Video: Ultra-realistic paintings by Peter Maier
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cutting without a knife is sometimes possible for each of us, and regardless of whether you want it or not. It turns out - and that's it. But to photograph this or that object without the presence of a camera or a camera built into a mobile phone is given far for everyone. From an American artist Peter Maier there is such a talent. His ultra-realistic paintings immediately and cannot be distinguished from photographs - they are so … "real". And sometimes even the highest quality photograph of the most eminent photographer cannot compete with them. Peter Mayer received his education in industrial design and visual arts at one of the New York universities, but did not go to work in his specialty. For many years he worked for General Motors as an automotive designer in the departments that assemble Chevrolet, Cadillac, Pontiac and other "hits" of the automotive industry. Probably, this experience explains the artist's passion for detailed images of cars, motorcycles, bicycles.
Having retired, Peter decided to devote himself entirely to painting, and not only as an artist - he also makes the paints with which the maestro's works are made. The author of ultra-realistic paintings uses only his own hand-made egg tempera, the recipes of which have been preserved since the time of medieval painting. Palekh artists, as well as the famous Raphael, Da Vinci, Botticelli, domestic masters Rublev, Ushakov and Dionisy painted with egg tempera.
Peter Mayer prepares his tempera on the basis of water, dry pigment and egg yolk to bind all these components. Such a composition prevents paints from cracking, allows them to dry quickly, and also forms a thin, as if varnished, film on the surface, which gives the impression that the lower layer shines through the upper one, and therefore the paintings look voluminous, shiny, - real. Mayer's paintings are in private collections and in museums of modern painting. You can see some of them in the online gallery Louis K. Meisel Gallery.
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