'Amalgam' by Dirk DzimirskyA painting and a drawing.
Who wouldn't want to be at this level.
Photorealism is all very impressive and i often find myself slack-jawed at the sight of these inconceivably perfect works of art but i need a bit more, a bit of depth, intrigue, meaning and i find that in these talented artists' work.
While Marcos Rey's work has an obvious impact of sex, life, human interaction and fragility, Dirk Dzimirsky's pieces take a while to settle into your system. On first impact they are picture-perfect portraits of unknowns but after a while, because of their muted tone, they become silenced souls, lost creatures. His sickeningly accurate muses' eyes bore into you in a desperate and uncomfortable way, as if asking you, 'why?'.
Marcos Rey, while easier to process, still makes my head spin. For me his work is about fragments, capturing moments that come and go every millisecond of the day but get lost or unseen because they just aren't stimulating enough to make us pause for thought. I like that he takes those moments, he pays attention to them and produces them perfectly so that just maybe you'll sit up and take notice and see just how bloody beautiful things can be.
These guys really are at the top of their game and god love them for it, because even though they make my little artistic heart sink because i'm nowhere near as good, they're something to aspire to and i need all of the aspirations i can get right now.
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