Chilean born-artist, Claudio Bravo is best known for his realistic and vibrant trompe l’oeil styled still-life drawings and paintings. Influenced by Renaissance, Braque and the more realistically produced Surrealists like Salvador Dali, his hyperrealist rendering convey not only immense talent and skill but also a notion of warmth and personality within the inanimate subject matter. His pencil drawing, New Hebrides Tusks, showcases his technical proficiency while cultivating a quiet and mysterious narrative leaving the viewer to wonder if the object present is more magical then mundane and the classical use of value is a gorgeous example of how delicate dark to light transitions can be.