I came across this post on BoardPanda.com and was a little confused on how I felt about it, so I share it with you. Kim Dong-Kyu has added modern technology to the most famous paintings. Van Gogh, Manet, Renior would surely have added these things themselves had they been born in this era, but they weren’t.
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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 centurygadgets 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 studioapartment 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.
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