Huge artistic skills

He's incredibly skilled for sure. However, the devil in me thinks that if it takes that much effort to create a picture that's indistinguishable from a photograph, why not just get a photograph? :D
 
i5aces said:
this,
so much "stuff" is passed as art now its nice to see something like this
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While his skill is undoubted, I would argue that what he is doing barely qualifies as art, if at all. To be art, you must add something. But he isn't: he's (just) producing a technically brilliant reproduction of a photo. As Torquar says, why not just take a photo? Where is his personal style? If another artist started doing the same thing, could you tell the difference between them? It's like those people who do chalk reproductions of famous paintings on the pavement. It's very clever (OK, some are really bad), but it's not art. The original was art, but not the copy, because nothing is new.

He is not an artist, but a very skilled technician.
 
Meridian said:
He is not an artist, but a very skilled technician.
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I'd disagree with that, at least in part. Certainly his reproductions of stock photos could be classed as "Technical" rather that "Artistic" However the study of his nephew and others are from mainly from memory, so you could argue he's created them rather "copied" them, in essence captured something that no one else has seen. In my book, and I suspect many others that counts as art.
 
I went to school with the guy... The weird thing is there was no early idea (ie from when he was doing A levels) that he was going to end up this talented. As far as I knew he was just some student sitting in front of me in business studies that I used to throw tiny bits of pencil erasers in his huge Afro for ***** and giggles.. :o wasn't till after I saw him upload some drawings on Facebook he was some kind of super whizz hacker artist.
 
Isn't it great what the human mind can create when it focuses. I produced a picture of an apple in art class, people thought it was an orange. So sad :(
 
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