Beautiful Magazine Editorial Inspired by Surrealist Master Rene Magritte

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The Paintings of Renaissance Masters Blended with the Images of Superheros

This wonderful and fun website call worth1000 does frequent competitions among it's members involving photoshop. This is the result of a contest they did blending the paintings of Renaissance Masters with that of superheros such as Batman in it's incarnation as The Black Knight, Spiderman, and Catwoman among others. This stuff is really well done.


The Son Of Batman is a remake of Belgian surrealist master Rene Magritte’s “The Son on Man.”



“Batman Mourning.” I don't who the Renaissance Master this was copied from


“Poison Ivy Pestering Batman Again.”


“Spiderman.”


“Catwoman”, is based on one of Salvador Dali’s many surrealist paintings.

“The Death of Kent” which is a digital reworking of David’s Death of Marat.


Next we have a representation called “Spiderman and Doc Oc” which was inspired by a painting from the irrepressibly impious Salvador Dali.


“David X Men” which was, off course, was inspired by the world famous statue by Renaissance master Michelangelo.


“The Joker.” This representation was inspired by one of Rembrandt’s many self portraits.
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The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa - From Dali to Banksy

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the world's most famous and celebrated work of art and as such, it has been celebrated--and ridiculed--by world famous artists including Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Fernando Botero, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy.



A reader who signed in as "Anonymous" left the links for the three awesome Banksy images in a comment. Also, the clever and fun version of the Mona Lisa painted with peanut butter and jelly by Vik Muniz was a contribution from another (the same?) Anonymous. Thank you so much anonymous contributors! Check out the various renditions of the famous Gioconda below.





Banksy



Fernando Botero, Mona Lisa, 1963





Salvador Dali, Self Portrait as Mona Lisa about 1964





Andy Warhol, Four Mona Lisas, 1963





Mao Lisa Leonardo Bezzola, 1976





George and Mona in the Baths of Coloma Robert Arneson, 1976





Figure 7 Jasper Johns, 1968





Thirty Are Better Than One Andy Warhol, 1963





David Teixidor Buenaventura, Gioconda, 2001





Kazimir Malevich, Composition with Mona Lisa, 1914





Erro, American Project, 1958





Yasumasa Morimura Mona Lisa in the Third Place, 1998





Rene Magritte, La Gioconda, 1960





Daniel Spoerri, Use of Rembrandt as Ironing Board (Marcel Duchamp),1964





Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, 1963





Fernando Botero, Mona Lisa, Age Twelve, 1959





Alfred Gescheidt, Mamary Lisa, 1972





Fernand Leger, Mona Lisa with Keys, 1930



Pneumonia Lisa Robert Rauschenberg, 1982





William T. Wiley, Mona Lisa Wiped Out, 1967





Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., readymade, 1919





Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Lisa, 1982



Jean Michel Basquiat, Mona Lisa, n/a



Sophie Matisse, Mona Lisa, 1997





Miran Fukuda, Resting Model, 1999





Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa (Two Times), 1980





Keith Haring, Apocalipse 7, 1988



Banksy





"Mona Lisa Mujaheddin" by Banksy





"Peanut Butter and Jelly Mona Lisa" by Vik Muniz

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We are happy to announce that "The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa" post was published by British newspaper Telegraph.UK. here. Thanks a lot to the "Anonymous" contributors. Keep 'em coming!

"This Is Not A Film" - A Short Film About Surrealist Master Rene Magritte

August 15th marks 41 years since the death of Belgian surrealist René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967). He became well-known for a number of witty and amusing images among which "The Son of Man"(1964) the painting of a man wearing a black overcoat and a bowler hat with an apple blocking his face, may be the most famous and best known.



Above are some of my very favorite Magritte paintings: The already-mentioned "The Son of Man", "The Listening Room" (1953), "The Difficult Crossing" (1926), "The Human Condition" (1935) and "Golconda" (1953).



The beautifully done short animated film "This Is Not a Film" which is based on Magritte's work, references over 40 of the surrealist master's paintings.



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