Hyper-Realistic Art by Leng Jun: Masterpiece or Overkill?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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There is nothing overkill about creating something that leaves people in awe. The downside to this particular art is there is no signature style distinguishing his work. The second you see it is the second you know the artist. A Da Vinci is unmistakable. A Michelangelo is unmistakable. Upon first glance, there is no mistaking a Monet, a Goya, a Rembrandt, or a Van Gogh. The only thing that distinguishes his work is knowing that you're not looking at a photograph. Once you have that knowledge, then the incredible attention to detail leads you to knowing that you're looking at a Leng Jun masterpiece.
Yes! But it isn’t art.
The technical illustrator is a “horse-and-buggy” “recording” of a human face, instead of a Maserati photographer. What’s the difference? SLOW. FAST.
The artists Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent Van Gogh, Romare Bearden, Michelangelo or Paul Gauguin are more than their signature styles, it’s that they evoke our imagination and interest years, decades and centuries later.
This might as well hang in a dermatologist’s office as a poster advertising skin care. That’s how NOT fascinating THIS hyper-realistic piece is. HOWEVER, hyper-realism can be art depending on IF the COMPOSITION is made to evoke our imagination and interest.
Some of Salvador Dali's paintings are very realistic. But you know it is a painting and not a photograph. True, Leng's skill is quite exceptional. But it looks like a photograph.
@@sharongillespNo this isn't art, really, but a banana stuck on the wall with adhesive type is.
This man is probably as good, if not better than the best! He is a TRUE MASTER CLASS! WOW! Just WOW!! and BRAVO!
Yes! But it isn’t art.
The artist is a “horse-and-buggy” illustrator of a human face, instead of a Maserati photographer.
It doesn’t look like a Polaroid. His work is deep.
A painter who could paint the smallest details perfectly is also a patient, persistent and motivated artist. I'm a painter myself and fulfilling self contentment in my work is the key to create a great outcome. The paintings featured for sure took many hours, even days or weeks.
A painter is not an artist as any HOUSE PAINTER will tell you.
This is art at the highest level, he says it with his paint, needs no further explanation, no flashy, shocking ideas, painting what you see and want to show. Many can learn something from it, especially the art of painting.
It’s ok
@@zheliak6536 This is not Art at all!!
who are you to decide that?@@renelevaillant6601
@@renelevaillant6601 lol, then what is it?
It’s masterful art but as an animator, I would get bored of spending so much time on one image.
Mind-blowing realism. Simply the master touch of the masters.
To the people who kept saying "just take a picture" that's not the point!
Some people actually enjoys the process.
The process is an art form all in itself.
It's like saying to a cook that "it's easier to just buy a take out" some people happen to enjoy cooking no matter how inconvenient it all is, how many steps it took, or how much dishes we have to do after.
It can be therapeutic to some people.
Personally realisms just isn't one I enjoy but even I can appreciate the artists and the hard work got into each paintings.
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There's no coincidence this painting is called 'Mona Lisa - About Smile Design'.
Da Vinci used a specific painting technique on his Mona Lisa, making his brush strokes invisible.
He was aiming for a naturalistic look that was new for his time.
Leng Jun has simply taken this approach to a new level.
And what a level! Wow!
@@andiemorgan961 ma l' Arte non è chirurgia, l' Arte viene dall' animo,se c'è.... altrimenti è solo bravura tecnica e niente altro
They could reach in the photo and smell the air its so realistically beautiful ❤❤❤ the skill it takes is a true talent
This is beyond amazing skill level and dedication, But I myself prefer paintings that look like paintings i love seeing brush work and shapes it has more life and energy and is more appealing to my eye.
yea .. it like all the game graphics doest make the game better ..sometimes it makes it worse
Highly skilled copying and nothing more, devoid of imagination.
@@renelevaillant6601This is still very impressive. Most people can’t do this. I don’t know why are people undermining realism.
@@renelevaillant6601bro is more creative than you and everyone in your family ever
Bro you got no taste
I think his work is genius. It is amazing and mesmerizing.
