Self-Taught Artist Ivan Hoo Has Inhuman Ability To TUrn Objects Into Hyperrealist Drawings
By: Priscilla Frank
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/21/ivan-hoo-art-_n_6182070.html?utm_hp_ref=arts

     Artist Ivan Hoo, all with an inner sense of passion and dedication, manages to create realist three-dimensional depictions of items all within a two-dimensional piece of art. What Hoo succeeds in doing is described as “an inhuman ability to transform wordly objects into drawings” (Frank, 1). His subject matter includes not an abstract intricate image, or one seemingly thought about for years, but rather, everyday ordinary objects, presented in an unordinary manner. The process of his art involves either the still object or a self-taken photograph of the object of reference. Starting out with a simple sketch using pencil, Hoo adds life into the images through the detail added with pastel pencils. Behind such skill and intricacy, one almost immediately expects years of overly-priced art lessons to come up; yet Hoo goes against such expectations with his completely self-taught abilities, an absence of art school, yet a presence of passion and inborn curiosity towards a task which one is not forced, and therefore desires.

     Amongst a world of three-dimensional printers and technology used to create what the human no longer does, it is, in a way, refreshing to see the opposite. Hoo's art expresses a subtle humbleness to it, a sense of a grand creation out of a modicum of necessities, within a world that has such a great amount to offer, yet such a small amount needed. A sense of true creation lies not behind a tangible, physical sense of ability, but rather an inner feeling of desire, an inborn paradoxical candle, only growing as it burns, lighting up a passion, rarely noticed, often ignored.