Plattypus
2/22/09
Painting Critique 1
“Tica” by Dru Blair
This image of a wonderful woman on her wedding day looks absolutely astounding. Her facial expression, her dress, her hair all dolled up to a realistic interpretation of a woman on her wedding day. Astoundingly, this is a painting, not a photo. The lighting used in this image is very realistic to a photograph, but she is truly a painting.
(Break)
Photorealism is the art of transposing a photograph into a painting. As seen from the image, it is a painstaking process who took this artist roughly 70 hours to complete. While this image is beautiful, what defines it as real? It is an image of a woman, who was real, and who was modeling a wedding dress, and had a real photograph taken, and that photograph was replicated into a painting with very minor differences. Is this image still true to reality? The image was altered and being such, it is not “real”. Also, the idea of having a field is not real. This woman was not just free floating in space. This image is a near exact interpretation of a real woman, but it is not the same. Being as this is a copy of a copy, is it real? It is very close to the original “doner” of the image, but it is not the same.
