Artist Spins Classic Art With Emoji and Modern Culture

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Image: Behance Nastya Nudnik

By Brian Koerber2014-04-05 15:30:54 UTC

In today's world, the art of expression is often used with emoji.

One touch of your finger informs others that you're annoyed, happy, or sad without having to type — or even worse: speak — a word.

See also: Emoji IRL: The Tumblr Turning Texts Into Art

Kiev artist, Nastya Ptichek, brought the new world into the old with her art project titled emoji-nation, which incorporates computer technologies with classical paintings.

Ptichek recently told Wired that she, "realized that standard iOS emojis strongly resemble some well-known paintings of famous artists," like this emoji represention of the Van Gogh's The Scream.

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Her next series, titled "emoji-nation. part 2." incorporates depressing social media notifications into Edward Hopper's somber paintings.

Image: Behance Nastya Ptichek

The third set takes classical paintings, and introduces them as popular movie posters, like this mashup of Kill Bill and Judith Beheading Holofernes.

Image: Behance nastya nudnik

Part 4 compares common social media and computer prompts to paintings.

Image: Behance nastya nudnik

And to finish, part 5 incorporates Google features.

Image: Behance Nastya Ptichek

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