People from classic paintings inserted into modern city life

10 Nov 2015 11:53 AM IST

The Ukarainian artist Alexey Kondakov has come up with new images for his series “The Dialy Lives of Gods”. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
The 17th century Caesar van Everdingen painting "Nymphs Offering the Young Bacchus Wine,” inspired him. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
This idea came to the artist when he came across the paintings of Cesar van Everdingen, while surfing the internet. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
"I realized that the heroes of these masterpieces were simply looking to spend quality time [together], like us,” he told 20 Minutes. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
The series features images such as William Adolphe Bouguereau’s Nymphs and Satyr, or Cesar van Everdingen’s Bacchus. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
The painting juxtaposes the modern and oft bleak streets of Ukaraine, Kiev with the classic paintings. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)
In his series, Alexey Kondakov has picked up images of figures from the Renaissance paintings and has photoshopped them into modern locations. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)

The Ukarainian artist Alexey Kondakov has come up with new images for his series “The Dialy Lives of Gods”. (Photo: Alexey Kondakov/ Facebook)