| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Subject | Robert Hernandez |
| Type | Person |
| Epoke | Contemporary |
| Sted | Vitamintatovering, Madrid, Spain |
| Dato | 1992 CE |
| Style / Technique | dark black-and-grey realism and horror portraiture |
| Koblet til | Yomico Moreno, Dmitriy Samohin, Niki Norberg |
Arkivnotat
Robert Hernandez is a Madrid-based tattoo artist internationally recognized for hyper-detailed dark realism and black-and-grey, especially horror portraiture, rendered in a deliberately sinister and at times grotesque register while remaining technically refined. Born in Prudnik, Poland, of Polish-Spanish background, he was drawn to art in childhood, studied art in the late 1980s, and relocated to Madrid, where he began tattooing at the start of 1992 at Mao y Cathy, described as the first tattoo studio in the city. In 2000 he opened his own Vittamin Tattoo, which has remained his base and the platform for his international reputation. He approaches tattooing as an extension of oil painting, aiming for results that resemble paintings on the body, and his subjects run to musicians, actors, and horror-film characters. He is a member of the H2Ocean Pro Team and a guest artist at 1983 Art Studio in Brooklyn.