Portraits of the old masters implemented in a series of digital stickers
ARTinvestment.RU   21 октября 2016

The whole set of human emotions can now be expressed in the conversation on your iPhone with images from old paintings

a Collection of digital stickers will be available to iPhone users after upgrading the operating system to the latest version. This face, carved out of portraits of old masters — from Rembrandt to less familiar to the General public Jan Bagert (Jan Baegert), Jan Mangana (Jan Mandijn) and Jacob Cornelis baths Oostsanen (Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen). Characters frown, squint, frown and smile wild smiles.

the Author of this series of stickers, Molly young, said that the idea was born thanks to one portrait from the auction of old masters. In 2014, at Sotheby's exhibited the portrait of an unknown boy of the XVI century of a brush of a certain representative of the "Cremona school" (Cremona — city in Italy, famous for its violin masters). The portrait remained unsold, but young was so obsessed with him that bought him from the owner after the auction. After that, along with his friend-дизайнером she began to look for other expressive facial from old portraits — mainly Dutch and Cremona school. So gradually makes it into the collection of human emotion — of fun, contempt, belligerence, confusion, delight, etc.

"And then we realized that we can only leave individuals, turn them into iOS stickers and produce a dictionary of emotional reactions. This is a Emoji for adults thinking people", — says Molly young.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru