“I started the Ditology project in 2009, when I created my Facebook account. I wanted this to become a virtual space free from my relatives, colleagues and not-very-friends, so I created an avatar,” he wrote on his website. “In Italian someone could say I wanted to “hide myself behind my finger” (nascondermi dietro un ditto): it’s a popular metaphor to indicate a not-very-effective hiding place.”

From David Bowie to Leonardo DiCaprio, you can see icons from music, movies, historical figures and even common people transformed into adorable finger characters.

His other works include “Melting Pop,” where he reinvents popular characters in creative and inventive ways, and “Classicool,” his newest series where the subject of the paintings takes selfies.

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Since he started his project, the artist has been breaking the Internet. Nowadays he shares his newest series where the subject of the paintings takes selfies.

“Classicool is an iconoclastic project that blends together two apparently heterogeneous aesthetics, creating an ironic and surprising result.” artist explained. “These are not just memes shared on social networks, they are finished and detailed artworks, like real paintings of the past, showing subjects in authentic and modern selfie poses.”

Check out his masterpieces below.

The post When Characters From Famous Paintings Take Selfies appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I started the Ditology project in 2009, when I created my Facebook account. I wanted this to become a virtual space free from my relatives, colleagues and not-very-friends, so I created an avatar,” he wrote on his website. “In Italian someone could say I wanted to “hide myself behind my finger” (nascondermi dietro un ditto): it’s a popular metaphor to indicate a not-very-effective hiding place.”

From David Bowie to Leonardo DiCaprio, you can see icons from music, movies, historical figures and even common people transformed into adorable finger characters.

His other works include “Melting Pop,” where he reinvents popular characters in creative and inventive ways, and “Classicool,” his newest series where the subject of the paintings takes selfies.

The post Artist Reimagines Famous People as Finger Characters appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Since he started his project, the artist has been breaking the Internet. Nowadays he shares his newest series where the subject of the paintings takes selfies.

“Classicool is an iconoclastic project that blends together two apparently heterogeneous aesthetics, creating an ironic and surprising result.” artist explained. “These are not just memes shared on social networks, they are finished and detailed artworks, like real paintings of the past, showing subjects in authentic and modern selfie poses.”

Check out his masterpieces below.

The post When Characters From Famous Paintings Take Selfies appeared first on PlayJunkie.