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Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures

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Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.

Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.

Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale.

Photorealistic sculptors create truly amazing sculptures that will make you feel wonder, revulsion and the sense of looking in someone else’s mirror.

In this post we feature sculptors Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane who produce sculpture that seems alive in every detail, right down to veins and rashes on skin. This compilation should give you a cross section of modern photorealistic sculpture.

Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck is one of the premier names in the photorealistic sculpture field. He used some of his talent to create visual effects for the 1986 movie Labyrinth.

After that he opened up a studio to produce visual effects for the advertising industry, which he was successful at for some time. In 1996 he transitioned completely into fine art, devoting all of his time to photorealistic sculpture.

He is best known for faithfully reproducing all aspects of the human body in either a larger or smaller than life scale. His work has been featured in art galleries all over the world, including the Tate in London.

Evan Penny

Age spots, wrinkles, and every detail of a face are featured in the work of Toronto artist Evan Penny.

He generally produces head-and-shoulders busts larger than life size, and implants each hair one strand at a time while creating his sculptures.

Like Mueck, Penny has an extensive background in special effects for film, and his effects have been featured in X-Men and Johnny Mnemonic.

Jamie Salmon

Vancouver sculptor Jamie Salmon uses human hair to help accentuate his photorealistic sculptures.

Together with fellow artist Jackie K. Seo, they form Avatar Sculpture Works. Salmon uses a complex, multi-stage process to create each piece that can take weeks to months to acheive the realistic details that he is known for.

Duane Hanson

Hanson was one of the pioneers of photorealistic sculpture.

After acheiving a Masters of Fine Arts and teaching high school art, he created his first photorealistic sculpture in 1966.

He specialized in horrific tableaus, such as his first work, Hanson’s Abortion, which documented a “backroom” abortion. He started producing more simplistic, single-person sculptures in the 1970’s.

Sam Jinks

Australian sculptor Sam Jinks creates hyperrealistic sculptures from silicone.

He too has been a film and television special effects wizard for 11 years, having spent the last 5 years primarily on his own art. His works feature oddities such as a fox’s head on a man’s body and a man hanging by the armpits on pegs.

He names renaissance artists such as Bosch as his inspiration.

Adam Beane

Beane only began sculpting in 2002 and developed his own material, called CX5, to lend even more detail to his hyperrealistic action figure sculptures.

The material handles like clay when warm, but is as hard as plastic when it is cool. He is known primarily for his posed action figures.

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#1

Soh Tanaka
November 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

Speechless… incredible~

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Paul
November 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Fantastic post!

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JD
November 19th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

WOW!!

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creativeblondes
November 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Ron Mueck is my absolute favorite! SNOECKS (Benelux annual art book) had a really interesting interview with him. I find it very artistic that these artists found a way to kind of ’shock’ people with the most common human body types.

By the way: I like the fact that you post this non-graphicdesign related posts. One of the most important things for graphic designers is to get inspiration from normal-world artworks.

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Walter
November 19th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Yep, that’s the whole idea

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Tonya
November 24th, 2009 at 2:25 am

TO: Creative Blondes

I am sorry, but I disagree with you.
I am a website designer and I must say that ALL graphic designs are also works of art.
Graphic designs are just displayed in a digital form which is what makes it different from other types of art.

Other forms of art such as seen here or even art that is displayed on paper or canvas, etc are not “normal-world artworks” as you put it. Art is art no matter what form it is in.
Every artist is UNIQUE and deserves recognition for their art no matter what form
the art is being displayed in. God is also an artist. Just look at the beautiful world that
He has created and you will soon see that art is literally everywhere and in everything.

-Tonya

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creativeblondes
November 25th, 2009 at 8:47 pm

@Tonya
I totally agree with you. I never said webdesign wasnt art, i just wanted to point out that I like the fact that WDD posts articles that aren’t only webdesign related, but rather also inspiring us with art in the more traditional way of the word. As a graphic designer myself, wheter it’s digital or not, every creative output is art to me. Sometimes things that aren’t even ment as art, are still very capable of inspiring me, and therefore I see them as art too. The difference with design is that design is also focused on usability. I think even code is art, or Code is Poetry (-Wordpress).

