Famous Paintings Overlain with Hip Hop Lyrics by Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano

The Birth of Venus (1486), Sandro Botticelli / ***Flawless, Beyonce ft. Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (c. 1767) / So Fly, Childish Gambino

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso (1907) / Single Ladies, Beyonce

Summer Evening (1947), Edward Hopper / Get Lucky, Daft Punk feat. Pharrell

The Madonna of the Lilies (1899), William-Adolphe Bouguereau / Highlights, Kanye West feat. Young Thug

The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dali / Ms. Jackson, Outkastr a caption

Self-portrait with bandaged ear (1889), Vincent van Gogh / Sing For Me, I’m Dying of Thirst, Kendrick Lamar

Grande Odalisque, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1814) / Doo Wop, Lauryn Hill

The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893-1910) / Paranoid, Kanye West

Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son (1875), Claude Monet / Up Up And Away, Kid Cudi

Dance in the Bougival (1883), Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Mesmerize, Ja Rule ft. Ashanti

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (1509-1510), Raphael / Heaven Only Knows ft. Chance the Rapper, Eryn Allen Kane, & Lido, Towkio

Three Tahitians (1899), Paul Gauguin / The Boy Is Mine, Brandy & Monica

Noli Me Tangere (1442), Fra Angelico / U Can’t Touch This, MC Hammer

The Dance (1910), Henri Matisse / Hey Ya, Outkast

Autoportrait/Tamara in the green Bugatti (1925), Tamara de Lempicka / Otis, Kanye West & Jay-Z feat. Otis Reddinga

Wanderer above the sea of fog (1818), Caspar David Friedrich / Lost in the World, Kanye West feat. Bon Iver

The Starry Night (1889), Vincent van Gogh / Diamonds From Sierra Leone, Kanye West

The Arnolfini Marriage (1434), Jan van Eyck / End of Time, Beyoncé

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), Gustav Klimt / Gold Digger, Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx

The Ascension (1775), John Singleton Copley / Touch The Sky, Kanye West ft. Lupe Fiasco

Fly Art, it its own words, is “the best marriage on the Internet: Art and hip hop according to Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano,” two women from the Philippines who are making me realize all over again why there was a time when paintings caused as much controversy as rap albums.

They probably said they were going to teach both to their children but did not know how to do it! Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano have thus amused themselves to reconcile what they describe as the “two most beautiful things in life” art and hip hop on the project Fly Art.

These fun and provocative mash ups do not leave indifferent.

 Source: Fly Art

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