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/ Don

Emoji Paintings, by ND Stevenson

“The Creation of Adam,” Michelangelo
“Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Johannes Vermeer
“The Persistence of Memory,” Salvador Dalí
“American Gothic,” Grant Wood
“The Son of Man,” René Magritte
“The Kiss,” Gustav Klimt

This artist recreated famous paintings using only emoji. Any you recognize?

Stevenson: I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. Thus, a very strange new hobby was born. As far as I can tell, I am the inventor of this art form, since I am a genius and everyone else has a life.

Via imfineimfine.com

/ Don

Artistic masterpieces rendered in Pantone swatches

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait”
Leonardo da Vinci, “La Gioconda”
René Magritte, “Son of Man”
Edvard Munch, “The Scream”
Andy Warhol’s, “Marilyn Monroe”

Just the other day, Pantone named Marsala the color of 2015, and the decision, er, “has critics seeing red.” The only thing that gets art and design people more worked up than Pantone swatches is the rampant overuse of Comic Sans. Art and design people LOVE Pantone. … thus it was inevitable that someone would do what London artist Nick Smith did, and create quasi-“pixelated” versions of famous art masterpieces, only using Pantone swatches.

Smith currently has an exhibition called “Psycolourgy” at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery near Covent Garden. The show runs through February 20.

(via Dan and dangerousminds.net)