Friday, February 5, 2010

The Hyped Up Realism of Oleg Dou

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OLEG DOU IS A RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHER who pushes photoshop to it’s limits. He starts with a photographic portrait, then goes to work. Enlarging and moving the eyes, chaning skin tones—his is an art that closely resembles the digital work found in a movie like James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s real—no it’s not—yes it is! There is a cold, unhuman-like quality to Dou’s work, which is exactly what he wants to achieve. Zombie-like synthetic androids.... this is what mankind’s scientists would end up with if we ever started building humans from DNA. We’d get these “people” — synthetic children for childless couples; sex partners for those willing to go there; soldiers to fight our battles; spouses for those people who prefer someone who will do exactly as they say. Oleg Dou is a master craftsman, an artist making a statement. Is it working? Are these highly-smoothed and manipulated portraits doing something new? Or, is technology leading the horse? You tell me.

What do you think folks?

Check out his site here.

9 comments:

Pablo Muñoz de Arenillas said...

I love the portrait series is wonderful!

A greeting

Maureen said...

All female and with no eyebrows.

Ngan {eNVe Designs} said...

so haunting yet gorgeous!

eubie said...

The beauty lies not in what is there but what it calls to mind that is absent - the textures and marks of living and life.

This takes the notion of beauty to its extreme abstraction and creates emptiness that is eerie. Perfect for the "faceless" members of a society perhaps, but would you want them as family?

Looking at them raises questions about what we appreciate as beauty.

Som's Studio said...

I have never seen anything like this before, thanks for posting this!

Anonymous said...

you have an interesting collection.

Anonymous said...

Just amazing...Gary

Doryen said...

Strangely Dark: The Hyped Up Realism of Oleg Dou http://strangelydark.blogspot.com/2010/02/hyped-up-realism-of-oleg-dou.html?spref=tw

Unknown said...

Amazing blog post it is thank you so much!!!

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