Hyper realism

What is Hyper realism? This is a newborn movement, which create illusions by manipulating the reality. Hyper realism artists try to show reality but far beyond the pure real features of any subjects, for instance a human body in hyper realism artwork is not just as real as a high resolution photos, but it indicates all cultural and social features of the body and all details about their life. The artists of this genre use all colours, contrasts and lights to makes their art works more vivid, then the main difference between this movement and Photo realism is to create a new vivid version of reality by using all details ,while photographer just take some reality that already exist and record it with a high resolution device. We might see this type of art form in drawing, painting, sculpting and nowadays thanks to the technology in digital illustration techniques.

Ron Mueck is one the most famous artist in this genre. He was born in Australia but grow up and live in London. His personality is as mysterious as his sculptures. Attention to the details obsessively and intense internal psychological part of humankind are some of the main features of his art works and they expose our need to validate our humanity even as they thwart our attempts at full disclosure. Mueck first gained international attention with dead man ,a naked,half scale impression of his father shown in “Ensation: young British artists from the Saatchi collection”(1997) at the Royal academy of arts in London. (Sarah Tanguy,2003)

His art works are combination of naturalism, realism, illusionism at the same time standing in the history of figuration. Above all, Mueck is a master at orchestrating tensions that both attract and estrange. His figures invite close-up inspection of blemishes, hairs, veins, and expression, taking you on a psycho-topographical journey. If you stare long and deeply enough, you experience a horrific beauty. Yet the very same verisimilitude creates a weird distance that is as equally penetrating of our current existential state. (Tanguy, 2003)

As an artist I never work on portrait or human body seriously. I mostly concentrate on details of the nature and abstract arts. When we studied about self-portrait, portrait and human body and all idealized and symbolic examples, it recalled me one of the most unique modern sculptor called Ron Mueck who emphasize on humankind in all different aspects, with all visual features in details, the skin, hair, bumps and troughs, wrinkles and vessels to makes the art work more real in the other word Hyper realistic. But the most interesting part of his art works are the internal and psychological aspects. All his art works has their own characters .With all gestures, reactions, fears, calmness, sickness and emotions. Technically he create a new world with all unique characters who might represent someone in the real life or someone from nowhere who has all features of a humankind.