His skill is out of this world! One in a million really!😮😮😮
Those who can do those who can’t wishes and criticize. That’s the difference between someone who is good and someone who is great. Who has the patience,will, and talent or ability to achieve the impossible marks a true master of his craft a chosen few can or ever hope to reach 👏👏👍
YOU CAN SEE THE FUZZ ON THAT SWEATER!! I need to spend more time painting....seriously, More time.
A photographer "captures;"the image like a downfall and a bird, this guy creates the downfall and the bird.....Bravo !!
There is just a touch of ‘this is a painting.’ Just enough. Beautiful. The green sweater made me thing of the fancy dress in old master paintings. Amazing!
In the words of Oliver, "Please sir, may I have some more." I can only respond in adjectives-awesome, painfully humbling, dumb-struck, amazing. I can not stop staring in disbelief . So yes. more please...
This represents a rare and impressive degree of talent. Most hyper realistic artists use projectors, and I don't know if this artist does or not, but his skill and sensitivity in the rendering or the paint clearly go well beyond that.
Nobody uses projectors lmao. Realists use either photo references or still life items and models
@@josecat436 Yes, they do. But the projection is just a base from which to work from, Without knowledge and talent, even with the projection, it'll be unremarkable.
@@XofHope You got no idea what you’re talking about. This guy is saying they use projector machines which is a lie.
@@josecat436 sigh Go check some channels of realism painters here on yt and the bigger ones, the actually well renowned ones, will freely admit they use projectors to make their work easier. It's the kids, the beginners, the amateurs, who either don't use them because they were (wrongly) convinced it's cheating or they do but don't admit it.
As a scientific illustrator the very first thing I was told was that there's no such thing as cheating. We use projectors, photocopies, light boxes, tracing, and everything else that saves us time. And you can use all of those things and without said knowledge and talent you'll still get a mediocre piece. They're auxiliares, not cheating.
@@josecat436 Btw, the projections are an easy way to scale up a photo straight to the canvas. Much easier than using a grid, tracing from an enlarged photocopy, or similar methods.
His art not only makes us question reality in "machine vs man made", but also makes us recall that everything that we see on the picture has a long story of human time, from being born, to grow, to take care of our body, to the time invested many many years ago when embroidery, fabric, coloring, the collecting and preparing of cotton was all a human only craft, the act of brushing the hair and everything else that is behind that seeminly "lifeless" photography. This also makes me realize the main difference in photography and painting, and the appel of hyper realism: photography will never make me spend hours looking at it's details. With photography, if we pay much attention, we might think only into about the subject: if it's someone crying, we will feel their paint, if it's a great composition, we might think about them choosing the location, but with painting, above all that, we will think about the mastery, the precision, the choices the artist made to achieve that final desicion. Amazing, truly a master!
Photographs look very different to our own observation. Just take a picture with an ipad and hold it next to the live subject. The photo doesn't look anything like the subject.
Why is it that the art world says its only art when its the style that they accept. Its almost comical sometimes. I guess the art world gets VERY INSECURE when its something everyone enjoys and can understand. Its like if that happens in art, theres no need for their snobbery!! This man does beautiful work and is just as talented as your favorite artist!
He’s a brilliant technician. absolutely brilliant. There’s not a trace of what we in the west call art there…. Maybe this is a Chinese thing
@alexanderingram2813 no, a lot of Americans like realistic art well. Maybe your circle thinks it's not art, but a lot of people do
I agree
The amazing aspect is how does he mix the correct color palletes to use and where to correctly point it.
This is truly NEXT LEVEL art.
I'm extremely dumbfounded at the paintings by Leng Jun.
The minute details are simply amazing, especially the lady wearing the green blouse at 10:48.
Every strands of her hair, her blouse borders are painted by him.
Does anyone know , what is the average time Leng Jun have to spend, to produce such a portrait ? 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
I can take 2 months doing a realistic painting but I can't and do not want to make hyperrealism. Yet I admire his skill. There has to be something about myself that I leave on the canvas. I discover something, an example might be how I colour the eyes. They are not realism but they express something unique. Each to his own. At times I use more wild colours. I enjoy that.
