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Some people don’t like to get their picture taken, but you won’t believe your eyes when you see this next story because Israeli-born artist Yigal Ozeri makes everyone look good. Culture Correspondent Maya Margit sat down to talk with him about his amazing art. (Video)

"People today go crazy over paintings of fruit or eggs - still life. I deal with life itself and return the intimacy to the painting," is how Israeli hyper-realism artist Yigal Ozeri describes his feelings about his works. For years, Ozeri has been known to blur the boundaries between photography and painting. Many celebrities have already passed under his brush - Whoopi Goldberg, artist Ai Wei Wei, Lizzie Jagger, Mick Jagger's daughter, and also Uri Geller. His paintings are so accurate that it is difficult to see that this is not camera work but oil paints. Now Ozeri, who lives in New York, is coming to Israel for his new exhibition - "The Storm", which will be displayed at the Zimak Gallery in Tel Aviv starting tomorrow (Thursday).

Photorealism, a painterly style that emerged in the late 1960s and privileged hyper-real depictions of mundane circumstances, had a quick rise and a quick fall: Celebrated at the seminal 1972 edition of Documenta as the next phase of Pop, the deadpan paintings of cars, diners and street corners quickly came to seem traditionalist. An ambitious museum show, reckoning with the place of photorealism within the larger history of painting, would be a welcome endeavor — and audiences who still see technical acuity as a principal marker of artistic accomplishment might lap it up. (Consider the many context-free slide shows on traffic-hungry blogs, à la “27 Stunning Works of Art You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photographs.”)

The conversations between the artist friends Eugene Lemay and Yigal Ozeri, however different they might be, resulted in impressive collaborative results before. Their artist studios are adjacent, located at the large arts center and artist community Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. It is at Mana where both are exposed to a great number of impressions, expressions, as well as a variety of discourses. It is in such an environment where dialogue, influence, and thoughts, become a springboard and help push boundaries of one’s artistic practice. Art fans can thank Andreas Binder for having the vision to juxtapose the works of Lemay and Ozeri at his Munich gallery where they are currently on view. This is an great opportunity to survey their latest works - their ‘state of the art’ if you will - side by side in Europe.

Photorealism—the process of replicating a photograph through a different medium — was once considered a fad, but the 1970s arts movement has stood the test of time. Now, nearly five decades after the term was first coined by art dealer Louis K. Meisel, the works of some of the movement's most influential artists are being displayed together at "From Lens to Eye To Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today," a new exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. The show features 40 paintings and 33 works, including "Hotel Empire" by Richard Estes, one of the fathers of the movement, as well as more recent contributions from the likes of Yigal Ozeri, Raphaella Spence and Bertrand Meniel.

Photorealists embarked on a new way of seeing and depicting that relied on taking the photographic image, quite literally, as the starting point in their creative process,” explains Parrish director Terrie Sultan, curator of “FROM LENS TO EYE TO HAND: PHOTOREALISM 1969 TO TODAY,” on view through January 21. The exhibition explores the remarkably cohesive and influential yet under-recognized art movement through 75 works by 32 artists, including Bechtle, RICHARD ESTES, RALPH GOINGS, CHUCK CLOSE, AUDREY FLACK and CHARLES BELL.

They might look like they belong on the cover of a magazine, but these beautiful model shots are not actually photographs – in fact, they are the handiwork of a talented Israeli-born artist. Yigal Ozeri spent months painstakingly creating these large-scale portraits of young women posed in dream-like landscapes, with thousands of tiny brushstrokes.

THIS stunning selection of pictures seem to be perfectly shot photographs - but look a little closer and you'll find that the images are not the work of a camera. In fact, the images are not photographs at all - they’re paintings by photorealist artist Yigal Ozeri. Yigal, an Israeli who is now based in New York, specialises in producing incredibly lifelike portraits that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. The talented artist works from photographs that he takes himself before editing them in Photoshop. He then uses prints of these images as a reference point before painting his portraits on canvas.

The reaction to Yigal Ozeri's astonishing paintings, composed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, has two elements to it. There's an immediate hit of 'holy shit, that's not a photograph' and then a sense of hollowness, of sadness - perhaps even existential unease, as you realise how a combination of paint can look just as alive and present as a real human being.