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DJ Designer Lab
November 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

My Jaws are still open…

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Indrek
November 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

I’m absolutely speechless how realistic they are. Simply amazing.
Can’t even pick a favorite, they’re all sooo good.

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Tony
November 19th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

Crazy stuff! Love it.

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Nikunj Tamboli
November 19th, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Amazing man how do they do it ?? attaining so much perfections.

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Stoian Kirov
November 19th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

OMG… Incredible

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PrintRadar
November 19th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Wow! This is really stunning! What amazing details..

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Aaron Ortiz
November 19th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Pygmalion would fall in love, and Michelangelo would weep, and then both would get to work. Furiously. A new Pietá or Galatea would be given to the world.

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Melvin José
November 19th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Thats just impossible!
So well done. Must take loads of time. i wouldn’t have the patience.

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dp
November 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

amzing. Duane Hanson was the first to do this stuff FYI.

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jon
November 20th, 2009 at 8:51 am

People have been making realistic statues for thousands of years…

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clippingimages
November 19th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

WoW Awesome sculptures. Unbelievable stuff. Surely speechless. Thanks for sharing this nice post.

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cssah
November 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am

Woooooowww ,Amazing how do they do it ??

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WPConcept
November 20th, 2009 at 12:46 am

Great works. Very realistic.

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PADI IDC
November 20th, 2009 at 1:35 am

Totally Amazing stuff, some of them I couldnt believe were not real people

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z0r
November 20th, 2009 at 5:34 am

They are great but i didn’t like them, they make me unconfortable and a bit scared.

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Jeff
November 20th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

Then they’ve done their job. Art must evoke a reaction or emotion. It isn’t specified which emotion or reaction.

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Abdul Akbar
November 21st, 2009 at 12:09 am

Yah, You are right. Me too.

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dyani
November 20th, 2009 at 6:18 am

amazing!

dunno what to say really!

i’m interested with the action figures.

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Elizabeth Richardson
November 20th, 2009 at 7:04 am

I’ve seen two of these unbelievable sculptures live, in an Art Gallery in Australia – phenomenal – scary – as lifelike as cloning.

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Factopo
November 20th, 2009 at 7:54 am

I’ve seen these pieces before. They’re really disturbing. Why is this art?

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Ken Forst
November 21st, 2009 at 2:10 am

Other disturbing works include Michaelangelo’s “Pieta”, Picasso’s
“Guernica”, innumerable scenes of Christ’s crucifixion from centuries of church art, many WPA posters showing wounded G.I.’s etc., so now you can try to avoid those places that show them. There’s no law that says art has to be pleasant, but you certainly can find plenty of safe stuff (like Thomas Kincaid’s!) if that’s your pleasure.

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Secretsauce
November 21st, 2009 at 2:26 am

Because it’s disturbing.

Sit down and think about what it is that disturbs you. Try to put your finger on it. The more difficult it is, the more it makes you really wonder about why oversized, or partial, or just *slightly* distorted but lifelike humans are “disturbing”, the more it makes you really *think* about why you *feel* things … the more it is art.

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ryanm
November 20th, 2009 at 7:55 am

That’s what we call awwwwwwsome!!!

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insic
November 20th, 2009 at 8:17 am

awesome! cool post

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Simpson
November 20th, 2009 at 8:18 am

Wonderful imagination, creativity and perfect execution. My God most look so real.
Thanks guys.

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Mars
November 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am

fantastic sculpture, err! realistic instinct

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gr8pixel
November 20th, 2009 at 8:31 am

Unbelievable… Just think how much effort and time they put just for one piece of art.. Amazing!

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Davide Di Cillo
November 20th, 2009 at 8:40 am

I had the chance of Mueck and Hanson works in person: amazing!

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Viki
November 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am

is this what we called web design? Why every web design blog has to put some sculptures and artwork post in it? This is nothing to do with web design at all.

