No, they’re not photographs: Astonishing acrylic paintings which are so detailed they look like they were taken on a camera

These are giclees, not paintings! Controversy has been raging about this kind of art for the last few years in Canada!! It's not real art at all. What a shame people like this are ripping off the true artists of the world. And not owning up about their trickery.

- MalMonroe, Sheffield UK, 10/6/2012 18:36

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Absolutely amazing. This is refreshing. Everyone thinks they are a photographer because they have a digital camera, this shows that to be a true artist takes hard work and talent.

- Mrs R, Sacramento, CA, 10/6/2012 18:18

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Now THAT is art. Unbelievably talented.

- Curitiba, London, 10/6/2012 18:18

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these are so beautiful . i wonder if he sells his artwork anywhere ... he is so talented

- pauline, yorkshire, 10/6/2012 17:46

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"Like I said I admire his technical gift (illustration) but there is nothing more to it to offer from an art perspective. - Ian, Bolton, 10/6/2012 14:23 The response here is admiration and pleasure. Art does not always have to 'mean' something, that's just contemporary fashionable thinking which will have had its day like all other trends in the shallow world of modern art. Skill is something the modernist feels quite threatened by, as there tends to be a dearth of it at today's colleges (that's why there are so many art students - the entry requirements don't include the ability to draw). Sometimes the point of a painting is simply to be. Especially if it doesn't require a large portion of verbal diahorrhrea to validate it.

- Nylon, Midlands, 10/6/2012 17:46

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When I was in secondary school there was a Japanese lad in my class that did a pencil drawing similar to these. I remember wondering why he only got an A for his GCSE and not an A*. I got a B and my work was rubbish in comparison!

- helen, north west, 10/6/2012 17:42

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Over Here, USA. Here's a very brief explanation about the slodges and splashes of paint that is modern art. What happened was that once artists had become free from their patrons, either a weathy man or the state or church, they explored different avenues, Monet, Manet, Renoir etc, then around the early part of the 20C they went through various modern types of art, Dada, Cubism, Fauvism etc. Later Post Modernists decided that as painters they should be only exploring color, like a musician explores musical sounds but if he uses 'barnyard noises' etc it becomes kitsch, so too with the painter it should be purely about color hence the splodges. But, there again it can't risk being compared to a childish exercise in making a mess, so it is that the artist's spirit/ energy/feelings are also to be experienced in that creative use of color. Unfortunately those of us with less kultcha are too boorish to see and feel wot the intellectual giants amongst (and above) us experience!

- glen1946, Texas USA, 10/6/2012 17:08

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They are so much like photographs that one wonders why he bothered. It is skilful but rather cold. Illustrations or art?

- Stop The Bus, London, 10/6/2012 16:12

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These are absolutely amazing, If I hadn't known I would have said they were photo's.

- Jennifer, Wirral, 10/6/2012 16:05

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Meaningless. This evokes nothing. No soul. Hang it on your wall and bore people to tears explaining "...really its not a photo!"

- Blind Oracle, los angeles california usa, 10/6/2012 15:27

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