Stephan Balleux strange photo/CGI-influenced paintings

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To create his unsettling, phantasmagoric paintings, Belgian artist Stephan Balleux allows inspiration from ghostly black and white photography and 3D computer graphics to seep from his canvases but in wholly unnatural and strange ways. I"n a reversed perspective, I apply to painting other media’s components," he says, "borrowing, for instance, from photography its quality of focus, blur and texture. I also borrow from computer imagery a precise mastering of the whole image." Balleux calls the result "expanded painting." Stephan Balleux: Sui generis

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bookmarked for a long dig, initial impression of a baconesque slant to some portrait work – yumyum
http://www.zhrodague.net/ Drew from Zhrodague

Similarly, Wess Smith does compositing of digital imagery into some pretty wild art. No CGI I believe, just shots he’s taken. Pretty interesting stuff.
http://profile.yahoo.com/SBPMKIPUKXKDPMHKBHKYKKHMBM Dillon

reminds me of some of Jennifer Cronin’s work http://www.jennifercronin.com/uploads/2/7/3/0/2730610/9991134_orig.jpg
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he should make a movie with Riddley Scott