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Erica G.M.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am

I’m so f-ing impressed at this! I think one of these awesome sculptures should make faces and offer them to face damage victims so they can go out and wear their faces to feel more included in the world like Carla Nash for example. Thats my high recommend for someone to persuade that with their talent/skill and then they can meet with someone to be able to put technology wiring that you can take off and won’t hurt the skin… that the wiring can work with the muscles but it’s not implanted. (I know what I’m thinking and I am trying to explain it as best as I can on here.

Kudos and many many stars to these artists! Keep it up!

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Kelley Addis
November 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am

It’s amazing to me that now, more than ever, in a world of photoshop and airbrushing, perfection and plastic surgery, a life like representation of average people is considered a beautiful piece of art. BRAVO! I simply love it. I think that this reminds us that everyone is beautiful in their own special way and reflects something about ourselves.

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Free Seo Tools
November 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am

wao…that’s mind blowing…great works

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Kristofer Sandberg
November 20th, 2009 at 11:23 am

Thanks for this one!

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indigo
November 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am

no doubt, this is remarkable. but why so ugly? babies are not that creepy in real life

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Claypusher
November 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am

Actually, a very faithful reproduction of newborn babies, which take a while to turn cute. There are plenty of baby dolls out there in toy stores, these artists are showing an aspect of babies, and other “regular” people that we aren’t used to seeing in mass media.

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Jack
November 29th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

Ditto on the ugly. Opposite of the Greeks. The subjects are uglier than you would expect even from random selection.

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sneet
December 9th, 2009 at 4:21 am

maybe you’re not as creepy in real life either. maybe you’re more creepy. its all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? one man’s recreation is another man’s addiction and too much ketchup ruins the ice cream. i think i made my point, and i await your apology

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Andres
December 9th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Some babies are. I noted that you have a somewhat large nouse.

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Bilal Çınarlı
November 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am

All of them are incredible

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hotmac
November 20th, 2009 at 11:32 am

It is exactly that: WOW! Great collection! Great works!

@Viki: Try to look beyond your own nose. Design is design is design and inspiration comes from different sources. Some of the sculptures are so haunting, that they will influence my perception, my ideas, my inspiration – my websites… Think about it!

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Francesco
November 20th, 2009 at 11:44 am

I don’t get why none of these sculptures is smiling!

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wien
November 20th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

great work, i like the work from Jamie Salmon

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chinna
November 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Amazing….!

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chinna
November 20th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Amazing…………

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Biruk
November 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

JUST AWESOME

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aledesign.it
November 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Amazing… Incredible..some sculptures are real! Fantastic post!!!

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Listoric
November 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Wow, some of them are astonishing and totally livelike. Wow O_O

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kes
November 20th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

Ron Mueck is great. – I’ve seen a few of his sculptures.
nr 8 impressed me very much. – the sculpture is huge and reminds me of gollum

Sam Jinks’ sculptures scares me. – especially no. 5 – There is something disturbing about the babys face. – reminds me of japanese horror movies.

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Wishing Master Mind
November 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Very realistic sculptures,the last one by Sam Jinks is so peaceful,just by looking at it i felt so calm,the last one by Duane Hanson reminds me that a one day i would be sitting alone with an empty bag in my hands comparing my life’s empitness,the sculptures by Jamie Salmon captures the emotions beautifully,the expressions help me understand the feelings of the realization, the pain and finally the calm,the sculptures of Evan Penny and Ron Mueck are also amazing,and i would also like to compliment Adam Beane for his sculptures, they are also good.
All of them are very beautifull and they do reflect the understanding of the artist about the world and the people living in it.
So true, so amazing, so realistic, so deep.

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Wayne Hodkinson
November 20th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

The most amazing thing I have seen for years – WOW

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Bong
November 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

awesome! like human-like droids from the future

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ImpulseDesign
November 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

wooow stunning stuff here,some of them are creepy

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Dave Sparks
November 20th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

They’re amazing but more than a little freaky.

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Mel
November 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm

Pretty amazing…

Should show 3d images of them at the new Leicester Digital Media centre… see http://leicesterdigitalmedia.com as they have some great technology to do 3d displays.

