detail of the painting.
Through Petersons paintings, he challenges viewers to face the social injustices within our world such as poverty, homelessness, and genocide to shed light on the problems within our society through the realistic quality of his paintings and to unveil a layer of vaulnerablity within the state of our country.
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Gregory Thielker
Gregory Thielker is an American hyperrealsim painter that currently resides in France and Switzerland. He graguated from Williams college in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2002 with a BA in Art History with honors and an MFA in paiting at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He has traveled to different parts of the world such as El Salvador, Afghanistan, India, and across the US Mexican boarder.
He tries to capture the feeling or mood he experiences from the landscapes he visits.It takes him weeks to months to capture the essesnce of his phtotgraphs within his paintings, but he tries to convey the emotion he felt while experincing each country.
Thielkers paintings shows his intrerests in his perspective of how the roadways are changed and warped through nature such as rain. He uses rain on the windshield to show how it warps our persepctive on the environment behind the wheel.
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