Tashkent-based artist Eldar Zakirov presents a series of digitally painted cats dressed nobly.
See also Pop Russian General Portrait Project
Shawn Huckins’s Athenaeum exhibition features a number of recognizable figures and paintings with a layer of current commentary that is familiar to anyone on instagram, snapchat, twitter, imgur, etc. The tension is funny, surprising and sad.
Photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory coax the images from the Paris Opéra Ballet that Edgar Degas painted from American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland for the March 2016 issue of Harpers Bazaar in advance of MOMA's Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty.
Also check out their NYC Dance Project
Eisen Bernard Bernardo, Philippines-based graphic designer, brings together modern logos with well-known paintings, making each a little suspect, and the whole pretty awesome.
In her photo series, "Historical Corrections," Maxine Helfman tweaks the way we think of the Old Dutch Masters by placing black models in the dress of high society 17th century Flanders. The new narratives contrast with and highlight so much of the frame of reference for history and race in the West.
Defenders of Ataros
The imaginative work of Dan Hernandez (in his exhibition at New York's Kim Foster Gallery) takes the structure and narrative of Sega-era video games and redoes them visually and symbolically with religious imagery.
Titled Genesis 2014 (for the Sega Genesis console) includes side scrolling fighting games to top-down shooters. I want to see a kickstarter project to turn these into actual videos games soon.
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Glen Weisgerber taught himself how to pinstripe in the early 1970s painting: truck lettering, race cars, logo designs, guitars and bike customizations.
Airbrush Action Magazine captured him demonstrating a bunch of different hand lettering techniques including single stroke lettering, and chrome lettering.
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
http://www.smithandstuff.com
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
http://www.smithandstuff.com
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
http://www.smithandstuff.com
Food photographer and stylist Tatiana Shkondina, has, using edible materials created these very recognizable iconic images.
Adam Lister has a pretty keen sense of style and humor. His 8-bit paintings, ranging from Breaking Bad, Super Heroes, and Star Wars to versions of Van Gogh and other iconic paintings, could just be a gag. But instead they have a tone and feel about them that is part nostalgic, part irreverent: a delicate homage.
You should buy these as giclee prints on his website.
Korean Illustrator Kim Dong-Kyu on his “Art X Smart” Tumblr puts our gadgets of today in the masterpieces of our past.
I don't know who created these, but maybe it was "the internet."
"There are
a great many ways to vanish—
a knife kick through the surface,
a stuttering shift sideways,
a four-quartered tear, an inwardly
diminishing spiral—"
Costa Rica based artist Marco Battaglini creates paintings often reminiscent of a Renaissance composition with classical figures and subject painted in with graffiti, tattoos, and nods to Warhol and Lichtenstein.
An Italian designer and animator, Luca Agnani has created a short film, Van Gogh’s Shadow, with more that a dozen Van Gogh paintings with a touch of animation and movement.
Melbourne-based photographer Bill Gekas has his young daughter fulfill a lot of roles in this series of photos re-creating these famous paintings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Daring and forward thinking hipster Shakespeare has been fashioned as a 'modern day playwright' with his edgy Shoreditch shirt and waistcoat look.
He has been given piercings on both ears, leaving questions about his sexuality unanswered.
An actor as well as a playwright, Shakespeare might have taken advantage of modern-day hair transplanting techniques to sport a full head of hair like numerous celebrity actors.
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Horatio Nelson were rendered as responsibly as possible in this project, commissioned by history TV channel Yesterday for its new series "The Secret Life Of...", had digital artists and historians working together to get the portraits a reasonable 2013 look.
Text and images from The Telegraph
ABOVE: ADMIRAL LORD NELSON
A Vice Admiral and dedicated navy officer, Nelson is dressed in a modern naval uniform.
In today's Navy, Nelson would spend more time deskbound and as such he would have gained a little weight which is reflected in the portrait.
To replace the right arm lost after being wounded in battle, he has been given a prosthetic to wear.
The Victoria Cross wasn't available during his time but had they been in existence, he would have qualified.
HENRY VIII
Renowned for being vain and lavish, King Henry has been given white veneers and hair plugs to hide his balding head.
Known to flaunt his wealth, is now out of his voluminous puffed sleeve velvet gown and in a tailored designer black suit, wearing a sparkling diamond ring and designer watch.
Instead of the cotton shirt fastened up to the chin he now sports an unbuttoned shirt Simon Cowell style and is very much the modern day lady killer.
An avid sportsman and known for being conceited he has been slimmed down. Henry's vanity would have ensured he would have retained the naturally muscly, rugby-player type figure he had in his youth.
Known for having spent a lot of time outdoors riding, hunting, and playing tennis, Henry VIII has also been given a tan.
Henry has exchanged his uncomfortable flat footed shoes for modern shoes with a heel.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Her three-foot tall hair has been let down and her unusually high forehead concealed with a trendy fringe.
Known for her crooked teeth in her youth she has been given a full modern-day orthodontic treatment.
Teased for her small breasts as a teenager, she has been given breast implants.
Known for being fashionable and changing clothes three times a day, Marie Antoinette is dressed in a modern designer dress. Reported to express how she was feeling through the accessories in her wig, she is wearing a flirty Philip Treacey style hat.
Her modern day portrait also shows the her fully-made up in colourful make-up.
Elizabeth I
A powerful no-nonsense female leader, Elizabeth might have straightened her hair in a powerful yet stylish short cropped style.
Known for her love of fashion, she would be more likely to wear a bespoke stylish and unique female suit made with rich colours and material.
Rarely pictured smiling, Queen Elizabeth exudes power in the modern day portrait, and hides her new veneers purchased to disguise her notoriously bad teeth.
