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Abandoned Paintings

Leonardo Da Vinci - The last Supper (1495-1498)

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Leonardo Da Vinci - The last Supper (1495-1498) abandoned
Copying, revisiting or simply mentioning the classical masters of painting has always been a mean of expression for many artists. A
new interpretation of this idea comes from Bence Hajdu who imagined the escape of the protagonists of the most famous scenes of
classical painting.
Abandoned paintings series is the Adobe Photoshop work of this Hungarian artist who proposes only the scenario, the set of
classical paintings by masters such as Leonardo, Mantegna and Botticelli. A meticulous work of photo-retouching permitted to
remove the figures and to create the new textures for background.
Actually, everything started from an experiment about the pure drawn perspectives of the classic paintings; but the experiment went
far beyond its expected results revealing an unusual atmosphere that became palpable only after removing the figures.
Hajdu says of the work:
"I am a student at the University of Fine Arts, Hungary. At one of the descriptive geometry classes we had a task to find and draw
the perspective and horizon lines of renaissance and other pictures with significant perspective space. I thought it is not that
interesting to just draw lines, so I decided to erase all the characters from them and examine how the painter really created the
perspective space and how it actually looks."

For example, the famous Annunciazione by Fra Angelico, once the protagonists left the scene, becomes an empty courtyard where
the architecture of columns and capitals stands out even more clearly than before.

Fra Angelico - Annunciation (1450)

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Fra Angelico - Annunciation abandoned

?I saw this could be something exciting and continued thinking and working on it. After a while I found myself interested in the new
atmosphere and the new thoughts the retouched pieces generated without their main subjects?.

Mantegna - Camera degli sposi (1473)

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Mantegna - Camera degli sposi abandoned

The simple and just technical act of removing the characters from these famous paintings opens the door to new stories and new
interpretations: the result is a silent scene, a somehow unsettling ghost town.
When comparing the re-interpreted Jacques Louis David's "Oath of the Horatii" with the original, the spirit of the artwork is
completely transformed - removing the tension and chaos of battle leaves a scene much more still, tranquil and even bleak.

Jacques Louis David - Oath of the Horatii (1784)

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Jacques Louis David - Oath of the Horatii abandoned

Bence Hajdu's website: http://www.behance.net/bencehajdu

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