JONATHON YEO’S UNSETTLING PORTRAITS OF PLASTIC SURGERY PATIENTS. (NSFW ONES, AFTER THE JUMP.)

This, from Flavourwire, " British artist Jonathan Yeo's recent work examines another side of beauty and perfection: the cult of plastic surgery. Well-crafted and haunting, Yeo’s paintings manage to both humanize and de-humanize their subjects: the flesh emerges from the paper unfinished, a work in progress, a work of art, but that very quality is what makes the images so unsettling, because we expect more life than that."

I think it's their very "Un-life-like" quality which makes them reaistic.( If that makes sense.)

The Plasticine-y look of the skin...

..its corpse-like ...

... grafitti-ed, almost vandalised quality ...

... makes for disturbing viewing.