Pop Culture Integrated Into Classic Paintings Is Fun
March 4, 2013 | Samer Kalaf
A DeviantArt user called “wytrab8” (real name: Hillary Smith) has creatively and excellently mixed pop culture characters with classic works, dubbing it Pop Reinterpretation.
Spanish artist Eugenio Recuenco's fashion portrait series as homage-to-Picasso is impressive. The fragmented composite frames and prop-styling work to emulate some of the 20th century master's most famous cubist paintings in a tasteful, restrained, more-than-straightforward-imitative manner. They may not have the conceptual rigor of Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia's Webcam Venus, the…
For his series of "Pixelated Paintings," Adam Lister takes pop culture/pop art nostalgia to a level that's at least three-fold. Lister mostly paints iconic figures like Superman and the Simpsons in that 8-bit NES style that says old school video games or new school net art. Then in an art…
Artist Ole Fach has a pretty amazing little net art riff on old school Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich. GOOGLEMATISM recreates the strong basic shapes and popping colors of the legendary painter by searching Google Images for matches that resemble the components of the painting. Suprematism was a school of painting that focused…