Very few will see your point, but it is well made.People aren't seeing your art; they are seeing you.
Modern day master.If you criticise this art your jealous.
It is the question of realistic or
thought image.
Photography can be an impressionist
work, meticulous painting of course
a photograph like.
While I can certainly respect the dedication, there is no life at all in that, nothing exciting or interesting, just a faithful photographic painting. What is the vision? Is there one? Is there a point to the painting? A message? What is the painting trying to convey other than technical proficiency?
No vision, no imagination, mechanical and soulless.
Totally agree. When you look at a painting by artist like Van Gogh’s, you can feel his pulse and his emotions while reacting to what he was painting. When you look at this artist’s painting, you get the feeling that you are walking through the valley of death.
First, I am not an artist. My question is, do you consider photography an art? Would a portrait of a person is nothing exciting or interesting?
@@boodeehaha1751 I do consider photography to be art because it not only has the technical parts (aperture, shutter speed, lenses, etc), but also artistic ones such as angles, lighting, composition. I don't think there's anything wrong in using photography in painting, the problem is to simply try to copy it entirely.
@@fabrizio483 IMHO, what you have described as photography as art applied to those portraits LJ has done. First, he didn't copy his painting from a photograph. 2nd, he interpreted the existing lighting and where he stood (contrast, light, angles, aperture etc) and put that into painting. I do agree though the painting is a bit flat, probably because of existing light and his style of hyperrealism takes into account all the details rather than play with shadows
the narrator's script is crazy with similes. The painter is amazing, but I definitely got distracted by the script's non-stop crazy similes.
What crazy is it's not "hyper" realistic with respects to painting what's EXACTLY there. You can see small spots of detail that implies brush stroke, which itself is typical of oil painting. So really, it's as realistic as oil painting can get.
realistic and hyper realistic paintings are the most difficult to make, need great craftsmanship
Phenomenal and inspirational.
Your comments and similes are pretty surrealistic themselves; thanks for the laugh…and for Leung Jun. 🙏🏼
The artwork and commentary are compatibly mesmerizing.
This is refinement. Art can be very refined. Accomplished. I think people with skill and accomplishment are the shoulders of giants that others come to stand on. Without this others wouldn’t know where they stood moving forward regarding a particular study.👨🎓♾️💡
Incroyable talent de portraitriste avec une patience et une précision extraordinaires!
Just imagine Leonardo DaVinci's reaction to Leng Jun's Mona Lisa painting or that last one! One thing is certain, Leonardo will know that it is the work of a master and will be in awe.
It's art, it's beautiful, and it's brilliant. Anyone who says otherwise...well, they're entitled to their opinion - they're just wrong, lol
I wonder what his work would look like a with a bit of narrative to it. His skills are beyond amazing.
Hyper-realism is simply an artist's attempt at nailing down an image the best he or she possibly can. It should be applauded because it is very, very difficult to be that precise. No matter what anyone says, a painting is a painting and it is very subjective, because everyone has their own idea on perfection. As Dali said, "If you're going for perfection, forget it. You will never achieve it." Has Leng Jun proved him wrong, absolutely not, because nothing painted by hand will ever be perfect.
beautiful work
Amazing!
Absolutely amazing! I just can't help but wonder if he can make a good living from this, because he must take forever to finish a single piece.
amazing!
Masters 👍💗💗
Real and objective can be like being truthful. It's often unwanted, disliked, and hurtful. Beauty subjective relativities is like truth.
amazing
Very nice!
MASTERPIECE✨️👌♥️. As a painter, it is very hard to bring any portrait to life. Does a mastetpiece require a certain narrative of perceptions ❓️❓️❓️ ToomCapeTown❤
i have been followin his youtube for awhile and enjoy watching his process! Its incredible and Ill be shocked if he lives past 50 because these types of painting takes such intensity and deducation that often wears down on the mind and body. a lot of Chinese artists are super intense but I cant help wondering what their regimen is. With that said, I do find them boring... it does warrant my admiration but not really my interest. i imagine its like how people grew to like impressionism and surrealism despite what art snobs said, because they were imaginitive breaths of fresh air from the norm that made the audience feel a wider range of emotions, like nostalgia, wonder, etc.
