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Hyper Realistic Watercolor Art by Thierry Duval

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Hyper Realistic Watercolor Art by Thierry Duval

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs. By using glazing technique he works in several steps up to get the final, very realistic result. Thierry Duval is a sensitive and accurate observer of nature and the city. Paris is painted in depth streets, buildings, cats, bridges, all you can imagine about this wonderful city. Thierry has exhibited in France and abroad, and he was awarded several times.
Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

A graduate of Decorative Arts in 1982, illustrator, and creative in a large advertising agency in Paris, Thierry Duval drew and painted since childhood. He will make his first creations using the concept of narrative comic strips from 1980, initially to a few fanzines, and in various magazines. In 1990, a great Italian restaurant in Paris on «Raffaelo», commissioned the making of copies of pastel paintings of the Renaissance Raffael, maybe then it will taste for the great masters of academic painting. In preparing the entrance of Decorative Arts in Paris he discovered the work of the painter Delacroix, and that he will his passion for watercolor. This technique will give a great freedom of expression. But his way of approaching watercolor is not common, in fact, his record, unlike the traditional watercolors, a force emerges in unusual colors and lights. Its purpose is to evoke a «impressionism» of dawn or dusk depending on the themes, all supported by a drawing of a high accuracy. All these criteria give aquarelles Thierry Duval evocative power, a realism uncommon in the usual expression of watercolor.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

East and Paris are to important sources of inspiration — For the East, it draws, as Delacroix in his books trips to Morocco, multiple subjects: men and their lifestyles Berbère, the magic of the journey, but the harsh landscape bathed in warm light. His watercolors are similar Orientalistes also part of the realism of the scenes, the painter Majorelle.
Regarding the theme of his work on Paris, he enjoys photographing the Seine in the early morning, he likes to filter light below decks, roofs gleaming in the rain, the silhouettes of majestic monuments that arose at the turn of an alley, the sounds of Paris, barges, markets, cafes. He likes to observe these lonely passers on the Pont des Arts, he likes to soak up the fall in Paris. This photographic work, nourishes and inspires him in his painting: This leads to the realism of a Paris dreamlike, poetic, nostalgic and timeless.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

The singularity of his work rests on this dichotomy between a high tech modernism, (due to digital technology and its various applications), and conversely, a pictorial record which references s'impreignent rather large watercolorists classics of the last century.
Worthy heir of the great British tradition of watercolor as William Turner, Thomas Shotter Boys, William Callow, James Holland, but also the work of Thierry Duval is a clever mix of hyperrealism, poetry and refinement. Thierry Duval is a sensitive and accurate observer of nature and the city, pay attention to the slightest variations of light. His watercolors of urban scenes recreate the beauty of historic Paris, but also the unusual and mysterious side.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Since 2007 he exhibited in the United States in California in Palo Alto, and recently participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. Selected for the 11th Biennale de Namur in 2009, the largest European exhibition of watercolor. 

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

Talented artist Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France in 1968. His watercolors are amazingly hyperrealistic, like photographs.

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