Bert Monroy was born in NewYork city where he spent 20 years as an art director and creative director of many major advertising companies as well as his own company Incredible Interactivity. When discovered the ability of the Macintosh 128 and Photoshop software in 1984, he started a new journey in his carreer.
Every artworks and graphic designs of Monroy never use any photographs but any details of them exactly like a photograph. He sketches his artworks by Illustrator tool and then uses Photoshop to creative light, shadow and any realistic elements.
"I consider myself a Hyper-realist artist. I love to paint. I use the word paint for lack of a better word. My medium is actually light. I have a passion for making things happen on the screen. Finding a new way of doing something and finding a new room in my imagination is what I love about the work." Monroy said.
In Photoshop World conference in Miami (USA), Monroy made the audience extremely suprised when introduced his digital art work: Damen train station in Chicago. He spent 11 months with 2.00 hours hard working to finished this panorama picture by computer. With 15.000 layers, Monroy represented Damen train station exactly with each brick on the sidewalk, each spot on the wall and so on.
"As a photo-realist painter, I have often been asked why I don’t just take a photograph. Good question, when you consider my paintings look like photographs. Well, for one thing, I’m not a photographer. To me, it is not the destination that is important—it is the journey. The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation. Monroy said.
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