As painters, artists, and lovers of art, we all know the names of the most talented and best artists of all time.

Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer are just some of the greatest painters of all time. All the living painters and artists regard them as their role models in their craft.

And it shows. Their works have clearly been influenced by the greats’ style, passion, and dedication to the craft.

These new artists though focus on hyperrealism to expose the flaws and problems in today’s society. And these painters need to be recognized for their talent, their desire to share their message and to inspire a brand new generation of artists.

Would you like to meet some of them?

Robin Eley

Robin Eley is a London-born, Australia-raised, and US-educated painter, who has made a name for himself in the art world since 2010. He is a genius in hyperrealism and his paintings are often mistaken for photographs wrapped with plastic or torn up.

But when the audience takes a closer look, they discover Robin Eley painted all that illusion. Truly unbelievable.

Robert Bernardi

Roberto Bernardi dedicated himself to Renaissance painting and pictorial technique. He carefully, accurately, and perfectly translates a photographic image onto a canvas using oil painting. His works are perfectly realistic.

Diego Fazio

Diego Fazio is a self-taught artist from Italy. He started out as a tattoo artist but soon realized that he wanted to draw the bodies instead of drawing on them. Through his hyperrealist paintings, he wanted to show the faces that screamed with the despair and anger of present-day society.

Gottfried Helnwein

An Austrian-Irish visual artist, Gottfried Helnwein is known for his unbelievably realistic depictions of disturbing subjects of the human condition. His works have been featured all over the world in Austria, England, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and the US.

Omar Ortiz

Omar Ortiz is a visionary artist from Mexico. He studied graphic design in school but soon learned that painting was his true calling. He trained in oil painting under artist Carmen Alarcón. His works are minimalist and hyperrealistic.

“Since I started painting I have always tried to represent things as real as I can… I enjoy the challenge of reproducing skin tones and its nuances under natural light, particularly in bright conditions. I like simplicity in my pieces since I believe that excesses make us [poorer] rather than rich,” Omar Ortiz described his works.

Bryan Drury

Bryan Drury, an American artist, produces extremely realistic paintings of people “that registers pores, wrinkles, and grainy skin textures as well as hair, jewelry, fabric, and glassy eyes so exactingly that you might suspect a high-resolution photographic under layer.” He uses oil paint to expose the flaws and not flattery.

Taner Cylan

Born and based in Istanbul, painter Taner Cylan has been producing hyperrealistic paintings since 1990 using acrylic paint.

American curator Dan Cameron said his paintings “bespeak absolute technical mastery and precision, but which are also freighted with an emotional and sexual dimension usually absent from the genre.”

Yigal Ozeri

Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli artist based in the US and is best known for his photorealistic renderings of young women amidst natural settings, such as rainforests and deserts. To make his paintings look as perfect as reality, he takes digital photos of them and prints them out to use as a reference for his paintings. His works are hard to distinguish from real photographs.

Matthew Cornell

“There are no humans present in Cornell’s paintings, because he regards a world in which nature rules as an ideal one,” says Brightside.

What do you think of these hyperrealist artists and their works? It’s unbelievable how much talent has evolved in the art world.

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