Italian painter Marco Grassi paints with such remarkable detail, it’s literally down to the individual skin pore and facial hair. Some of them are so realistic it’s amazing they’re not photographs.

The hyperrealistic paintings do delve into the surrealistic, breaking the illusion that they’re purely photographic in nature. We see figures whose arms and legs erupt in colorful murals and animal figures.

Images © Copyright Marco Grassi. 

“My goal is to stir deep emotions, trying to make people more sensitive. I want to combine reality and surrealism, exploring human thoughts and nature in a more personal way”


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