Surrounded by nature, these women all strike thoughtful poses. Some of them look straight out from the image, while others gaze into the distance as they stand amid woodland, snow and in front of a picturesque-looking lake and hills.But the photos all carry an intriguing secret. They are not photos at all. They are all paintings by photorealist artist Yigal Ozeri. He specialises in producing incredible lifelike portraits, with no brushstrokes to be seen. Explaining his technique, Oddity Central reports, each shoot begins by photographing beautiful women, before altering the images in Photoshop. Ozeri, an Israeli artist based in New York, then uses these prints as a reference point when he creates images with oil on canvas. He told Young Masters: 'I work on it in a free painting technique, whereas most photorealistic artists work on the far and the close with similar level of accuracy and assessment.

Fifteen years ago, before the world had Instagram, Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri started painting hyper-realistic paintings. Unexpectedly, although he personally did not set up an Instagram account for this purpose, these realistic works with the theme of beauty and nature have become popular on Instagram in recent years. Interestingly, Yigal first took videos and photos, and then faced the painting, but it was widely circulated in the form of photos. In this regard, he disagreed. He still holds a very classical view on art, believing that art must convey emotion.

Bringing art to life, New York based Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri presents a series of oil paintings on canvas that can easily be mistaken as photographs. Seemingly bringing art to life, New York based Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri presents a series of oil paintings on canvas that can easily be mistaken as photographs. As one of the world's foremost photorealistic painters, Ozeri's detailed brushstrokes and attention to colour brings forth deceptively real features like solar flares and natural backlight. Celebrating women and ther realationship to nautre, his photorealistic paintings capture the etheral beauty of female and nature.

The most significant trend that we spotted at the 2016 edition of the fair was realism, with Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri on the top of our diverse list. Mr. Ozeri is exhibiting a series of new hyper-realistic oil paintings titled Monochrome, which offers varied views of actress and filmmaker Olya Zueva alone in a landscape, at Munich’ s Galerie Andreas Binder. Rendered in shades of gray, the paintings are inspired by Ms. Zueva’s own black-and-white silent films. Admired for his exquisite portraits of young women in idyllic settings, Mr. Ozeri captures an enigmatic vision of the Russian actress, one in which she looks as though she just stepped out of a French film noir classic.

Yigal Ozeri, nacido en 1958 en Israel vive y trabaja en Nueva York. Es conocido por los retratos cinematográficos a gran escala de las mujeres jóvenes en distintos paisajes. Sus obras son pinturas al óleo de realismo fotográfico. Ozeri, ha tenido presentaciones de sus obras alrededor del mundo, en lugares como en Bologna, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Francia, Dinamarca y Munich.

Yigal Ozeri is best known for his large-scale cinematic portraits of young women in vast transcending landscapes. His near photo-realistic oil paintings convey the spirit of his subjects in a grand array of natural settings: from abundant rain forests to dreary deserts. Thousands of tiny brushstrokes animate his lifelike paintings, giving way to a remarkable realism, distinct beauty, and seductive power. Ozeri seizes fleeting moments and gives them life. As a result, the viewer is compelled to gaze into the allegorical domain between reality and fantasy.

The hyperrealist painter of Israeli origin, presented five paintings in the most important exhibition of contemporary art in Mexico City. (Video)

This week, the most famous contemporary art fair in Latin America returns, Zona Maco, which will take place from February 3 to 7, 2016 in room D of the Banamex Center, Mexico City and the Jewish Community of Mexico and the world as well as Israel will have a very interesting presence. From Israel we have Mr. Erez Zemach, representative of the New York Corridor Contemporary Gallery with works by various Israeli artists such as: Yigal Ozori, Ron Arad, Eran Shakine, Yaacov Agam, Andy Warhol, Peter Halley, Julian Opie, Sarah Banbah and Han Youngwoork is exhibiting at booth AM215

The Israel Gallery in the MACO Zone is called CORRIDOR CONTEMPORARY and is located at Stand AM 215.

The artist Yigal Ozeri will be present at the Gallery. Ozeri is one of the most important contemporary Israeli artists and is among the best photo-realist painters in the world today.

With the recent opening of his exhibitionit is difficult to disagree that in this series Ozeri has reached a new apex of depicting beauty. The first of this two-part series examining and appreciating the photorealism of Yigal Ozeri tracked his career through his bold paraphrases of (art) historical manifestations of physical perfection. With the recent opening of his exhibition Revolution at Giverny: A Return to Women in Nature it is difficult to disagree that in this series Ozeri has reached a new apex of depicting beauty.

Known for his photorealistic pieces, Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri, best known for painting beautiful women against sprawling landscapes, is getting a special exhibition spanning two galleries. Both highlight contemporary realism in art and will together offer a complete look at Ozeri’s recent, mid-career works.