74 Hyperrealistic Paintings of Artist Alyssa Monks | ArtLiveAndBeauty

Paintings of Artist Alyssa Monks

Thanks to her artistic gift, Alyssa Monks is able to endow her paintings with life, emotions and feelings.
Many visitors to the exhibitions of the works of this artist admitted that they had the feeling that if they just closed their eyes for a second, the shy heroes of Alissa Monks's paintings would come to life and continue to drag out their quiet and measured existence.
“My paintings change the modern view of the already established, traditional postures and gestures of bathing women. They could tell a lot to an attentive viewer about such seemingly self-evident things as the benefits of swimming, dancing, and so on. My characters are pressed against the glass of the shower stall window, distorting their own body, realizing that by doing so they influence the notorious male look at a naked woman. Thick layers of paint are blended to mimic glass, steam, water and flesh from afar. However, up close, the amazing physical properties of the oil paint become apparent. By experimenting with layers of paint and color, I find a moment where abstract strokes become something else. When I first started drawing the human body, I was immediately fascinated and even became obsessed with it and considered, that I had to make my paintings as realistic as possible. I "professed" realism until it began to unravel and reveal contradictions in itself. Now I am exploring the possibilities and potential of writing style, where representational painting and abstraction meet - if both styles can coexist at the same time, I will do it "- saysAlissa Monks .

Now more and more artists prefer photorealism as the most promising trend in contemporary art at the moment, but only a few manage to achieve the fact that when they see their paintings, people involuntarily begin to wonder: “I wonder why this Have you put a stunning photo in an art gallery? ”
Among such masters is Alice Monks , who, using a brush and acrylic paints, can recreate any photograph on paper in the smallest detail. It is worth clarifying that the artist does not copy photographs, but creates a new, independently and most importantly completed work of art, in each line of which you can see the work of a real master.
Alyssa Monks was born in 1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. since show was young Alyssa her talent Started to Grow every day , she started Painting in very early age. 
Alyssa attended New School in New York and Montclair State University, and graduated from Boston College in 1999 with a BA. Simultaneously, she studied painting at the Lorenzo Medici Academy in Florence.
Then she continued her studies on the master's degree program at the New York Academy of Art, at the Department of Figurative Art, graduated in 2001. She graduated from Fullerton College in 2006. For a time she lectured at universities and educational institutions across the country, taught painting at the New York Academy of Art, as well as Montclair State University and Lyme Academy of Art College.