Video: Tim O'Brien and his historical photorealism
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New York artist Tim O'Brien lives in Brooklyn and photographs history. True, he photographs her with paints and on canvas, but the realism of the paintings is simply amazing. Of course, there are enough other photorealistic paintings in the artist's archive, but its historical part is the most remarkable.
In fact, Tim is an illustrator by training, worked for a long time as a portrait painter, but his love for history and photography eventually took its toll. No, Tim did not refuse portraits, they just became somewhat different.
In the collection of historical portraits by Tim O'Brien, there are works dedicated to both American and Slavic figures. But on a special account are the images of Boris Yeltsin in bearskin and Slobodan Milosevic, squeezing blood from the flag.
For his exceptional talent and extraordinary historical portraits, Tim O'Brien has received many awards, in particular, recognition of the New York and Los Angeles Society of Artists and Illustrators, his paintings have been repeatedly published by famous American newspapers and magazines such as The Times and " Communication Arts Magazine ". And recently his name was included in the official publication "The Illustrator in America, 1880-2000".
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