Ihor Gnativ

Igor Gnativ is an artist whose works were created in hyper-realistic style. Before saying a few words about a young artist, it would be a good idea to reveal the essence of the term and the phenomenon of hyper-realism. So, according to encyclopedia information, Hyper-realism is a trend in painting and sculpture that emerged in the United States in 70s of the XX century. Another name for hyper-realism is photo-realism. Artists of this direction imitated pictures by means of paints on canvas. They depicted the modern city world: shop windows and restaurants, metro stations and traffic lights, residential buildings and street walkers. In this case, special attention was paid to shiny surfaces, reflecting the light: glass, plastic, polishing cars, and more. The game of reflection on such surfaces creates the impression of inter-fusion of spaces. The goal of hyper-realists was to picture the world not only authentic, but also very realistic. To do so, they used mechanical methods of copying photos and increasing them to the size of a large canvas (dioproject and large-scale grid). The paint, most commonly, was sprayed with an airbrush to preserve all the peculiarities of the image, to exclude the manifestation of the individual handwrit...

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