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Artist Puts People From Classical Paintings Into The Modern World, And The Result Is Surprisingly Fitting (42 New Pics)
Imagine if subjects from classical paintings spilled out into the real world to live among us, butt-naked and all that. Wouldn't it be strange to see these characters in real life? For this Ukrainian artist, this doesn't sound so unreasonable.
Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov's project 'The Daily Life of Gods' mixes dramatic Renaissance classical artworks with the often idyllic environments of the modern world, and the photo manipulations are impressive.
The digital art project began in 2015 when Kondakov used photographs that he took in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and used them as a background for a digital collage made with Photoshop. In these four years, many images have been created, generating three posts previously here on Bored Panda. You can check each of them here, here, and here.
"This project is kind of a 'surrealistic documentary photography' of day-to-day stories, situations, and places all around the world (at least places I've been), inspired by the simple love to stare at everything that surrounds me. A new life of the old paintings, re-thinking the situations by changing the background of the characters into a modern environment," the artist said.
"The latest photo editing artworks are about nightlife, my new experience of attending raves. I am working on this at the moment."
Scroll down and enjoy the famous paintings from a fresh perspective of modern life.
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I love this one. One a literal level it seems to tell the story of a country girl in the city. On the more metaphorical level one could probably write dozens of essays inspired by this photo; on the tensions between being and belonging, on gazing into a bigger world but seeing only your own desires reflected back, ect.
I like this because she looks tired. I just think it goes along well with the photo.
Her eyes are deep, dark pools of mystery. As for her drink, I'll have the same please!
This is so cute! Can't tell if it is the mother or the sister but still really sweet!
Thank god the inflatable is in the way or we might have all had an eyeful if side boob! The very thought!
Oops.... You forgot to censor. Their ankles are showing, get on it bored panda.
ew i wouldnt eat that food. His bare butt is sitting on cooking thingies
What's the deal with covering up there women's nipples? I mean they are in the original works of art. And men's nipples aren't covered. Lordy.
And the nipple is the one thing male and female breasts have in common in appearance, yet for some reason male nipples are fine but female nipples are shameful and censored
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BP, are you bloody evangelists or something? This is really pathetic that you are so over-sensitive about nipples. I bet you can't even bring yourselves to say that word.
Whose idea at Boredpanda is to censor women's body??? Originals at Kondakov's Instagram are totally normal without this s**t!!!
Why are we censoring nipples? Can't be for the kids' sake, kids would see these paintings in school art history classes, in museums, if they did a f*****g Google search because paintings like these are not pornography. If nipples are fine for schools, public museums and easy to find on Google with the safe search on, then why not BP? There's nothing shameful about breasts and nipples and there's no need to censor them in these paintings because they're just a normal part of women's anatomy
Intriguing concept and great execution - except for the censorship. I would like the post to include the name of the artist and the name of the painting for each.
Incomparable! Because I don't know what I'm supposed to be comparing them with.
was impressed when i thought it was recreations, but just photoshop. not so much.
I think most of the paintings are from William-Adolphe Bouguereau. A couple of google image searches and you will see all those nipples, areola and all the whistles and bells.
What's the deal with covering up there women's nipples? I mean they are in the original works of art. And men's nipples aren't covered. Lordy.
And the nipple is the one thing male and female breasts have in common in appearance, yet for some reason male nipples are fine but female nipples are shameful and censored
Load More Replies... BP, are you bloody evangelists or something? This is really pathetic that you are so over-sensitive about nipples. I bet you can't even bring yourselves to say that word.
Whose idea at Boredpanda is to censor women's body??? Originals at Kondakov's Instagram are totally normal without this s**t!!!
Why are we censoring nipples? Can't be for the kids' sake, kids would see these paintings in school art history classes, in museums, if they did a f*****g Google search because paintings like these are not pornography. If nipples are fine for schools, public museums and easy to find on Google with the safe search on, then why not BP? There's nothing shameful about breasts and nipples and there's no need to censor them in these paintings because they're just a normal part of women's anatomy
Intriguing concept and great execution - except for the censorship. I would like the post to include the name of the artist and the name of the painting for each.
Incomparable! Because I don't know what I'm supposed to be comparing them with.
was impressed when i thought it was recreations, but just photoshop. not so much.
I think most of the paintings are from William-Adolphe Bouguereau. A couple of google image searches and you will see all those nipples, areola and all the whistles and bells.
