Friday, May 4, 2018

Paint vs. reality


Occasionally and recently, I have posted a couple of pictures converted to pseudo-paintings using online image converters.   ("Clara, artistically" and "Might be like a painting").  These converted images notably lose a lot of resolution.

One of the artists I admire for his treatment of the female form and figure is the late Steve Hanks. Steve didn't lose resolution; his remarkable watercolors looked like oil paintings.  In fact, I actually compared a picture of the slender yet curvy Russian model Ekaterina Zueva to several Steve Hanks paintings in which the subject was in a similar position to Ekaterina's pose. ("Just like art").

Well, Ekaterina has done it again, which is to say her photograph looks like a Steve Hanks painting.  See the examples below and see if you agree with me.

First the photograph:




















Then the paintings:









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