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Gustav Klimt Paintings Re-Created With Models And Props Part II by Inge Prader

Notable Austrian photographer Inge Prader (previously featured here) has brought to life some of the most famous Gustav Klimt paintings. Using human models and props, he has recreated the iconic paintings of Klimt’s signature “golden phase” for the Stylebible of 2015’s Life Ball in Vienna, a highly acclaimed annual AIDS charity event. The famous works such as Klimt’s ‘Death and Life’, ‘Beethoven Frieze’ and ‘Danae’ bring back the original artist’s gilded sensual paintings.

The Vienna secession is resurrected once again under the orchestration of Prader’s supervision and detailed imagery. The semi-nude models dressed elaborately as warriors and erotic figures and the posed beside intricate props do justice to Gustav Klimt masterpieces. With the overwhelming presence of gold tones set in the costumes, ornaments and set, the gaudy decorations and backdrops, the classic struggle of the physical attainment to paradise is restored under the guidance of Inge Prader.

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Federico Zuccaro c. 1595

Taddeo Copying Raphael’s Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep

One of the all-time great depictions of the struggling art student. All 20 drawings here.

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Video Games vs. Real Life

by Aled Lewis

A mash-up of video game characters and photographic scenes. As a kid I would become completely immersed in these crude pixel environments and they would seem very real. I thought it would be fun to try to express how gamers see these worlds. I spent many hours gaming with my siblings and friends when I was growing up and this aesthetic has really come to represent that time.

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The Crazy Town Comics

Stop in and chuckle while expanding your thoughts. Comics made for a 21st century audience covering topics of equality, self-worth and motivation, while dropping in the random and crazy tidbits that make us human.

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Surreal Astronauts Paintings by Scott Listfield

Scott Listfield (b. 1976, Boston, MA) is known for his paintings featuring a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references. Scott studied art at Dartmouth College, which was maybe not the brightest thing to do. After some time spent abroad, Scott returned to America where, right around the year 2001, Scott began painting astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.

Scott has been profiled in Wired Magazine, the Boston Globe, and online at Big Red and Shiny. Additionally, his work has appeared in New American Paintings in 2005 and 2008, and he has exhibited extensively in Boston, and less extensively in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. 

Follow him on Twitter or if you love this series order prints through his Society6 shop.

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Paintings of Joshua Flint

The oil paintings of Joshua Flint (b. 1977, Merced, California) look like depictions of memories when one tries too hard to access the faded thoughts worn corners, blurred faces, and transposed scenes that don’t quite make sense.   

“There is a dynamic interplay between experience and interpretation,” says Flint about his work. “What is remembered isn’t necessarily descriptive of the actual event. Once the experience has passed through our emotional filter we assign meaning to it, changing the actualities. My paintings explore that place in-between a direct translation and the abstract of emotion.”  

Artist activities on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr

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The 50 best films I watched for the first time this year.

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