Hyperrealism: oil portraits of women

No, these are not photos. These are the works of the artist Igal Ozery, who paints incredibly realistic portraits of women. His magnificent technique is deservedly admired by the audience.

New York artist Yigal Ozeri (Yigal Ozeri) was born in Israel. There is so much hyperrealism in his style of painting that paintings with the highest level of detail are stunning. You need to look closely at the canvases to believe that the master painstakingly brought them out with a brush, and did not shoot them with a digital camera. Igal Ozeri is best known for his cinematic portraits of young women. His paintings are exhibited all over the world.

Hyperrealism is an art direction that generates a huge amount of controversy. Some sincerely admire the skill of the painters, others wonder why to recreate what can be captured with a camera.

It is impossible to treat the works of Igal Ozeri with indifference, the portraits of women painted by him are too good.

For the last 20 years, Yigal Ozeri has been living and working in New York. His work can be considered a landmark for the development of hyperrealism, since few people managed to achieve such accuracy in the transmission of images. In addition, even after looking closely at the portraits, it is impossible to notice a single stroke, so they look as if they were printed.

Yigal Ozeri enthusiastically draws women: first he photographs them in the bosom of nature, edits images in Photoshop, and then recreates the picture with oil paints. The master draws inspiration from the aesthetics of the pre-Raphaelites, English artists of the 19th century.

His paintings have been repeatedly exhibited in Israel, Europe and the USA. Some have entered the collections of museums, for example, his paintings are kept in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, in the Jewish Museum of New York, in the Dutch Museum of Realistic Art Scheringa.

In 2009, he presented the Desire for Anima collection at the Mike Weiss Gallery in New York. This is a kind of reinterpretation of Carl Jung's concept of the existence of archetypes and the sphere of the unconscious.

Depicting female images, the author tried to comprehend the inner world of his heroines, to catch the thinnest line between youth and maturity.

According to Ozeri, romance and freedom are the two pillars that can resist the world of violence. His paintings are a hymn to beauty, an expressive antithesis of the rudeness of everyday life.