Old Masters, New Media

In a five part series called “emoji-nation”, Ukrainian Nastya Ptichek mixes the work of well-known painters with graphical elements of new media. In the second part of the series, the works of Edward Hopper are augmented with social media interface icons:

The first part finds emoji doppelgangers for works of fine art while the third part uses paintings as movie poster imagery for the likes of Kill Bill and Home Alone (paired with Munch’s The Scream). For part four, Ptichek places modal dialogs over art works:

And part five plays around with several Google interface elements:

Love this kind of thing. Feels like I’ve seen something like it before though. Anyone recall?

• art
• Nastya Ptichek
• remix