Tjalf Sparnaay
Tjalf Sparnaay was born in the Netherlands in 1954. He paints still life with oil on canvas and
he is known as one of the most important and trend settings painters in the style of
hyperrealism, which is a contemporary international movement. His painting look so life like
that they look exactly like a photograph. He chooses trivial subjects such as French fries,
fried eggs, sandwiches, ketchup bottles to name a few and he blows them up to enormous
proportions. They remind him of the 1960’s / 1970’s era in America. He is always looking for
other objects his never painted before.
Tjalfs’ work has a real attention to detail and colour, clearly showing the play of light and
shadow on each subject. His paintings hit the retina in the clear blue sky, like bolts of
lightning.
There is very little you could be negative about this work, as Tjalf says; his paintings are even
better than actual photographs. I personally think they look better than real life.
Tjalf Sparnaay was born in the Netherlands in 1954. He paints still life with oil on canvas and
he is known as one of the most important and trend settings painters in the style of
hyperrealism, which is a contemporary international movement. His painting look so life like
that they look exactly like a photograph. He chooses trivial subjects such as French fries,
fried eggs, sandwiches, ketchup bottles to name a few and he blows them up to enormous
proportions. They remind him of the 1960’s / 1970’s era in America. He is always looking for
other objects his never painted before.
Tjalfs’ work has a real attention to detail and colour, clearly showing the play of light and
shadow on each subject. His paintings hit the retina in the clear blue sky, like bolts of
lightning.
There is very little you could be negative about this work, as Tjalf says; his paintings are even
better than actual photographs. I personally think they look better than real life.
