Comments on: Tom Hunter’s Photographic Recreations Of Famous Paintings (NSFW)

By: Annoyingly Long Comment Lady

Annoyingly Long Comment Lady — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:20:00 +0000

I only just found this and it’s a god send since i was trying to find the paintings that inspired Tom Hunter, for the most part I could tell but I wanted to be sure. However I was a bit disappointed with some of the comments made! I don’t think he is trying to recreate the atmosphere in the original paintings he is trying to bring something splendid and fantastical into he boring and mundane everyday.Plus most of his photos have more of a back story than just the paintings he has been inspired by. I think his photos are raw and he doesn’t use the typically correct lighting but that’s because he doesn’t want to beautify the photo’s, they are stark and that’s what makes them amazing. In an interview he said he uses the wrong film, lighting, camera exposure etc on purpose! I love the amazing paintings, they take me somewhere magical yet tragic, but it never hits home, it’s in a bubble and you can’t really relate to anything in them because they are so fantastical, Tom Hunter’s work allows you to have a connection, a belief that it is real and palpable. You just have to view his work with an open mind and a understanding that he ISN’T trying to recreate the Masters painting in the way other might. But everyone has their own opinion this is just mine, i’m not forcing it. I seriously suggest people check out his website. Well, got that off my chest didn’t I? I’m now going to go and have another self righteous rant at something else :P Well done if you finished reading this comment by the way -it’s way to long :/

Peace out :)

By: Louis Rafael Rosenthal

Louis Rafael Rosenthal — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:17:00 +0000

what an amazing website. i’m blown away.

By: Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:06:00 +0000

I had a go at the Sir Joshua Reynolds – Cupid and Psyche here: http://www.patrickskelly.co.uk/Painting-With-Light

By: Caitlyn Chapman

Caitlyn Chapman — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:32:00 +0000

I was excited to click on this as I began a similar undertaking last year! Very underwhelmed by these pics though.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:59:00 +0000

I felt the “Living In Hell” image to be very effective. I can almost see the bugs moving around the room. Studying masterful paintings is a rewarding exercise for any photographer. A technically perfect image (a highly subjective term) of a model posed with wind blown hair, by a motorcycle, may look well executed but cliched, whereas a woman ( as in “Hide and Seek”) with head raised to an intentionally awkward tilt and eyes fully widened to the sky, gripping a tree more frail than her- is interesting and evokes tension. This is something painters learned long ago and which photographers can all embrace on to make our work different.

By: Andrew Houser

Andrew Houser — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Not a fan. If we can say that some similar posing and possibly referential environment is a recreation, then sure. Otherwise, these photographs do nothing to invoke any sort of reaction in me.

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:19:00 +0000

I don’t think posting the two shots side-by-side has done this guy any favours (not saying you were wrong to do so). The complete lack of atmosphere or emotion in all of the shots is only magnified by the presence of the paintings he ripped off.

And let’s be fair to the creators of these amazing works. He wasn’t “influenced” by them. In most instances, it’s plain copying.

By: Martin Melnick

Martin Melnick — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:38:00 +0000

I feel like the adaptation of the paintings in concept is great, but the photos suffer technical flaws.

By: Luke Aker

Luke Aker — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:04:00 +0000

Unfortunately…side by side…his photographs don’t even begin to inspire the same feelings as the paintings. My opinion only that save for her facial expression in “hide and seek” these photos are quite…average…some are noticeably better than others while some compositions should be left to masters. Only side by side do we see what he was trying to accomplish.