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Ottis Do'Urden
November 20th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

It’s a terrible injustice that these sculptures are reduced to a “photorealistic” label; bypassing the fact that these sculptures resemble life and as life, exist in three dimensions. Hyper- and photo-realistic aren’t exactly interchangable and certainly “photorealistic” has no business in the description of these sculptures. Pull your nose away from a computer monitor and visit a museum in the flesh, expand your mind and your vocabulary. You’ll find little use for “photorealistic” descriptions even amongst two dimensional work by the hands of master artists working from life. It’s like seeing a breast on google images Vs. actually being able to suck on the nipple.

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Ottis Do'Urden
November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

It’s a terrible injustice that these sculptures are reduced to a “photo-realistic” label; bypassing the fact that these sculptures resemble life and as life, exist in three dimensions. Hyper- and photo-realistic aren’t exactly interchangeable and certainly “photo-realistic” has no business in the description of these sculptures. Pull your nose away from a computer monitor and visit a museum in the flesh, expand your mind and your vocabulary. You’ll find little use for “photo-realistic” descriptions even amongst two dimensional work by the hands of master artists working from life. It’s like seeing a breast on Google Images Vs. actually being able to suck on the nipple.

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Ron Merz
November 20th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Wow, I like image 41. I will definitively try this with a picture of me – very cool effect and good inspiration!

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Mary Angelini
November 20th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

O M G!!! Those are effing AWESOME! I cannot believe how realiztic they are and supersized even! Absolutley incredible!!

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BeyondRandom
November 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

Stunning work! The artistic ability of some people just blows my mind

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Øyvind
November 20th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Boring, why not take photos of real people instead?

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jj
November 26th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

your comment is boring.

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gg
December 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Your reply is boring and pointless. Just because someone doesn’t like this particular type of art you have to comment negatively…what an idiot.

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sneet
December 9th, 2009 at 4:27 am

is tearing off a fresh scab boring? why not just let the wound heal? i’ll tell you why. scabs taste better when they are fresh and you get to feel the pain all over again. now pay me!

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bs kishore
November 20th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

Amazing and a bit scary….the perfection acheived is mindblowing !

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Roderick
November 20th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

amazing to capture that depth of emotion. esp Mueck’s woman in the bed with hand on her face

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Walter
November 20th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Hey!
It’s walter from Jeff Dunham http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/sculptures/37.jpg

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BC
November 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm

Like taking a stroll down Market Street!

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grow taller
November 20th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Ok, that’s just awesome. I mean – the people in clothing – i could not, in any way, tell they are sculptures. They look 1:1 like a real person. This is truly godly skill.

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Kelsey
November 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

Oh my gosh! I literally had to stare at those for a while to make sure that they weren’t real. Those are truly amazing, especially the ones that are super large.

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Term
November 20th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Absolutely amazing… Really blew my mind off!

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Grace Quirrel
November 20th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

Nice, but surely Mme Tussaud’s and such places has been doing such things for centuries.

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Webilă
November 20th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Fantastic work from the artists! Thanks for sharing it with us

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Drew
November 20th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Simply amazing!!!!!

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Pixzii
November 20th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

Mind = explode Damn, incredible talent. I love them

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bitburn
November 20th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Creepy freaky but awesome!

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MrLich
November 20th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

What beautiful work! I love the contrast in both colors (skin tones vs. hair colors) and size (reality vs. the sculptures themselves). I love that it makes life seem alien to the viewers.

I think that I’m going to have to do some sketches of the different pieces just to see if I can capture any of the wonderful sense of alien reality that these present!

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Melody
November 20th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

A-mazing. Super impressive line-up.

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William
November 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

There’s help available for these people.

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Comet Arcade
November 20th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Cool and creepy at the same time.

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doa766
November 20th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

amazing, Jamiw Salmon is my fav, the bold guy with the piercing and the guy with the eyes shut are incredible

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creepykirty
November 20th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

I love how the only black person sculpture is a janitor.

Otherwise, totally effing cool!

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emma fox
November 20th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

Great Collection. I found your web site very useful.

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Charles
November 20th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

This proves that robots will look human someday.

