Welcome to Dali-wood! Artist brings new life to famous painters and their work by merging them with scenes from popular culture – from Frida Kahlo in Ghost to Van Gogh at the Oscars
- Ertan Atay is a Turkish artist with more than 412,000 followers on Instagram
- He likes to marry classic work of arts with movie, TV and music references
- Said surrealist and dadaist influences are behind his reinventions
- One collage has Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa and Girl With The Pearl Earring in Friends
An artist has gone viral with pop culture collages marrying classic works of art with pop culture moments.
Turkish artist and creative director Ertan Atay mixes cultural icons separated by centuries in his mash ups of the works of renowned painters like Leonardo Da Vinci, Edvard Munch or Van Gogh with film and TV characters.
He’s gone viral online thanks to his Instagram account, FailunFailunmeFailun, which has more than 412,000 followers, and Bored Panda have collated some of his best work into a gallery.
Some of his standout portraits include the wedding dress scene from Friends with the MOna Lisa, Frida Kahlo and the Girl With The Pearl Earring, and the faces of Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali replacing Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
The one with Frida Kahlo! European artist Ertan Atay likes to marry classic works of art with pop culture moments thanks to collage. Pictured: Frida Kahlo, The Girl with the Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa as Monica, Rachel and Phoebe from Friends
By order of Rene Magritte! Cillian Murphy’s face as Tommy from Peaky Blinders was added to the 1964 painting Son of Man
Whoa, my love! The faces of Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali were pasted on the bodies of Demi Moore, left and Patrick Swayze in Ghost
Go no further, Leonardo! The artist reimagined a racy scene from The Wolf of Wall Street using John William Goddard’s 1906 painting The Quiet Pet
Trust Deadpool! The anti-hero strikes a cheeky pose in Vermeer’s The Girl with the Pearl Earring portrait
Ahoy! Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, pictured, replaces the central character of Edvard Munch’s haunting work The Scream
Don’t need to be Sherlock to work this one out! A picture of Benedict Cumberbatch was pasted onto impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait
Glam rock: Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s face, right, was pasted onto the Portrait of Prince Andrei Obolensky by Franz Kruger completed in 1850
Lunch vs supper: The legendary photo Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, by Charles C. Ebbets, taken in 1932, is combined with the Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
Draw me like one of your French girls! The body of Kate Winslet in Titanic, left, was replaced with a classic painting, right
Double smooch! Ertan pasted a snip of Klimt’s The Kiss onto a picture of a couple kissing titled V-J Day in Time Square
Welcome to Dali-wood! Ertan superimposed the faces of Salvador Dali, left, and Van Gogh, right, onto the bodies of Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio as their characters in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Here, Vermeer’s Milkmaid pours a jug on TV personality Kim Kardashian in a 50/50 collage from Ertan
In a bid to ‘break the Internet,’ Ertan recreated Ellen Degeneres Oscar selfie from 2014 with famous work of arts ,including Venus de Milo, Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, Mona Lisa and Salvador Dali
For this collage, Ertan added some Greek nymphs from Sir Lawrence’s ‘A Coign of Vantage in this famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe smoking in New York in 1955
Girls’ night out! Venus De Milo, Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa and the Girl with the Pearl Earrings as Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha from Sex and the City