Wow their work is so realistic!

Realistic for sure, but what's the message. Looks very David Lynch-ish, and of course I NEVER know what he's trying to say.

I'm not sure if there is a specific message (I've not read anything about this artist as yet), but I definitely find his work moving/emotive even at web shot scale...

I imagine seeing it first hand would be something else entirely... For me it's like looking at teh work Napoleon commissioned of the Louvre in a state of decrepitude, when he wanted to know what his empire would look like a thousand years on...

They have that "We've out lived humanity feel"...

Somewhere I have an image painted by a Dutch artist that again has that abandoned feel, but he goes one step further; in that the empty town square image has a typical podium for a statue in the middle, but even the statue has gone, as if all figurative representations of mankind both living and man-made have been wiped from the face of the earth.

Something about them just moves me... whether its that feeling of abandonment, the level of craft or the choice of angle etc. I'm unsure... but he hits the marks on how I feel painting should affect me okay.

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‘When I’m not drinking, I’m thinking about drinking / When I’m not thinking, I’m drinking about you.’
- The Meat Purveyors from Thinking About Drinking/ All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail ~ Bloodshot Records.

I tell you who else his stuff reminds me of... Edward Hopper. Despite the lack of people. There is something in his choice of angles... and even the way we get to look in through windows at high level...

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‘When I’m not drinking, I’m thinking about drinking / When I’m not thinking, I’m drinking about you.’
- The Meat Purveyors from Thinking About Drinking/ All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail ~ Bloodshot Records.

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‘When I’m not drinking, I’m thinking about drinking / When I’m not thinking, I’m drinking about you.’
- The Meat Purveyors from Thinking About Drinking/ All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail ~ Bloodshot Records.

incredible.

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If all else fail, inhale the ale.

I wasn't really a fan of super-realism either until I started looking at Atkinson Grimshaw's work and that completely changed my mind because his were the first piece I saw which had that level of realism and (for me) captured a feeling or atmosphere. These pieces are outstanding for the same kind of reason, they have that super-realism but the atmosphere they create is kind of cold, like abandonment, the exception perhaps being number 16 'Der Berghain', the angle and the colour of the sky make it warmer, more inviting.

I agree, they remind me of Edward Hopper's work too, although for me it's because I always felt that his work felt kind of detached and this has that feeling too. In Hopper's work the people feel as if they're looking at the work as much as you are. That creates this idea that although they're in it, they could just as easily get up and walk away and you'd be left with work like Stefan Hoenerloh's.

"In Hopper's work the people feel as if they're looking at the work as much as you are."

I love that description. Agreed. Spot on...

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‘When I’m not drinking, I’m thinking about drinking / When I’m not thinking, I’m drinking about you.’
- The Meat Purveyors from Thinking About Drinking/ All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail ~ Bloodshot Records.

I took a look through some of his work last night just too see if my description held up and I think it's particularly true of 'New York Movie'.