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Marcus Wallinger
November 20th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

I saw this artist (Tibi Tibi Neuspiel) on Beautiful/Decay recently who does hyperrealism of thing other than people.

of sandwiches:
http://www.tibitibi.com/tibi%20tibi%20neuspiel%20assassination%20sandwiches.jpg

of toast:
http://www.tibitibi.com/tibi%20tibi%20neuspiel%20the%20free%20spirit.jpg

of poultry:
http://www.tibitibi.com/tibi%20tibi%20neuspiel%20youth%20at%20night.jpg

of the moon:
http://www.tibitibi.com/tibi%20tibi%20neuspiel%20tycho.jpg

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Lea
November 20th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

WOW – incredible! :O
This is art!!

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mikeweed
November 20th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Very creepy. I found myself looking at some of these from behind my hand haha. But incredible. Great work.

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Jay
November 20th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

I was flabbergasted at Hanson’s work which depicts Americans as overweight slobs. A real eye opener. It would be a shame if that’s the image that persists over the centuries.

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Stoney
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:15 am

That’s pretty much the image the rest of the world has of us now – other than emaciated models.

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Agmagryb
November 20th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Where can i see an exhibition of these sculptures?

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jesse
November 20th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

That is just freaking wild!!! and so realistic. thanks for the post…stumbleupon it.

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Justin Ketterer
November 20th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Why spend so much time glorifying the mundane or the downright ugly, in immaculate detail? I prefer art that glorifies the beautiful.

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Claypusher
November 21st, 2009 at 12:30 am

Seeing the beautiful in the mundane, and even the ‘ugly’ is part of what great artists do. There’s plenty glorification and dictation of ‘beautiful’ in advertising. They can have it.

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jamie
November 21st, 2009 at 2:21 am

go prefer your “beautiful” justin…we’ll be just fine without it…

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Tim
November 20th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

I would also thrown in Mark Sijan, he does the art fair circuit, but his work is incredible and stop people in their tracks.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mark%20sijan&w=all&s=int

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Forex Hacked
November 20th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

These are unbelievable. I would love to have one sitting in my house when I have company over. People would be like who is that?

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J. Vowell
November 20th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

The realism is astounding and even disturbing at times. I can’t even image the skill it takes to do something like that.

This makes me think: Past civilizations carved giant statues out of materials at hand, statues of heroes and gods and other various cultural icons. We have learned a lot about past civilizations by excavating and studying such art. In light of that, I can’t help but wonder what excavators and scholars of the future (perhaps thousands of years in the future) will think of us when they uncover some of these things.

“Good grief!” exclaims future excavator, “What kind of gods or heroes did these people have?”

“Apparently,” explains future scholar, “all they had was themselves.”

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Vivek
November 21st, 2009 at 12:02 am

this is AWESOME!!!

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Crissy
November 21st, 2009 at 12:33 am

WOW! That was truly amazing! Love it!

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angie
November 21st, 2009 at 12:51 am

These are really amazing!

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iMark
November 21st, 2009 at 1:25 am

Wow! Those sculptures are amazing. Freaking too.

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Ted
November 21st, 2009 at 1:31 am

Why didn’t you post any Maurizio Catellan’s work?

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Aftab Khalid
November 21st, 2009 at 1:36 am

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat i saw this art first time!!!!

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Aaron
November 21st, 2009 at 2:23 am

“This proves that robots will look human someday.”

Verbatim what I was going to say! This has “Terminator” written all over it.

Reconstructive surgery isn’t even this good usually (unfortunately.) Mind boggling.

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Redstage Magento
November 21st, 2009 at 2:29 am

Simply amazing! These are truly incredible. Thanks for sharing.

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honour chick
November 21st, 2009 at 2:52 am

wow… they all look so realistic, thxs for sharing these amazing pics

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Jim
November 21st, 2009 at 2:57 am

Could you use your fantastic skills to help rebuild people? Then, off to Cyberdyne Systems or the Tyrell Corporation.

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bdog
November 21st, 2009 at 3:07 am

That reminds me, I want a death mask made of me when I go.

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Just George
November 21st, 2009 at 3:47 am

amazing!!! soo amazing! i was almost sad to think there were emotionless!

i believe the only think that gives them away is the eyes. I think no artist had got it right yet

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NewBloggerTemplates
November 21st, 2009 at 7:35 am

This picture is very interesting and very well liked and I hope to take my photo with that statue..

