Have you ever thought about how to look like characters of famous paintings in our modern world, for example, against the backdrop of a subway tunnel or a bus?
A similar question was asked by the Ukrainian designer Alexei Kondakov. He decided not only to present funny ideas in his imagination, but also to give them to us with you.
Here you can see a selection of images on which Alexei "moved" the characters from the most famous paintings just to Ukrainian streets, markets, entrances and so on. The author was attracted by the idea of combining the spirit of the past and the present.
It's up to you to judge these works, because their absurdity can cause completely opposite impressions in different people. But to look at them is equally interesting to everyone.
How do you like the option, when the angel decided to ride in the city minibus?
And here Madonna rides on the Moscow metro.
Or here's an option, Madonna in the most ordinary entrance. Its purity and beauty against this background is illuminated by some even more mysterious light.
And these characters Raphael from the picture "Madonna with a Chink" go to the city minibus.
Cupids would be easy to find in a strip club if they lived in our world.
And here the beautiful virgins have fun at the market counter.
This is how the heroine from the picture "Girl with Peaches" can look in our world.
But Ivan the Terrible, who kills his son, but this image in this interpretation conveys a completely different meaning.
But the heroine from the picture of Pablo Picasso "Girl on the ball", according to the author, could look in our time
Noisy maidens and men of the Renaissance were as merry as modern people, their fun with pictures the author transferred to our realities.
Another student option.
And here there is a feeling that amused students run into the tram, but, truth, their naked look a little embarrassing, given that the tram is public transport.
And this collage could be called "romance in the train".
So the author presents in the role of a call center employee from the famous picture "Scream" by Edward Munch.
Interesting reincarnation of the characters of the picture "Hunters at halt" Vasily Grigorievich Perov.
Other characters of the great paintings of the Renaissance in different parts of the modern city.
Such changes with the picture heroes cause ambiguous feelings, someone likes it, and someone is categorically against such experiments. And indeed, such designer's works look a bit strange. Although there are options that cause a smile and joy.