Incredible amazing Artwork 👌
I think paint from imagination is better than hyper realistic painting. Like abstract painting is the most beautiful style of art in my opinion.
Do we admire the painting or the process?
both should be admired
@@016Jackal you probably sensed that I am not the biggest fan of hyper realism
I don't know. I don't really prefer hyper realism. It feels odd. Yes he's extremely dedicated and his skills are beyond magnificent. I'm speechless. But I still don't prefer this. I know no one will agree and please don't argue with my comment. It's just a feeling inside. I'm not negative about any of this video. I'm mind blown. I'm speechless. But I don't think art should be hyper realistic. I think it always should be creative and it'll have flaws and mistakes and it'll have so many meanings. That's how I feel about creative works.
Its amazing,but its like he is tryin to compete the digital photo camera.I would never put painting like this on the wall.
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How many times can you paraphrase the same thing over and over?
Of course these are masterpieces but the question is if they sort of lost something of the expression/soul that is why we also love to see the imperfection in many works of art. However that is not fair and I see the value of this video as well as his works.
Estas pinturas constituyen una obra de arte tan ,tan real magnifucamente realizadas hasta en los minimos detalles a tal extremo,con respeto que cuadran en ser chocantes gracias por la publicacion amo el arte pero con yodo respeto es mi parecer LR.
amazing!!! thank you
I really respect "all werks of art . I am very sensitive ( in literatur ,literary works ) I also enjoy Energy activities. I care about science and technology . I also enjoy motivational world .May like God gave me there Shoot of life a solid relationship toe the work of God the Father, Lord Jesus Christ and fantasize and evolve Energy with the work of Holy Spirit Fire .
Just , wow.
Wow! Amazing. How thin should be the bush to be to paint single strands of hairs with it?
If you want a reproduction of reality, take a fricking picture; if you want an impression or interpretation of reality, paint it.
That is absolutely correct; this dull work impresses the ignorant.
Hologram
@renelevaillant6601 you guys MUST be very insecure, to have that attitude. Like the art world, you must put it down to lift your knowledge up. Lol, like only you know art. It's comical and the art world needs psychiatric help to get over theirselves.
@@Benwtradarchery Well, Ben old sport, not sure if you included me in 'you guys,' but if you did, I'm not insecure and because I'm graduate-school educated, I don't need to lift my knowledge. And if anyone needs psychiatric help, it's you. You also should learn how to write a coherent sentence and not use theirselves, which isn't a word. You are an insecure and fearful person who projects onto others that which you fear about yourself.
An introduction to the simile.
This is art .
I think this is over kill.
A painting should look like a painting not a photograph.
yeah the art is gone his paintings literally look like photos
You’re wrong, his painting looks like the pinnacle of painting! The standard, 10 out of 10, like he said, there’s a big difference between his paintings and the soulless, micro zoomed in painting that is always something like the skin of a human or the eye. Leng June’s painting are different and full of life!
@@angelmakima The pinnacle of painting is the liberation of the imagination, not slavery.
@@angelmakima you are also wrong.
Skill and art have their own places.
I agree his skill is of highest level
@@angelmakima you are also wrong.
Skill and art have their own places.
I agree his skill is of highest level
Very nice work. It carrys on the long standing tradition of Chuck Close and others in the 1980s (over 40 years ago) and earlier.
I think the rapid advance and pervasive growth of media in the 20th Century increased the knowledge of what other artists around the world are doing.. In 2024 there about 10 times the global population - yes, the population was under 1 billion for most of history.
The forms of art that could continue producing physical objects have benefitted the most, from the spread of Capitalism and the marketing forces of "curators". Visual artists competing by hand and eye work, with the mechanism and technology of cameras and optics is a long tradition. Read up on the history of Camera Lucida and Camera Obscura - dating back to days of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Albrecht Durer and Johannes Vermeer. David Hockney has an excellent book on the subject.
Can you believe it? People born before 1990 actually produced our society! Who'd a thunk it?
Realism is just another form of art, like ‘abstract’ is. There’s no need to morally destroy people that choose to paint realistically.