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Mubashir Abbas
November 21st, 2009 at 8:10 am

OMG. This is truly incredible. I must say, the human mind is God’s greatest creation.

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METAL
November 21st, 2009 at 9:40 am

Awesome! I want a robot that looks this real! Nice stuff!

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Upendra
November 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am

superbbb………..

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HBD
November 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am

Eh, I’ve seen better. A for effort though. Good job.

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Greekgoddess
November 21st, 2009 at 12:05 pm

these are incredible. horrendous and wonderful at the same time. It would be great to see some of happy, vibrant, healthy, muscular or beautiful people though, instead of the ones depicted that look downright ill or desperately unhappy.

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Bryan thatcher
November 21st, 2009 at 12:15 pm

I’ve see a few if these in real life, one you feel abut strange looking at them, like staring at a person, two creepy, three, astounding

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jojo
November 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Freak-ay!!! I’ve seen stuff like this at the Wax Museum.

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#106

yanot
November 21st, 2009 at 1:44 pm

awesome works!!!

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#107

Emanuele
November 21st, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Amazing work. Nothing else to say!
Bye,
Emanuele

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Harvey Austin
November 21st, 2009 at 4:20 pm

Thank you. Truly amazing work, both technically and emotionally – extraordinary glimpses into the details of what IS.

Yet art can be more than descriptive… as these… and more than evocative… as these… reaching beyond both to be both creative and inspirational. Art has the possiblity of taking a leading role in the future of mankind… as these do not.

Examples of art as creative, inspirational and visionary may be found at the web site of Jan Praet – http://www.janpraet.com

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#109

wenzhentao
November 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm

I am very surprised in their details, so exquisite and vivid.

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michal
November 21st, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Amazing, I want to check it life.

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Steve
November 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm

Truly incredible and amazing artwork….

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Shivam....
November 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Amazing……These guys are really artist.

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#113

Jay S.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:56 pm

Those are some of the most incredible statues I have ever seen.

Thank you.

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#114

michele
November 21st, 2009 at 11:01 pm

CREEPY.

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Tony
November 21st, 2009 at 11:14 pm

Wow, this is… wow!

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Paul Baines
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 am

I’ve featured Ron Mueck at my blog before, yep amazing work.

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#117

Ionut
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 am

Awesome art !!

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#118

Webanddesigners
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:38 am

Truely amazing

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#119

SLEEPRT
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 am

SPEECHLESS…..EXACTLY!

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#120

fatemeh
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 am

they are great. i love them and congreduate to you…

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hoover
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:02 am

Some amazing work.. you can read an interview with sam jinks here http://www.australianedge.net/2009/11/interview-with-sam-jinks/

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#122

D Miranda
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm

Spectacular! Spectacular!

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#123

kitty
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm

off the chain! very thought-provoking. thanks!

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#124

e cigarette
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 am

Wow. I have never seen anything like this before. I have seen some photorealistic paintings but this is just insanity.

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#125

niftynei
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am

add a few pistons, some wires, an endoskeleton, and a little artificial intelligence….and

viola!

realistic robots.

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#126

cabecaFeita
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 am

Pretty awesome…giants are cool =)

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#127

dave wright
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 am

i love hanson’s sculpture of the cleaning lady.

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EllieJ
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm

It is hard to believe these are sculptures. When you see the larger than life sculptures you see the people standing around viewing them, it is only at this stage you take a step back and think wow, how does they do it. Truly remarkable work.

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liene
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm

incredible

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Isabelle
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm

Wonderful post, just amazing!

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Sanjeev Tiwari
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Truly mind blowing.It shows that there is no limit of what man can do.

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Sanjeev Tiwari
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Truly mind blowing.

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yasamphani
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm

wow..!! awesome. amazing works.

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Doris Fields Isles
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 pm

#128

Totally awesome!! I’ve never seen anything so incrediable. I’d love to have a “small” version of my Dad’s head, who died in 1959 at age 37. I could then remember who I lost and all the good memories we shared during the 11 years I knew him. The more I saw, the more I wanted to see. Thanks for sharing this with us.

