PORTRAIT PAINTINGS

Portraits are more like pictures than paintings. These portrait paintings can accurately capture Hollywood movie icons' attitudes, charisma, and mood. They are paintings with vibrant hues and hyper-realistic strokes, exact replicas that keep their memorable characters' identities loud and clear. Portrait Paintings can be as captivating as Clark Gable or as seductive as Gina Lollobrigida. It can represent the mystery of Humphrey Bogart or the gloomy veil that envelops Greta Garbo's gaze. It can capture the enormous stone face of Buster Keaton and the childish tenderness of Audrey Hepburn on paper. The power of hyperrealist art is in its ability to reflect reality while capturing something more, something intangible faithfully. Leonardo da Vinci referred to the most famous portraits in art history as "motions of the soul" when he painted them. He knew he could convey the sitters' exact expression, temperament, and personality through his painted faces. The scientific realism of exactly resembling faces and the psychology of emotions can be found in these portrait paintings of film legends. They are both direct and allusive and symbolic works of art. The humanity of their expressions in these photos can astound you. You can sense the peculiarity and uniqueness of these great people.