Very interesting. But who wrote the dialogue?! A 13 year old..?
No i see it more as a flex.
A good flex 😊
I mean let's be real if someone
Said "wow nice pictures " and you say "thanks i painted it" and the shocked look on their face
In confusion saying " YOU PAINTED IT!?!" Is very satisfying 😊
Especially if they just knows you as the artist that Draws Manga, American Comic book style and erotic art.
Hyper realism is kinda a flex.
Ah, but it is a photograph of a painting.
Whilst a great measure of ability to copy a photograph, I fail to see the point of reproducing artwork that is indistinguishable from the photograph it was copied from and basically a hand made print?
Did you even watch the video? He paints these from LIFE, which is an exponential level of difficulty that borders on the absurd
Your opinion is not uncommon, and artists have no need to defend their intentions. However, to me the point is to push the boundaries of the medium, as well as the human eye for proportion and perspective while mastering color and light theory to create this 3d illusion on a 2d canvas, just as the old masters have done. I truly believe you will change your mind if you see the paintings in person.
I’ll give you a simile that might be exaggerated, but you’ll get the point
A lady can get pregnant in a lab, then why all the headaches of romance marriage and love making?
He already said the difference is between eating in a Michelin Starred restaurant vs consuming in Domino.
I didn’t know what else to get you understand
@dpaul3858 we have artificial womb. You still need men for the fluid. Instead of bashing men. Think.
@@iAmNothingness DID YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT?
Read the context of the answer. I said The Difference of photography and hyper-realistic drawing is, the difference between artificial insemination vs romance and all.
Is it bashing or appreciation? Get some clue before turning against people on your own side bro.
JUST WOW
Awesome content, thanks+
Hyper-Realistic has been known for a long time. This is nothing new.
Beautiful
3:14pm 9/4/24 💯
This is an EXCELLENT EXAMPLE of technical skills BUT this is not art.
Using artist’s tools doesn’t make it art.
Being patient and observant DOESN’T MAKE IT ART.
Painting “marks” on a canvas doesn’t make it art.
In a 1964 Supreme Court case, a judge’s determination as what constitutes pornography said: “I don’t know how to define it but I know it when I see it.”
Art is like that too.
You can’t quite define it in absolute terms but you know it when you see it.
Of course, there are some basic perimeters that are required for a piece to be but every piece that fulfills those perimeters still may not be art. And even as art - there is good, bad and mediocre levels.
Now, for the majority of people they don’t care one “F” because THEY LIKE THE PIECE of “ART.”. . . easy-peasy.
My guiding definition is: does it continue to captivate your attention and imagination years later, decades later or even centuries later.
The opening image does not captivate my imagination nor attention .- other than its technical skills of endurance & patience. . . but . . . MAYBE 5000 years from now it would.
Masterpiece.
Leng Jun did what Leonardo was trying to do...
What's the point? Photography is quicker and better.