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#135

Web Ideas
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 pm

Great collection!

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#136

Jonell Elder
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:57 pm

I was blown away by the talent of all of these artist. The time and patience , it must take to complete any of these pieces especially the ones of Ron Muesks, that are sooooooo huge.

My favs are Duane Hanson.

I live in the Seattle area and hope that an exhibit will come our way.

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#137

Roy Ho
November 24th, 2009 at 1:51 am

Just amazing….Imagine the work the artists put into these sculptures….mind blowing…

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Evan Regene
November 24th, 2009 at 3:33 am

Cool, now they can create for me a cute young woman of my choosing who is anatomically correct that’s not a psycho bitch, with an on/off switch! Ah! what the future holds.
Evan

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#139

Joefrey
November 24th, 2009 at 5:42 am

Wow! really amazing!

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Jay Lynn
November 24th, 2009 at 6:08 am

My god, those are amazing.. and incredibly moving. The truth is sometimes hard to look at. But always enlightening.

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James
November 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Incredible post. I especially enjoyed Ron Mueck’s extra large sculptures. I’d love to see some of these up close and truly see how much detail there is.

Looks like a great exhibition!

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Nicks
November 24th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Fantastic….. difficult to believe that these all are sculptures and not real people. Thanks for sharing.

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#143

Alvaro Hernandorena
November 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

lot of pain in some of them

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Raul Silva
November 24th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

I really think you should add Joe Seigenthaler to the list:

http://www.joeseigenthaler.com/Home.html

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#145

Chris B
November 25th, 2009 at 6:25 am

AMAZING, these are great! i especially love the janitor one, incredibly real looking

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#146

Vijay
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 am

Incredible. These all left me speechless.

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#147

martinpmathew
November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am

I just can’t believe what i saw, i am wonder stuck, awesome!!!

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#148

Surendra
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Hanson, your work is soooooooo….! amazing, i m impressed so much, nice.

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#149

Butch
November 25th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

whoaw.. stunned.

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Ratricia
November 25th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

Truly amazing ! I want to see them up close !!

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#151

Mary
November 26th, 2009 at 6:35 am

Their amazing, but REALLY disturbing… I’m going to have nightmares tonight… The dead babies and the torn apart faces… Urrrgh.

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#152

Siddharth Menon
November 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am

Wow … really nice ones.

I wonder how they achieve that moist skin.

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#153

muhammad ali john
November 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

there are really a peak on art …. it’s beautiful .

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muhammad ali john
November 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

some of em have lot of pain, how amazingly they show it…. truly an artist hands ….

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#155

Web Designer
November 26th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

Woow…I follow your blog and I could say that you never cease to amazed me…they look so real…this deserves a tweet

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#156

saeed
November 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am

wery beautiful

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#157

dodo
November 28th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

woow Can’t believe it

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#158

Vitezslav Valka
November 29th, 2009 at 1:35 am

I was thinking about this in my dreams. Now it happened! Thank you for collecting it!

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Michael
November 29th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Man, Iam speechless, this is awesome! I’ve got some clay here, too but I never tried to model something with it. I think I was a little bit lazy and used ZBrush for modeling

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Zathros
November 29th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

I agree with “just george” th eyes give them away. BUT……These are amazing and I would be humbled to be able to have one of these.
The artists are true artists.

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Ramesh Kennedy
November 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

Thats awesome.

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Hearing Aids
November 30th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

Fascinating, those are some impressively realistic pieces.

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luisa
November 30th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

As I scrolled to each picture of the sculptures I felt a a sense of compassion for each of them. All of them express the frailty of our own emotions.How complex we are, how venerable we all can be can at any given moment. I didn’t want to see them and yet I did, I was scared to admit that I am them. They brought out all my emotions. The art of them is what it pulled out of me.

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Jack
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 am

Er, I don’t think the artist has compassion in mind for at least some of these subjects: e.g., the cleaning woman and the bourgeois tourist. Try contempt and mockery.

