The American artist Robert Gniewek dedicates many of his photorealistic works to the American 1940s and 1950s roadside culture.
His spectacular and hyper-accurate oil paintings show, till today, a bygone era made by gas stations, diners, motels, cafes, movie theaters, and all the middle-century’s American typical urban and suburban scenes.
Robert Gniewek is universally considered one of the most important second-generation photorealist painter, starting his work in 1970s.
The American way of life described in his works, however, is now in extinction. It is a peculiar short circuit: the astonishing “photorealistic” paintings show, often, a reality that exists, by now, just in photos.
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Images courtesy of Robert Gniewek
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