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Design Crowd Challenged Artists To Break The Bounds Of Classical Paintings, And Contestants Delivered (30 Pics)
Often when viewing great classical paintings, we perceive that they have a certain quality in them where the objects seem to pop. Have you ever wondered what it would look like if they really popped out of their frames and "spilled out" into the real world? Wonder no more.
The competitors at Design Crowd's open Photoshop contests took this idea and have stretched the bounds even further by popping the objects (subjects, to be precise) out of the frame altogether. Hence, this style of editing has a pretty self-explanatory name—"out of bounds." When we get bounds out of the way, the limitations of the painting seem, quite literally, boundless.
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Final score:
120points
Zoe's Mom 5 years ago
Made me laugh. I remember cradling the phone between my neck and shoulders.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
My mom refuses to part with her land line and still does!
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It gives the painting greater depth than the original bound-abiding one as it takes the original idea and adds a "breaking of the fourth wall" effect to it, among other things. These painting manipulations inadvertently create new meanings and perspectives for the old classical paintings and automatically refresh them. Suddenly, out of a static image, the subjects of the paintings start interacting with one another in unexpected ways, creating new paintings out of the new composition.
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Final score:
101points
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
Didn't you learn that from night at the museum?
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Design Crowd frequently posts these open contests on their website, with the aforementioned "out of bounds" contests not strictly limited only to paintings, but also photos, seasonal themes, and other things, so check them out if you want to try your hand at it! Anyone is free to participate, and it's a good way to practice your Photoshop skills, too!
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What do you think of these works, fellow Pandas—would you still stick with the classical paintings, or would you claim that digital works are superior? Would you prefer the bound or the unbound ones? As always, share your thoughts in the comments below!
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F. H. 5 years ago
Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
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Harold Summer 5 years ago
You tend to get uninvited when you stab one of your four partners, consenting or not. In this case, an orgy would also include incest, because the stabbed woman is his (Orestes') own mother. In the myth, the three furies are coming after Orestes for killing his mother. More here: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/mythology/orestes-electra-clytemnestra/summary
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David Butler 5 years ago
I first saw this painting when it was adapted in "Asterix in Belgium".
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F. H. 5 years ago
Nah, he probably would have sued the digital artist or found another way to make money out of it. He was as much an artist as he was a businessman. I mean, you could buy tea sets with his art on them while he was still alive.
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Marzipanda 5 years ago
Like the original Galatea of the Spheres by Salvador Dali, but now need a tennis bag to hold all your balls.
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Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
This Delacroix Raft of the Medusa is a historic painting of survivors. It's actually very sad. He's more of a horse painter, in many ways, but worked assiduously to get this right. Just thinking about the horizon line alone merited thought. This cheap photoshop is actually sad. One thing to put a bunch of mediocre 19th century italian paintings on some PS game, but this is just sad.
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
More like morbid fact. Cool, tho!
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Steve R 5 years ago
They're factory workers on a break. If you look at it and see anything creepy, it says way more about you than it does about the painting.
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Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
do you EVER see this from the point of the ARTISTRY?
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Phunny Philosopher 5 years ago
This one really broke the box. It's different from all the others, with the frame lying down in back of her. Kudos to that photoshopper!
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Marzipanda 5 years ago
Reminds me of the Monkees lyric, "Cherub, sleepy Jean ♪" or something like that.
Maryam Siddiqui 5 years ago
so in your book if it is 2020 we can just walk around naked bc its 2020?!
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Faramir10 5 years ago
I like the idea. Interesting concept. Some of these really look like they're alive.
AnaV. 5 years ago (edited)
Totally agree, but I can't understand why they have censored art pieces/classical paintings, It's not reasonable
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Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
I enjoyed these but I wish they would have been done in a before and after format. Some of the peasant class aren't familiar with the originals. (Me.)
Susanne Carvin 5 years ago
I like to imagine that this is what happens when the museum closes for the night
Jackie Wacky 5 years ago
The manipulations of the pictures are beautiful, and really add something to the feeling of the original paintings.
Faramir10 5 years ago
I like the idea. Interesting concept. Some of these really look like they're alive.
AnaV. 5 years ago (edited)
Totally agree, but I can't understand why they have censored art pieces/classical paintings, It's not reasonable
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
I enjoyed these but I wish they would have been done in a before and after format. Some of the peasant class aren't familiar with the originals. (Me.)
Susanne Carvin 5 years ago
I like to imagine that this is what happens when the museum closes for the night
Jackie Wacky 5 years ago
The manipulations of the pictures are beautiful, and really add something to the feeling of the original paintings.
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