Artist Inserts Classical Paintings Into Modern Day Settings

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“The Canvas Project depicts figures from famous paintings in modern-day settings,” Gabriel Nardelli Araújo wrote on Instagram.

The 28-year-old Brazilian artist “frees” famous characters from historical paintings and puts them in the modern day settings with the help of Photoshop.

“The process is entirely digital, my works do not exist, at least so far, in physical form. It is done in Photoshop based on photos of places I visited and pictures that I had access to. Other pictures are made available online by the museums themselves in high-resolution files, which has greatly helped in the final quality of the images,” he said in an interview.

The project was an outlet for Gabriel at the start but over time, its relevance changed. “I have been perceiving montages as new forms of appropriation of space and works of art. I feel like I leave an immaterial mark on that place. People who have had contact with my work and later visit the space or see the original picture can have a new vision for them.”

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