Paintings That Look Like Photos: by Richard Estes

Previously we featured works of some brilliant artists like Alyssa Monk, Linda Huber, Eric Zener, Rob Hefferan and others all of whom specializes in creating paintings that you can’t tell apart from photographs. If you loved those works, you will definitely love Richard Estes.

Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.

Richard Estes on Artnet.