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Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic painting

Green, yellow, red and blue glass vases and bottles. American artist Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic painting
American realist painter focuses on the reality of the environment in which he lives and paints. Using a combination of photographic reference and direct observation, each composition is awash in intense light. According to the artist, he enjoys the interplay of light and shadow rendered near a solid object. Born in Ohio, the artist has enjoyed the opportunity to participate in over 50 exhibitions including shows in Boston, San Francisco and New York.

Hyperrealistic painting by American artist Michael Zigmond

A banana. Hyperrealistic painting by American artist Michael Zigmond

Artist’s Statement
Looking back at my days as an undergraduate studying drawing and painting, I’m struck by the fact that there were so many contradictions in what I learned. Most of my instructors came of age in the 1950s with their feet planted firmly in the school of Abstract Expressionism. There, the surface of the work was the only true reality and any attempt at narrative or depiction seemed a hopelessly outmoded form of expression. Yet concurrently, I was drawing from the figure nearly every day, attempting to master the very time-honored tradition they had forsworn. If this curriculum confused many students, I was certainly one of the bewildered. That mixed message I received always disturbed me and I suppose my work since then has been an attempt at reconciling two opposing philosophies.

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

A pear. Hyperrealistic painting by American artist Michael Zigmond

A pear

artist Michael Zigmond

Flowers in a glass pot

artist Michael Zigmond

Wine glass with a pear

artist Michael Zigmond

Irises in a glass vase

artist Michael Zigmond

Still life with flowers

artist Michael Zigmond

Clouds and still life

artist Michael Zigmond

Minimalistic painting

artist Michael Zigmond

Two pears

artist Michael Zigmond

A slice of water-melon

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

Colors and geometry

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

Blue and green

Michael Zigmonds hyperrealistic paintings

Viola

artist Michael Zigmond

A tomato

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