Oleg Dou is a photographer. For a long while, I did not realize that. I thought, to his credit, that he was a photorealist painter. But really, he's as much a digital painter as he is a camera warrior; leaving aside all the hoopla and grand high snarkity over digital photomanipulation and the "honesty" of the photograph (as if photos were -ever- facsimiles of human vision), Dou's work is a testament to the power that a well-manipulated photograph can wield. Dou's pure, inhuman-yet-emotional crazy perfect automatons with piercingly authentic eyes are more than I can handle on most days, and I like it that way, thxuvarymuchs.
Artist: Oleg Dou
Type of art: Surrealism, photomanipulation
Media: Photography, computer painting and photomanipulation
Time period: Contemporary
Country of origin: Russia
Motifs: One pale, browless white face, piercing eyes staring straight forward, and something is VERY wrong.
Dou's Website
Blog entry about Dou
Blurb on Dou from Coilhouse
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