Laurie Lipton’s (Macabre) Hyper-Realistic Pencil Drawings
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The Disasters of War - (2003) Size: 45 x 59.5 cm - charcoal and pencil on paper
“My art began as a repository for all my negative emotions. I was a perfect, cute little girl in a perfect, cute little suburb in New York and didn’t know what to do with all the dark, fearful shit that was swirling round in my head. If I hadn’t found an outlet, I would have exploded like a firecracker.” - Laurie Lipton
Inspired by the hyper-realistic paintings of the 15th-Century Flemish masters, Laurie Lipton has developed a unique, decidedly painterly graphic technique using a permanent-point pencil. At first glance her drawings look like photographs, upon further inspection many thousands of distinct, precise, cross-hatched pencil-strokes, build up the rich and monochromatic tones. While working exclusively in black and white (“because those are the colours of memories and phantoms” she says) her unsettling and macabre images resonate a slanted psychological realm where rooms are ghost traps filled with yearning souls, secret fears and disturbing memories……
Love Bite - Charcoal and pencil on paper, 137 x 96 cm, 2002
Click here for more info on the artist Laurie Lipton. You might also be interested to read a Beinart interview with Laurie. Follow the jump to see some more of Lipton’s exquisite mastery.
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February 10th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I can’t get over the depth and skill in every single one of these images. The classic anatomy rendering style is apparent in the best of ways.
Very inspiring work, deep or scary or pretty it doesn’t matter.
Thanks again for keeping us hip to these artists.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hi,
I already had seen the work of the girl with the skeleton, but the first one really surprised me for its quality.
The foreshortening and the field’s depth is quite convincing. The lighting is also well depicted.
Kind regards,
José
February 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Very Very Great!
Orodè
February 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
extraordinary skill with superb black humour
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
this is just amazing…. words fail me
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
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