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Digital Artist Re-Contextualizes Famous Paintings To Criticize Modern Society (30 Pics)
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The most iconic paintings throughout history are still carrying important messages through the art of today's artists. An Italian digital artist, known on social media as CRUDEOIL 2.0, gave old paintings a new life as social satire. The 24-year-old artist reimagined famous classical paintings in the modern world, with a highlight on technology and social media, to poke fun at what's wrong with our world. CRUDEOIL 2.0 has a degree in Fashion Design, but in parallel to the world of fashion, he is "following an artistic path by using software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects for the animation of images."
"My imagery was born as a critique of society, saturated with social, aesthetic canons, and appearances. This concept is reflected in my works that deal with social media as a new religion and a new creed. To express my intent, I take artworks from the past and re-contextualize them to the present day. In fact, in my works, the main character is a smartphone, my identifying mark," the artist told Bored Panda.
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Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)
I don't get the point of this. Defacing beautiful paintings, that this person would never have the talent to create, with lazy photoshop recycling oft-repeated "social commentary" for some internet clicks. And it's just the same 4-5 concepts repeated over and over again. Boring and hardly creative. To top it off it's all posted on Instagram, emulating the very behaviour it's supposedly criticising.
Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)
I don't get the point of this. Defacing beautiful paintings, that this person would never have the talent to create, with lazy photoshop recycling oft-repeated "social commentary" for some internet clicks. And it's just the same 4-5 concepts repeated over and over again. Boring and hardly creative. To top it off it's all posted on Instagram, emulating the very behaviour it's supposedly criticising.
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