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cartucho r4i
December 1st, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Am just speechless they are just awesome. Too too awesome and 100% realistic very creative. I can see the hard work put behind creating something like this. The best one for me is the face closeups.

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Tandil Ajedrez
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 am

wow!! is amazing…!!!!!

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#166

RaDe
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 am

mind-blowing ??? Scaring yeah !

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#167

Talha
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 am

its the uncompromising attention to detail thats speechless,..these guys live for this stuff.INSPIRING STUFF.

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mishka iz lesa
December 5th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

OOO its really fantastic! New! its rewolution art!!!
…madan Tusso?
if boys will have something with fantasy, I can present free idea :next step-giperrealistic sculpture of clothes: shoes,trouses…
better when people notice real pain around and help real people, which need it,then they go to galleries as to zoo,to see on big cold coloring modern photorealistic sculpture
and
I prefer coloring greek sculpture:) they smile,they know
excuse for my englisH:)

Olya from Russia,YstPizdunsk,10 years

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#169

bl4nk
December 6th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

incredible!

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TheBlackHole
December 8th, 2009 at 6:24 am

One of those, the fat guy sitting in a corner giving the camera a dirty look, was on the front cover of DISCOVER Magazine.

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#171

Future Webs
December 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Ron Mueck is produces incredible work, the amount of detail in each sculpture is amazing!

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#172

Pat
December 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

This is absolutely incredible. I can’t imagine the time that it takes to achieve such realism. All of these artists are extremely talented and deserve the attention.

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#173

clara
December 11th, 2009 at 11:03 am

waw!!!!
this man is a crack!!!!!

impressionant!!!!!!!!

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#174

Oscar
December 18th, 2009 at 3:11 am

impresionante, excelente selección. mil gracias por este post.

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#175

Ashok Varma
December 19th, 2009 at 8:50 am

Excellent works by the g8 sculptures…, Very beautiful, creative, inspiring, unique Models.- Ashok Bhupathiraju

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#176

Tyrell Cowam - Represent Your Neighborhood
December 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Unbelievable cant imagine they are not alive

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the Devictimizer 9000
December 27th, 2009 at 9:37 am

first off, i admit the level of detail is incredible down to every last tedious pore. but to be honest i find most of the finished results a little boring. aside from the hyperrealism, there isnt a very exciting artistic expression being made here(i like the one with the giant dude who has a bunch of people staring at him). maybe you have to see it in person to get the full effect. ::shrugs::

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areed
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:01 pm

I am in agreement. Please see my post below (#179.)

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Lars
December 31st, 2009 at 12:55 am

I remember seeing Ron’s work & one of the others years ago ( you really should include a picture of Ron’s ‘Dog/Human mother with pups’ (?)(don’t remember actual title).
I did not realize so many other prolific artists were active as well – thank you.
A thought that came into my mind was – ” how refreshing… this is what the world needs more of – reality”. Then the irony set in – I think that’s also part of the impact of these pieces.

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AReed
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 pm

Clearly a shift in paradigm. Recall ancient Egyptian, Roman & particularly Greek sculptures celebrating not a real human form but rather an idealized form. We now, and with the advent of Pop, celebrate the mundane. Isn’t an heroic scaled sculpture of a bag lady just that? There are socio-political implications.. obviously, commentary on our grossly shallow society perhaps? Think Koons????

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#180

Gopal Prajapati
January 4th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

Surely the lots of bless from god in your mind and hand.
wishes for go into deep and deep to the god of art, which you have already

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#181

scrabblequeen
January 17th, 2010 at 1:12 am

THE “ONLY” AFRICAN AMERICAN Piece was of a MAID…. GeeeeeZ

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Aarn Kato
January 29th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

Awesome!!!! I just can’t believe how realistic is it!

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#183

m65 field jacket
January 31st, 2010 at 10:31 pm

wow at first i thought they were all just fake images, until i saw that they are hyperrealistic sculptures. very nice share

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#184

David Kale
January 31st, 2010 at 10:52 pm

There is no god

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#185

smoking everywhere
February 1st, 2010 at 6:55 pm

WHOA! that is some of the coolest art i have ever seen! that baby is freaking me out!

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