Integrated In Contemporary Urban Scenes by Alexey KondakovAlexey Kondakov is an art director and graphic designer from Kiyev, Ukraine.
In his projects, Kondakov masterfully compiles heroes of classic paintings with contemporary urban surroundings. The compositions of his collages are extremely balanced and perfectly executed. At first sight, we think we are looking at a regular photo.
Source Instagram: @alksko
Alexey Kondakov (akaAlksko)’s digital collages: I really appreciate the attention he puts into adapting the photo’s lighting to the original painting, it really makes the subjects look much more close to us, normal people casually living their everyday life. Here are some of my favourites:
On their site there is a section dedicated to the originals and how they were inspired by them. It is interesting to imagine an alternative past where tattoos were normal and widespread as nowadays.
An engraving from Fischer von Erlach and Johann Bernhard’s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (1725) illustrating the ancient Greek architect Dinocrates’s proposal for a city on Mount Athos, complete with a massive depiction of Alexander the Great carved into the side of the mountain that would appear to hold the city in his hand. According to Wikipedia, the planned city was rejected as unlivable.
This reminded me of Vincenzo del Vecchio’s anthropomorphic cities in the book Terraneo. Below, the artworks that inspired their impossible -yet fascinating- architectures.
