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Right: Leaning Left, 2010
Left: Midas touch, 2002
It is amazing how realistic paintings affect us. We stare at them and 'I can't believe it is a painting' is in our minds.
Steve Mills has created a great universe and the title sometimes has an ironic or critical connotation. I chose these two paintings but you can see some great of hype-realistic paintings here.
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