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You’ve probably seen the work of Guido Daniele though you may not know it. His trompe l’oeil hand paintings have been featured in a slew of AT&T ads touting their international roaming service. On his own site, Mr. Daniele has all of the photo galleries divided into two categories: art and ads. The art portion tends to be hyper-realistic renderings of animals, called manimali, which combines the Italian words for hands, mani, and animals, animali. The AT&T ads seem to force him outside of that comfort zone, asking him to represent whole countries through his art, I’d say to great effect. Daniele, who is based in Milan, has been developing his hand painting technique since 1990. He uses a combination of airbrush and brush-painting to achieve the effect. After the break, I’ve posted a gallery of his best work – the ads come first, then the art. There’s also a video that goes behind the scenes on his AT&T work, if you’d like to see him in action. I’d be curious to know which one are your favorites. (Mine is the teapots.)
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