Art: Children, Animals and Hyperrealism
I thought that we might just take a bit of a break from the intensity of pediatric medical writing and “stop to smell the roses” just a bit. Hope you don’t mind.
I just keep thinking, while I’m immersed in this computer neck deep, that “there’s just got to be something more I can do with it than struggle through medical articles all day.” And, as it turns out, there is: Art.
Hyper-realistic art of Kevin Peterson: “The Funeral”
I ran across a striking image yesterday which I just can’t get out of my mind. Kevin Peterson’s style of art just rings some kind of bell in my head and I was able to find other examples on the internet which he shares with us.
I’ll give you the obligatory “treatment” that publishers demand of artists; although, I usually skip past them as mere “advertising spin” usually done by artists whose work really doesn’t cut it.
The words aren’t what tell me if it’s good or not, it’s the art. I either like it or not and some I really like—a few strike a chord with me like Peterson’s.
“My work is about the varied journeys that we take through life,” explains Peterson in his artist statement. “It’s about growing up and living in a world that is broken. These paintings are about trauma, fear and loneliness and the strength that it takes to survive and thrive. They each contain the contrast of the untainted, young and innocent against a backdrop of a worn, ragged, and defiled world.”
Kevin is represented by Thinkspace Gallery who displays his work at: Kevin Peterson and his Instagram. (via This Isn’t Happiness, Faith is Torment)
Children In Art
The Hyper-realistic art of Kevin Peterson
Henry
Bella
Wish
Indie and Lion
Scrap or Die
Camo II
Finn’s Fox