Quicker and better but wheres the talent there? Even kids know how to photograph and edit 😂😂😂😂😂
@@senpaibrandon8825 well if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
It's all about time, thought and iteration for me. I prefer to paint my subconscious than single things but to each their own way of flow. I like to think about nothing and paint raw data as I flow over objects in the scene. I think for a portrait the artwork is amazing in clarity, but as an artwork it is lifeless as there is no journey. I see how Fibonacci sequence has been used for the dots on the scarf, but in a loose way so that it is not obvious. (Could be unintentional and the result of a good eye for balance) eg: left side is 2, 3, 2 and the right side is trickier but looser as it could be 2,1,2,1,1+(2*0.5),1. So they are super neutral which is good for this type of flat focal point. As far as expression, the expression is very lacking and I assume this is because of a preference for a beautiful face rather than an expressive face. The face is too symmetrical which seems to create a bottleneck of flow between the eyes. I often use this technique to widen a scene by using objects that mirror objects which makes the mind create a subscene within a scene where the mirror effect occurs. Thereby, this seems to amplify the lack of expression whether intentional or not. Your skill at painting humans is far beyond my own as I have not tried to do it yet. I seem to be skilled at being unorthodox rather than conforming to rules. For me, I see canvas space like pressure and the flow of pressure is what leads the eyes. Thereby, straight away I noticed the bottle neck as your Fibonacci sequences lead above the head as if to flow to a triangle vertex/corner positioned above the head and it aligns when it reaches the eye it goes down to the lip, up to the other eye, to the other shoulders, like a big M shape however the journey along that pathway is so plain that it makes one ask why the journey if it is all the same? I like to use negative and positive like a color wheel for all things as negative and positive must exist to create balance. I see, in your image, the hair on the left is dark and creates a negative to counter the right side with less hair which becomes the positive. Skilful and masterful brush strokes. I wouldn't mind seeing your other art, I'd like to see when you do a complex scene. I am not a master of anything but I was born with a disability where every 20 seconds I forget all things and appear in immortality where I see all things and then I return to mortality and have no idea what anyone said to me. As a result, I had the lowest score and attendance in the history of my high school but the highest score in the history of my university (for tests). I always thought i was just day dreaming but legal cannabis has allowed me to amplify that ability to connect with all and flow with all. It seems my mother's mother had a gift where she could do something called "Autonomous Writing" which is exactly what I do but it took 40+ years before my mother decided to tell me about it. For me, I create art by making as many mistakes as possible and then I find flow between the chaos and render my subconscious into the path of least resistance that exists within the cloud of mistakes. I was so anxious I never painted until I was 44 but even my practice artworks seem to be something that interests all kinds of people. Hopefully I can show people something different as I think my life is pretty odd due to how I seem to be seeing both immortality and mortality at the same time and as a result it obstructs my ability to focus on mortality and thereby I fail at regular jobs due to every 20 seconds I see the future about something or suddenly start talking to people about solutions to problems I know nothing about but I see all things from immortality as there is no time or distance in the place I go, thereby all things are connected. Sorry, another part of my disability is I have no concept of time and as I forget all things, I seem to not return to mortality with a comprehension of how paragraphs make it easier to read. For some reason I never add paragraphs.
My comment is in regards to the first portrait. Sorry, I often comment before watching an entire video as I prefer to write at the moment of insight as I know I will forget the insight if I do not write it, due to my cognitive disability. I saw some of the other paintings and there is skill in all of them. I like to think of art as something that reflects who we are. For me, I flow. For you, you have great sense of lighting. I like how we are different as it is inspirational to see other styles.
That star can spawn variations
It's obvious it isn't a photograph. As is all his art. And although it's impressive, these days it's very common to see these "Hyper-Realistic" art pieces everywhere.
I would never call this overkill.
I’m speechless!😳
Simply Magnificent!
He must try Surrealism to make his painting looks more like painting than reality.
I love realistic art until they paint every pimple, wrinkle, bag and sag that people have. Who wants a picture of that? But, when they pick out the beautiful parts and don't over do the bad, it's wonderful.
The one on the thumb of this video looks like he should put a bass guitar on himself.
Why? What’s the point? Take a picture
The ego that's all skill can be taught.
I need a bloody break- ad 🔥
Great skill, does NOTHING for me. I've never understood why so many people seem to think the highest aim a painting could ever hope to achieve is to look like a polaroid.
His work is highly detailed. However, as a classical painter and photographer, I can tell you it is not photo realistic. I've seen some artist come very close, to the point I had to analyze their paintings to tell. Yet, these are easily distinguishable. The clothing and jars are a bit photo realistic but his drawing of flesh is still simply high level realism not photo realistic. The only thing that is overkill, is the mind numbing praise this page is giving him, which sound's like AI.
Narration too cute by half.
Today there is no reason for humans to be copy machines, just take a photo and let your fav photo editor do the rest.
The commentary is very good too, both text and voice.
You can make this using to sharp photo...but artist will not grow by just copying photo and limits its artistic vision...photo is for camera. We are in the Camera age now😅...camera can be blurred or sharp!
Why not just take a photo and save yourself a lot of time if the end results all look the same
Man all the jokes and sarcasm 😅
He is a great artist calling his work hyper-realistic is diminishing.