Artist Turns Classic Works of Art Into 8-Bit Masterpieces

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Artist Turns Classic Works of Art Into 8-Bit Masterpieces
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Imagine if your favorite arcade games could hang in an art gallery

Artist Adam Lister (http://www.adamlistergallery.com/) combines the art world with the video game (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) world by taking famous paintings and images from pop culture and painting them as 8-bit graphics. Lister begins with familiar pieces like Van Gogh's Starry Night or da Vinci's The Last Supper and transforms them into flat, angular shapes — all in stunning works of watercolor.

See also: 8-Bit 'True Detective' Solves Yellow King Case in 90 Seconds (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/true-detective-8-bit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


"These pictures are like puzzles, carefully taken apart and then pieced back together to reveal the subject. By referencing classical works of art, and **stalgic scenes and objects, I find these works to be transformations of images that have a collective familiarity," Lister wrote to Mashable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/8-bit-watercolor-art/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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