Artist Alyssa Monks always painted women. She started with the self-portraits and then took a detour to paint family members. Her bathing beauties evolve directly from photographs while she intentionally adds a lot of invention to them in her paintings.
It seems like water is the overall theme to them and Alyssa says that the water thing kind of found her, and she evolved into it. She has a memory of painting when she was 14 or 15 years old and found an image of water, but it was too hard to paint. So, it was a personal milestone to paint water. She loves the way water plays with the flesh; how it added distortion and abstraction, how it could create new texture. So she decided I was using water as a filter. Creating a filter really spoke to her as a way to draw the viewer in. Putting a barrier in between the viewer and the subject invites the viewer to work a little harder.
All images © Alyssa Monks
Oct 23, 2012 · 16:18
Can't believe these are paintings.
Amazing.
Thank you for sharing!
Oct 23, 2012 · 17:03
wundervolle Stimmung ..
schön zu sehen wie viele Fassetten das Thema Wasser hat...
Oct 24, 2012 · 22:40
Ignant and all people espeacially the "german" academies should learn that hypernaturalistic drawings paintings are not art !
It's a nice craftsmanship , which is utterly useless since the invention of the camera !
Want to draw something like that ? Take a picture !
Oct 24, 2012 · 23:38
fuck you sen!
Oct 25, 2012 · 04:44
These are GREAT!
Oct 25, 2012 · 10:53
@Sen: Biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard but thank you!
Oct 25, 2012 · 13:05
Sen: that noise you heard earlier? That was the point sailing by a few miles off, I think you missed it.
Oct 25, 2012 · 14:52
Craftsmanship is brilliant, however I'm sure if she just looks deeper at the emotional side and paints more abstractedly, it would have a deeper impact. I know I sound like a pillock, and all arty farty but look at picasso's demoiselles d'avignon and the shock of the classical poses of the central figures as opposed to the primitive mask like faces of the other figures. Please don't take this as criticism, your obviously a talented artist , just experiment a bit more. Thanks
Oct 25, 2012 · 15:05
@ Sen you are right but dont be so radical and exreme !paintings,drawings which recreate object landscapes people = natural things 1 to 1 is just considered a good craftsmanship. A plummer or a electric engineer is not considered an artist because he is good at the things he does isnt an artist or is he ?
Art goes much deeper and does not solely try to recreate nature. In this case it is even a recreation of an recreation , which makes it even less art.
Find it really sad that to many people mistake such things for great works when there are greater art pieces out there.
Oct 25, 2012 · 15:16
hey vishakha sen :P
its alright people i know her she just hasnt had her meds today so chill she loves art too but she is a lil critical so ill take care of her and nice art i like it :) cya got a friend to contain :P
Oct 25, 2012 · 15:39
Hot Land :P
Oct 25, 2012 · 15:39
It's Hot Land :P
Oct 27, 2012 · 01:22
Great skill. Art, no. The art process ended after taking the picture. There is nothing in the painting that a photograph could not convey. And i echo what a previous post said, only the less informed will find this a great artwork.
Oct 27, 2012 · 12:16
Definitions are mere expressions of orthodoxy at any point in time. This applies to definitions of what constitute art. Instead of trying to fit an artist into our own strict conceptual standards, just enjoy her creativity and 'craft'.
Oct 27, 2012 · 15:46
I agree with Sen, hyperrealism is just practice, nothing more...
Oct 28, 2012 · 14:43
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