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November 18, 2014 1:25 PM

Superheroes and other pop culture icons photographed in the style of Flemish paintings, by Sacha Goldberger (previously known for his true superhero grandmother Mamika, who is also featured in the superhero series).
posted by elgilito (16 comments total)

Just when you think the ruffed collar gag is overdone in this series, there is R2-D2.
posted by graymouser at 1:31 PM on November 18, 2014 [7 favorites]

I'm pretty sure these are just the ruff sketches.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:55 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

Also, needs more The Whelk.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:56 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

If you like then you should put a ruff on it.
posted by brookeb at 1:57 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

Okay now somebody make a Maximilian armour out of vacuum-formed white plastic.
posted by agentofselection at 2:16 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

these are paintings?
posted by rude.boy at 2:19 PM on November 18, 2014

Art history is for suckers. "The Flemish style" just means the people have big ass ruffled collars and are in front of a brown backdrop.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:23 PM on November 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

"The Flemish style" just means the people have big ass ruffled collars and are in front of a brown backdrop.

I spent some time in Ghent a couple years ago and can confirm that this is legit.
posted by moonmilk at 2:45 PM on November 18, 2014 [5 favorites]

Many years from now, after we are dead, trendy kids will "do internetting", in which they gather in large rooms to stare at glowing walls while yelling at each other. In the way they believe their forebears had.
posted by ardgedee at 2:47 PM on November 18, 2014 [8 favorites]

Sounds accurate.
posted by kyrademon at 3:38 PM on November 18, 2014

The Spider-Man one is actually pretty close to Spider-Man 1602. (Don't judge me I just read it in hopes of good Elizabethan Spidey-banter.)
posted by bettafish at 5:51 PM on November 18, 2014

Milady,’Tis The Clobbering Hour
posted by straight at 9:23 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

The Iron man one is impressive, but the iron mask, the armour thing were clearly borrowed to the past when the character was first created. The feeling that the picture shows some kind of Chimera built of parts originating from different spaces and times emphasizes the feeling that this creature is a sort of (somehow threatening) time hound, living in a lynchian limbo.
posted by nicolin at 1:38 AM on November 19, 2014

These photos are what 21st century people think Flemish/Elizabethan/Renaissance* art looks like. This makes the photos interesting - self-referential and a commentary upon themselves - but it does not make them good because I seriously doubt the photographer set out to make them a meta-commentary of 21st mainstream art appreciation.

(*delete as applicable - I've seen all these adjectives thrown at them over the past few days)

This is one of those days I should not be allowed on the internet.
posted by kariebookish at 5:20 AM on November 19, 2014

I'm just glad they used the correct Superman.
posted by yeolcoatl at 6:40 AM on November 19, 2014

Previouslyish
posted by rtimmel at 1:11 PM on November 19, 2014