Classic Art Through A Sci-Fi Lens

Upgrades, updates, and “New for 2013!”… we are all familiar with these kinds of enticements to get us to move on with the new and leave the old behind. But modern capitalist America wasn’t the inventor of this thinking though, it was actually God! He had this idea long ago for all of us as an opportunity to live a fresh new life by knowing and following him:

2 Corinthians 5: “¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.” -awesome concept!

Below from visualnews.com

What happens when you take world-famous artworks from the distant past and re-interpret them through the lens of modern fantasy? I’m not sure what’s more exciting about these artworks, the fact that they where made based on some of the worlds most famous paintings, or how well each re-working stands up on its own.

John Mattos, Tim O’Brien, Luke Radi and Carlos Pacheco are some of the artists rounding out this collection of remixes. Some of the artworks where created for book covers and others simply for the joy of making art. Among the highlights to the roundup: we see renditions of Pablo Picasso’s work remixed with a Star Wars theme, Norman Rockwell mashed up with a host of DC comics characters and Salvador Dali given the Wolverine treatment.

Remixing art has become quite popular in recent years, so here’s the question: how will our current art be re-interpreted in the future… and if it’s not too much of a stretch, how will our re-interpretations be re-interpreted?

Above: Marcel Duchamp’s abstract Nude Descending a Staircase, remixed by John Mattos with C3PO
Below: He then remixed Pablo Picasso’s Three Musicians with the Star Wars’ Cantina.