Italian painter, Marco Grassi who was born in 1966 is so brilliant. His artwork
are so realistic, they appear to be photographs of women. And if we look again, these
portraits have an offbeat element, creating surreal characteristics that
cannot possibly exist in real life. Because Grassi’s incredible skill
in painting allows him to create such hyper-real images, the out of
place component in each painting is our only clue to these being oil
paintings and not photography. Even close
up, we can see the details of each wrinkle, pore and eyelash of every
woman he paints, intensifying the illusion of reality.
surreal hyperrealistic painting by Marco Grassi
