17 Artists Blurring the Line Between Painting and Photography

July 18, 2018 10:52 AM

Guillaume Hebert first merged classical landscapes with photography in his series The Rocks of Taiwan, then The Rocks of Ludao, combining his photographs of seascapes with romantic landscapes. He increased the juxtaposition of the modern foreground with idyllic background in a series titled Updated Landscape, pairing the lighting in his photos with the background paintings from prior centuries. [via Wired] For different takes on merging painting with photography, here's a list of 16 more artists from My Modern Met, and a nod to Painted Land, a film documenting the efforts to track down landscapes painted by Canada's Group of Seven [interview video as trailer].
posted by filthy light thief (3 comments total)

I'm really struck by Mary Iverson's paintings. I tend to draw intersecting draw like that in my head a lot. It's kind of delightful and eerie to see them represented.
posted by treepour at 11:46 AM on July 18, 2018 [1 favorite]

Oh wow, I've never seen those places (in Taiwan) look/feel that way before, like I've stepped into a half-way dream world a la the van Gogh segment in Kurosawa's Dreams. It feels melancholy in a British way, rather than the usual Blade Runner type melancholy that I associate with Taiwan (admittedly my Taiwan home is Taipei), even though the colour palette's closer to Taipei city than the coastal regions where the photos are taken.
posted by womb of things to be and tomb of things that were at 4:56 AM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]

CNN recently ran an article about Kareem Waris Olamilekan, an 11 year old Nigerian artist, who draws and paints extremely realistic / photographic art. This seems like a blurring of painting and photography such that you cannot tell which it is
posted by mcoach at 11:21 AM on July 20, 2018