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21 de abr. de 2022 · Just think of the Renaissance and the rediscovery of classical antiquity, or the unearthing of first century cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and height of Neoclassicism in the 18th century, or even all the way to the 1930s and the design of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings’s now-iconic klismos chair derived from ancient models.
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The word “renaissance” (rebirth) refers not only to the sudden and widespread flourishing of literature and the arts in fifteenth-century Italy but also to the revival of antique culture as a vital force at that time. Long the subject of antiquarian curiosity, ancient artifacts now became sources of potent creativity, firing artists with ...
- Classical Couture
- All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go
- A Museum-Worthy Tattoo
- Frida's Mermaid Makeover
- A Singer-Sargent Striking A Pose
- From Metropolis to Museum
- Plastic Post-Impressionism
- Moving Pictures
- Hopper Gets An Instagram
- Rococo Deconstructed
In Paint Me Over, photographer Marina Danilova captures a series of gorgeous gowns adorned with art inspired by age-old oil paintings. Designed by Svetlana Lyalina, each couture dress juxtaposes traditional textile patterns and detailing with figurative scenes worthy of a wall in a museum.
Street Stone, a silly series by photographer Lo Caillarddigitally dresses classical sculptures in modern ensembles. Caillard states that the purpose of the project is “to catch the eye of the beholder by the marriage of two worlds so different.”
Using skin as his canvas, Korean tattoo artist OOZY creates eye-catching, meticulously detailed body art. While his inked portfolio portrays an eclectic array of subject matter, he is often commissioned to create reproductions of the classics, with The Great Wave off Kanagawaby Hokusai remaining a popular request among his clients.
In his Logo + Art series, pop artist Eisen Bernardo overlays famous works of art with stencil-like reproductions of contemporary and commercial symbols. Intended as “an examination of art and consumerism; of expression and function; of personal and corporate,” the digital project cleverly comments on the relationship between iconic iconography of t...
Eisen Bernardo‘s Mag + Art series playfully places modern magazine covers on top of well-known works of art. Here, covergirl Natalie Portman morphs into Jean Singer-Sargent's Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts as she poses for an issue of W Magazine.
In an effort to brighten up Paris' billboard-laden metro stations and streets, tongue-in-cheek artist Etienne Lavie replaced the metropolis' publicly-placed advertisements with site-specific reproductions of classical art. Humorously titled OMG Who Stole My Ads? the series emphasized Paris' cultural roots with French paintings like Delacroix's La L...
In Running the Numbers II: Portraits of Global Mass Culture, artist Chris Jordan recreates beloved masterworks with unconventional materials. Each unique, upcycled creation comments on the excessive pollution and waste produced across the globe today. For his spot-on reproduction of Van Gogh's Starry Night, Jordan used 50,000 brightly colored light...
Sometimes, all an old painting needs in order to be modernized is a bit of animation. Specializing in video art, Italian artist Rino Stefano Tagliafierro transforms static works of art into moving masterpieces—a trick that somehow manages to make Bouguereau'sBirth of Venus evenmore ethereal and Caravaggio's David with the Head of Goliatheven darker...
While, during Edward Hopper's life, the world was decades away from social media shares and outlandish emojis, artist Nastya Ptichek proves that his melancholic painting, Sunday, still somehow captures the emotions of the digital age. This cleverly edited image is part of Ptichek's Emoji-nationseries.
Inspired by the work of French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, artist Yinka Shonibare has inventively recreated his most famous piece, The Swing. The Swing (After Fragonard)Rococo painting, reimagining it as a minimalist and deconstructed installation.
30 de abr. de 2013 · The Legacy of Antiquity at the Dawn of the Renaissance. written by James Wiener. “Of all the art forms, sculpture was the first to give a comprehensive and coherent voice to the new formal Renaissance idiom, the roots of which went back to the classical world. But it was the coherence of the Renaissance visual language that made the ...
October 2002. The remains of Greco-Roman antiquity—coins, gems, sculpture, buildings, and the classics of Greek and Latin literature —fascinated the thinking men and women of the Italian Renaissance.
11 de feb. de 2016 · febrero 11, 2016. CÓMO DECORAR TU HOGAR, DECORACIÓN DE INTERIORES, ESTILOS EN DECORACIÓN. ¿Eres de estilo clásico? ¿Conoces las características de este estilo? CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES DEL ESTILO CLÁSICO EN DECORACIÓN DE INTERIORES. El estilo clásico ensalza la historia del mueble antiguo.
Classical antiquity is the period in which Greek and Roman literature (such as Aeschylus, Ovid, and others) flourished. [1] . By convention, the period starts with the works of Homer, (8th–7th century BC ), and ends with the arrival of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th–6th century AD ). Archaic period (8th to 6th centuries BC)
