Hubert de Lartigue's Hyperreal Mouth Paintings Are Too Sexy for Their Own Good

It's hard to believe that these large-scale portraits of women's lips are actually airbrushed paintings.

September 15, 2014

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There are lots of great contemporary portrait artists out there who find interesting ways to translate facial features to the page or canvas, but there is something amazing about the way that hyperreal artists do it. Faces are hard to master, so it's impressive when someone is able to paint one that tricks you into believing that it's a photograph.

Hubert de L'artigue is a beast with an airbrush, and his female portraits are flawless.

Is it wrong to feel some type of way about a painting? L'artigue's art somehow looks better than real life as JPGs, so we can only imagine what the large-scale paintings are like in person. Check out the process video of his Cassandra portrait below.

[via Juxtapoz]