The crypto art of remix and remake

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by Duke +1
Duke +1 is a multidisciplinary Designer, Illustrator, Visual Artist & Part-time Alien — who likes to tell stories.

Reimagine great and famous paintings looks like a cheeky joke. 

But, in fact, it’s nowadays part of the pop art tradition. 

An artist takes an original work of art and puts his own spin on the piece while still leaving traces of the original work, creating something entirely new. It is basically a reworked abstraction of the original work while still retaining the original piece’s traces while still allowing the original piece’s true meanings to come through. 

The internet has caused art to be remixed very quickly, such as using photography to remake a popular piece of art. Without using visual effects, you re-create famous sketches. The interesting thing is that they had varying degrees of interpretation-some individuals opted with picture-perfect representations, while others wanted to concentrate more on the general themes depicted by the original popular oil paintings, or to portray in a new light the same concept or scene. 

The old masters and their famous works completed before 1803, for viewing by patrons, are usually owned or preserved in museums. Since they are rarely sold by museums, they are considered priceless. Those works are not attainable for the most of the people… 

Guinness World Records records the “Mona Lisa” of Leonardo da Vinci as having the highest insurance value ever for a painting. In December 1962, the Mona Lisa was valued at US$100 million. Taking inflation into account, the value of 1962 will now equate to around US$ 850 million. 

It brings a contemporary twist on classic masterpieces by taking a spin from those famous paintings. 

It is a typical move by artists to reinterpret popular works of artwork, as most of great art consists of taking influence from those who have gone before. 

The following pieces are recreations of the most expensive classical paintings made out of my crypto digital art and bits, while others incorporate new subjects into the original work. 

For characters from pop art culture, this is particularly the case. 

This is my personal series of…