Comments on: Boyko Kolev

By: Ianny

Ianny — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:14:16 +0000

The Bread is amazing. It cannot be painting – it’s so real!

By: Boyko Kolev

Boyko Kolev — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:59:52 +0000

Thank you very much Charley Parker. Thanks for all comments. And… Painting is not photography! Painting is something else…

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:24:17 +0000

I understand. I find a lot of “photorealist” art boring, but I don’t get bored when good painter has something to show me, and I enjoy the point of view and visual comments Kolev makes with his references to the very subject of illusionistic art in his own illusionistic art. Also, I think the response to this kind of painting is different in person, than in reproduction, which tends to emphasize or even exaggerate the “photographic” qualities.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:46:35 +0000

while he’s technically fascile the work is ultimately boring. In the age before photography this rigorous style would have had a place but now that photography is here, why bother replicating what a camera does very well and easily? Now painters should be free to be less faithful, free to smear the colored goo with their fingers.

That said, if what Boyko does makes him happy, then so be it.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:57:03 +0000

Thanks, Candace. Other readers can check out Candace X. Moore's blog, in which she is chronicling her apparently rigorous and thorough atelier style training at the Watts Atelier of the Arts.

By: Candace X. Moore

Candace X. Moore — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:13:32 +0000

Stunning work. “lines and colors” is an essential resource for learning all things art. Thank you for the outstanding content.