Fly Art

What if Q-Tip teamed up with Rousseau? Or Kanye with Vermeer? Or J. Lo with Manet? Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano, the duo behind Fly Art, are bringing fine art and hip hop together into a series of brilliant collaborations. I mean, Botticelli must have been thinking Venus “woke up like this” – no?

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(via Fly Art)

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16 Comments

  1. Colleen wrote:

    Love it. I would legit buy a print of that first one.

    8.21.14
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  2. Art as a primary inspiration, I like that!
    Cris
    http://www.crispersonalshopper.it/fucina-di-alchimie/

    8.21.14
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  3. Chantel wrote:

    Amazing art work.

    8.21.14
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  4. Sara wrote:

    Haha, these are so great!

    8.21.14
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  5. Meg wrote:

    The first one is my favorite. Love it!

    8.22.14
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  6. Dominique wrote:
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  7. Lauren wrote:

    I love these kinda mixes, do fun
    Lauren
    livinginaboxx

    8.22.14
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  8. I love this so much

    8.22.14
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  9. mina wrote:

    I am surprised by the amount of anger this strikes up in me. Such blatant disrespect, in my opinion. High art is one of the only things I hold sacred in this cultural wasteland we call millennial pop culture…and it’s become a joke, here. Lyrics on top of beautiful masterpieces because we as a society are, apparently, unable to digest these artworks as interesting unless they’ve become a tumblr-able image with unintelligent blather printed over them. You can do better, WTF.

    8.22.14
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  10. Namrata wrote:

    Its a brilliant collaboration idea!

    Namrata
    http://seasoncheck.blogspot.com

    8.24.14
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  11. Jessica wrote:

    Haha- amazing.

    “I woke up like this”- my favourite one!

    Jessica
    http://www.allabouttravelling.com

    8.26.14
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  12. i love that first one, it looks suprisingly modern! but for some reason i just feel the others aren’t so suitable. may be the text used, may be something else. if nothing else, it reminds me how amazing some of the colours are in these works of art!

    8.28.14
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  13. Brianna wrote:

    This is brilliant!

    Ripped Jeans

    8.30.14
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  14. Genesis Fabregat wrote:

    I want to buy one !

    8.17.16
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  15. Holly wrote:

    What is the piece of art behind drop it drop it .. it’s wonderfully happy !

    11.18.20
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