Video: UFOs and idyllic landscapes: the second life of old paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Dave Pollot - an extraordinary and outrageous artist from New York. His hobby is to give a second life to paintings that have been forgotten for various reasons. Dave finds old works of art in thrift stores or flea markets and transforms them significantly, complementing realistic landscapes with fantastic elements.
Dave Pollot's works look very original, because the artist uses digital technologies to professionally select the color scheme and recreate the author's style, so it is difficult to distinguish outside interference in the “edited” version. Before the viewer - absurd scenes: either a plate of aliens flying over a village house, or Darth Vader's ship plying the rural streets.
The process of "modernizing" the canvases is quite laborious: Pollot is helped by his friend Becky, who most often searches for paintings. Dave Pollot is happy to create more and more unusual stories. Of course, such creativity is unlikely to become a new word in modern art, but this creative method is quite suitable in order to save some old paintings from complete oblivion.
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