Artists do photo-realism with strokes of a brush. Swedish artist Linnea Strid considers the photo-realistic style as her medium of expression and it certainly shows. In this post we take a look at her fascination with water and its, erm, watery qualities. But it’s not all skin-deep as Strids mentions in an interview with My Modern Metropolis:
Art can be viewed in different ways, and one person can look at a piece that I’ve made and just think “oh, that’s a pretty picture, it’s very well done”. I don’t judge people who can’t spot anything more in my work than that, and it’s ok. But after a first glance you can also come to the conclusion that a painting like “Rinse and exhale” can tell you some sort of alternative story, like why is she taking a shower with her clothes on? And the water running on her face, is it only water or are they tears? I don’t want to be too obvious when I make a painting, I want the viewer to decide what it means and what the painting is telling them.
Find some of Strid’s impressive photo-realistic oil paintings after the jump.
Solutions and decisions
Once I could see the universe in a puddle of water
A certain taste of life
Deformed
Tear me apart
Face me
Focus
Zero (when I’m alone I cease to exist)
Cry you a river
The drowning artist II
See more of Strid’s artwork on Flickr.
[via Photojojo | My Modern Metropolis]