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Most famous hyperrealist artists
- Richard Estes is a street scene painter. Estes’s paintings are reproductions of photographs he takes of urban landscapes. Estes makes all the details by using mirrored objects and reflections.
- Don Eddy is an American painter. He is interested by all forms of mass consumption. He made a serie dedicated to automobiles (bumper section) and focuses on the gloss effects of the car. He painted also a serie which represents some showcases which have reflexion effect.
-Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who realize big photorealistic portraits.
-Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom. Mueck's sculptures reproduces all the details of the human body.
Duane Hanson
BIOGRAPHY
Duane Hanson was born in 1925 in America.
He followed a period teaching high school art, and he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbook Academy in 1951.
Around 1966, Hanson began to make figural casts with fiberglass and vinyl. His early works dealt with physical violence or social issues. At the same period he makes Race Riot in 1969, Accident of motorcycle in1967 and Vietnam Scene in 1969.
In the early 1970s, Hanson abandoned his terror-tactic subjects for a more subtle one. They seem to portray passive, isolated figures as victim of society and negative value. So, he makes Young shopper in 1973, Supermarket lady. These works contained strong social comment.
His characters are full-sized, modals on living modals to take the essentials and the natural of daily life. He transports some daily scene to immortalize them.
TECHNIQUE:
The works are cast from real people, replicated in fiberglass and reinforced with fiber resin. The skin is even painted with realistic veins and blemishes. The clothes come from second hand stores.
POLICEMAN AND RIOTER represents a policeman of national guard who is beating an afro-american.
Duane Hanson makes two versions of this sculpture.
The first version is in a real environment with 7 people.
The 2nde version, Hanson removes the context, the decor except some papers on the ground to replacing the action outside. So, he doesn’t replace the action in the time, place… The scene can take place anywhere in the USA. He removes the scene’s characters to focus on loose action : the policeman strives a defenseless man on the ground.
There are two characters in opposition :
-white policeman, standing and dressed (head and body)
- the other man is on the ground, only dressed in short and have only his hands to defense him. He is vulnerable.
THE SUPERMARKET LADY
The supermarket lady have less violent appearance and shows overconsumption in the USA.
With his work, Hanson said that consumer society deceives the Americans with pretended happiness that consumption and ownership of products provide.
The woman is a vision archetype of an american middle class housewife. We can see some bruise on her arms. She is fat, symbolize excess of food and junk food. Her clothes expose her scruffiness. She is smoking.
The caddy is the perfect object of the consumer society, he is full-brimmed and contains soda, cakes packages, pizza…
