Harding Meyer

Harding Meyer is a contemporary Brazilian artist known for his large-scale Photo Realist portraiture. Executed with brushes and palette knife, the artist focuses in on close crops of the human face, culled from magazines, film, and television. Meyer’s mark-making mimics the horizontal blurs found in television stills and the pixelated swathes seen in enlarged JPEGs. Born in 1964 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Meyer studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Karlsruhe, Germany where he currently lives and works.

I find his works completely fascinating . His large scale paintings, the way he paints. the technique he uses to paint the portraits is absolutely stunning for me. It makes me wonder how he manages to do such amazing artwork. Painting Realistic people, as though its come out from a photograph, or is Photoshopped.

Vibrant colors and geometric brush stroke techniques brings life to each massive canvas. The portraits’ subject maintains a direct stare giving each piece an almost eerie and mysterious ambiance. Meyer’s mastery of distortion in his life-like painting creates the effect of blurred vision and double sight. Expressive portraits of men and women that blur between realism and surrealism.