Famous Paintings Updated With 21st-Century Gadgets

Swiping, scrolling, instagrammin’, catching a regular selfie… It all seems so familiar these days. But what if we had this technology decades ago? That’s exactly what the “Art x Smart” project, by Korean illustrator Kim Dong-Kyu, explores. By injecting 21st century gadgets into famous historical artworks, he takes us to a utopian reality where ancient and modern times meet.

The author of this project, Kim Dong-Kyu, doesn’t seem to be short on humor. For example, he took a classic like van Gogh’s “The Room” and turned it into a hipsterish studio apartment with a neon city bike and miles of charger wires. Apart from being absurdly funny, these works also draw attention to our relationship with new technologies and their influence on modern society. By comparing the originals and their remakes, you can experience an uprising feeling of loneliness, alienation and shallowness in those where the subjects are tethered to modern technologies.

Website: artxsmart.tumblr.com

After “The Room” by Vincent van Gogh

After “The Dream” by Pablo Picasso

After “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat

After “The Card Players” by Paul Cézanne

After “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich

After “The Ancient of Days” by William Blake

After “L’absinthe” by Edgar Degas

After “The Balcony” by Edouard Manet

After “Portrait de Marie Therese Walter” by Pablo Picasso

After “Rokeby Venus” by Diego Velázquez

After “Over the Town” by Marc Chagall

After “Alphonsine Fournaise” by Auguste Renoir

After “The Luncheon On the Grass” by Edouard Manet

After “L’homme Au Balcon” by Gustave Caillebotte

After “In the Conservatory” by Edouard Manet

After “The Death Of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David

After “Old Man In Sorrow” by Vincent van Gogh

After “The Scream” by Edvard Munch

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How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet

Art history has never been so easy! Reddit user DontTacoBoutIt (now a dead account) posted a series of famous paintings and gave short but hilariously accurate explanations on how to recognize their authors. According to him, Da Vinci’s works can be recognized by the bluish mist and locations reminiscent of Lord of The Rings movies, while Rubens’paintings can be identified by the figures’ large behinds.

Though some may fault them for being gross over-generalizations, these descriptions take the recognizable essence of each painter’s work and put it in very easy words that anyone can understand and, more importantly, remember.

But even more exciting is that commenters on Reddit and Imgur started sharing their own ideas for artist identification. It seems like they won’t stop until every artist in the world is explained. Check out the following examples, and if there’s an artist that you want to add, don’t hesitate to comment!

If everyone in the paintings has enormous asses, then it’s Rubens.

If all the men look like cow-eyed curly-haired women, it’s Caravaggio.

If everybody has some sort of body malfunction, then it’s Picasso.

If it’s something you saw on your acid trip last night, it’s Dali.

If the images have a dark background and everyone has tortured expressions on their faces, it’s Titian.

If the paintings have tons of little people in them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel.

If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck.

If the paintings have lots of little people in them but also have a ton of crazy bullshit, it’s Bosch.

If everyone looks like hobos illuminated only by a dim streetlamp, it’s Rembrandt.

If the painting could easily have a few chubby Cupids or sheep added (or already has them), it’s Boucher.

If everyone is beautiful, naked, and stacked, it’s Michelangelo.

If you see a ballerina, it’s Degas.

If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it’s El Greco.

If every painting is the face of a uni-browed woman, it’s Frida.

Dappled light but no figures, it’s Monet.

Dappled light and happy party-time people, it’s Renoir.

Dappled light and unhappy party-time people, then it’s Manet.

Lord of the Rings landscapes with weird blue mist and the same wavy-haired aristocratic-nose Madonna, it’s Da Vinci.

Excel sheet with coloured squares, it’s Mondrian.

Source: imgur

http://www.modernism.ro/2013/09/16/how-to-recognise-famous-painters-according-to-the-internet/