Eisen Bernardo

The palette and brush strokes make the magazine covers feel at home in the canvas and paint-ridden classical art world."

[1] In a series of digital collages that are gaining traction on Instagram, the Philippines-based graphic artist placed various album covers by performers such as David Bowie, Whitney Houston, and Lana Del Rey atop paintings by Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent, and others.

He restores this crisp sense of freshness to the work, bringing them alive once more by showing how much their iconography speaks to our current world—and in doing so he gives pop culture a crash course in the history of Western art.

[7] Bernardo overlays popular logos from the likes of Puma, Shell, and Apple with works of art that cleverly correspond with the brand–NASA, say, and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.

[9] Saatchi Art called this work as brilliantly cheeky that shocks the viewer by re-creating popular logos with paintings that emulate a parallel visual component.

[11] Inspired by the Project Semicolon popularized by the late Amy Bleuel, Eisen Bernardo used the paperclip as a reminder to keep things together.