Oil painting is among the most well-known and respected types of art. Oil paint has been used to create some world-famous pieces, like The Starry Night by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and The Mona Lisa portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
André Schulze scours dusty thrift store bins and private advertisements for vintage paintings and photographs created in the first half of the 20th Century. The German artist restores the found artworks and then dramatically alters them by working directly on the canvas, layering each rendering with boldly new scenes: a stodgy bookworm finds himself in a sea of fish, an elderly woman peers out her window only to see a neighboring home ablaze, and a vintage portrait is transformed into a…
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