I’m Eisen Bernardo, a graphic designer and children’s book illustrator based in the Philippines. My Mag + Art series is a collection of magazine cover and classical painting mashups. Famous paintings of artists like Boticelli, Ingres, Klimt and Picasso were overlain with iconic covers of popular magazines like Life, Time, Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone to produce funny and interesting visual combos. This ongoing project on Tumblr is my way of giving homage to the magazines – as venue of human artistic expression and vehicle of popular culture.
More info: magplusart.tumblr.com
The Birth of Angelina
Angelina Jolie, Esquire July 2007 + The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
The Ryan of Man; Rihanna’s Mood
Ryan Gosling, GQ January 2011 + The Son of Man by René Magritte; Rihanna, GQ January 2010 + Humeur Nocturne by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Saint Ali
Muhammad Ali, Esquire April 1968 + Altarpiece of St Sebastian by Master of the Holy Kinship (II)
Afghan Girl Wearing a Velvet Dress; Mark with a Pipe
Afghan Girl, National Geographic June 1985 + Self Portrait Wearing a Velvet Dress by Frida Kahlo; Mark Zuckerberg, Time December 2010 + Garçon à la Pipe by Pablo Picasso
Jennifer’s Destiny
Jennifer Lopez, Vogue April 2012 + Destiny by John William Waterhouse
Return of Gaga; Adam and Miranda
Lady GaGa, Rolling Stone June 2009 + Return of Spring by William Adolphe Bouguereau; Miranda Kerr, Rolling Stone July 2009 + Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Warhol over Warhol
Andy Warhol, Esquire May 1969 + 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
The Joy of Bathing; Marilyn as a Water Nymph
Janet Jackson, Rolling Stone September 1993 + Baigneuse by William Adolphe Bouguereau; Marilyn Monroe, Life Magazine April 1952 + Undine by John William Waterhouse
A Spanish Mermaid; Portrait of Anne
Penelope Cruz, W August 2008 + A Mermaid by John William Waterhouse; Anne Hathaway, Vogue December 2012 + Portrait of Mrs M by Tamara de Lempicka
Kate at a Bar
Kate Moss, W March 2012 + A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Harper’s Gothic; Beyonce > Venus
Linda Evangelista, Harper’s Bazaar September 1992 + American Gothic by Grant DeVolson Wood; Beyonce, GQ February 2013 + Venus Anadyomène by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres