Stockholm, Sweden-based artist Linnea Strid creates these hyper-realistic oil paintings depict intriguing portraits of people conveyed through water.
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"Most of my pieces are like snap shots of my (or someone else’s) every day life, and most likely there's a small twist added to it, in the painting itself or in the title. Like some sort of underlying irony, a more serious or political touch, contradictory feelings, or something else. I really do enjoy working in a photo realistic style, it’s always been “my” medium of expression, ever since I was a kid I knew that it was what I did best and what I liked to do most."
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"Art can be viewed in different ways, and one person can look at a piece that I've made and just think "oh, that's a pretty picture, it's very well done". I don’t judge people who can’t spot anything more in my work than that, and it’s ok. But after a first glance you can also come to the conclusion that a painting like "Rinse and exhale" can tell you some sort of alternative story, like why is she taking a shower with her clothes on? And the water running on her face, is it only water or are they tears? I don't want to be too obvious when I make a painting, I want the viewer to decide what it means and what the painting is telling them."
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"Most of my pieces are like snap shots of my (or someone else’s) every day life, and most likely there's a small twist added to it, in the painting itself or in the title. Like some sort of underlying irony, a more serious or political touch, contradictory feelings, or something else. I really do enjoy working in a photo realistic style, it’s always been “my” medium of expression, ever since I was a kid I knew that it was what I did best and what I liked to do most."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP82ZNzhED2xv-khSxUs5GCIj1uQ-5-l3iMsW_iGpXlaTQAtPzS4nHsGvGWCV2LZDt2MCDO-uTYSAf8RohCAg83fb4mRjAtqdoZvSQy94yr9vnGdp6Xy3whANvT5kcJlRT-uX8hnN6o5A/s1600/02.jpg)
"Art can be viewed in different ways, and one person can look at a piece that I've made and just think "oh, that's a pretty picture, it's very well done". I don’t judge people who can’t spot anything more in my work than that, and it’s ok. But after a first glance you can also come to the conclusion that a painting like "Rinse and exhale" can tell you some sort of alternative story, like why is she taking a shower with her clothes on? And the water running on her face, is it only water or are they tears? I don't want to be too obvious when I make a painting, I want the viewer to decide what it means and what the painting is telling them."
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Check her website: http://www.linneastrid.se/
Source: mymodernmet
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