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Some of these oddball renderings of renowned works of art seriously challenge the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Beginning with Beavis and Butthead’s domestication in “American Gothic,” you’ll find a lot of pop culture icons swapped into iconic artwork, creating new scenes that are either thought-provoking, or just plain stupid (like Mona Lisa making a duck face). Here are 33 bastardizations of famous paintings. ...
The NFL gave us a pretty fantastic 2012 season, and now we get a post-Super Bowl treat in the form of these awesome graphic illustrations of some of the season's match-ups from Pixar animator Austin Madison. Notice the clever representations of the team mascots in battle, such as the Boondock Saints for New Orleans and some celebrity Bills for Buffalo. You also will see that some teams (the Jets), did not fare as well as others (the Ravens). Well done. Green Bay Packers - Seattle Seahawks Cincinnati Bengals - Kansas City Chiefs Pittsburgh Steelers - N.Y. Giants Cleveland Browns - Indianapolis Colts Carolina Panthers - New Orleans Saints Denver Broncos - Atlanta Falcons Baltimore ...
Optical illusion artists can do some amazing things with simple, flat images. Drawings can appear to pop off the page and move around, even though you know and your brain knows that you're just looking at a picture. Here's a collection of our favorite optical illusions. The Autumn Color Swamp The inside box appears to move. ...
There comes a time in life when your college fraternity shirts stop fitting, your hairline starts thinning and that poster of the monkey drinking "Liquore Da Dessert" no longer belongs over your bed. It's called growing up and it happens one day unexpectedly while you're plucking a rogue hair out of one of your ears or counting the grays just above them. You stare at yourself in the mirror and realize it's time to act your age, find interests beyond video games and oh, I don't know, add a little culture to your life. Usually a few drinks takes care of that nonsense, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and head to Miami Beach for Art Basel, the country's largest celebration of ...
If you ask some French philosophers, nothing in this world is real. In the world of law enforcement, though, things are a little different. Forgery is one of the most interesting and intellectual of all crimes, with crooks exercising incredible artistic and creative talents to make fakes for big bucks. In this feature, we’ll explore ten of the most believable and ambitious forgeries of all time and reveal how they were accomplished and exposed. The David Stein Forgeries One of the most prolific and successful art forgers of the 1960s was David Stein, an Egyptian-born painter who specialized in knocking off dozens ...