Art Or Mockery
Masterpiece or modern day mock-up? The remarkable digital images which look like Renaissance classics
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 6th November 2011
At first glance these portraits look like timeless renaissance classics.
But these images are not the famous original paintings - but world famous actors in some famous pictures.
Angelina Jolie's face appears as the Mona Lisa while while another shows Friends star Jennifer Aniston in washerwomen's clothes.
Mona Lisa? The modern-day digital mock-up, left, shows Angelina Jolie in the famous Mona Lisa portrait painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1519
The real thing: Angelina Jolie on the red carpet
Johnny Depp, Nicole Kidman and Michael Jackson also appear in the pictures which have been produced by amateur artists using Photoshop.
The remarkable images were all designed to be passable as an 'original' to the untrained eye.
Each one took the amateur artists anything from a couple of minutes to three hours to complete - and were all produced on digital software.
Amira Wruble, site manager of Worth1000.com who displayed the images, said: 'They use all sorts of techniques to bring the images together to make the the final product look as real as possible.
'Most of the users aren't artists by profession, but still have great skill to produce these fabulous works of art.
'It takes me two or three hours to craft a really outstanding photo, but some people can do it in minutes.'
The images have been digitally aged so that they appear genuine and untouched.
Amira said: 'If you see anything on the net that looks too crazy to be true then you're simply seeing the work of the visual tricksters who play at Worth1000, which is a kind of playground for artists and graphic provocateurs.
'We run loads of competitions to allow our users to turn their hand to all sorts of humorous manipulation.'
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Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson's face is superimposed onto a 19th century portrait
Class act: Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones is depicted as a member of the 18th century aristocracy in the style of masters such as Reynolds and Gainsborough
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