Alexey Kondakov is an artist based in Ukraine who is going on a series called The Daily Life of Gods, in which he superimposes characters from classical paintings onto modern-life backdrops. He finds the other artists’ artworks on the internet and combines them with his taken photos, and the results are surprisingly stunning. The oil-rendered historic or celestial characters might be placed in mundane scenes such as stores, car parks, backyards, roadsides, or on public transports, and somehow they were unexpectedly fit as if they really belonged there.
With his masterly knowledge of photo manipulation, Kondakov created well-balanced images that are eye-catching and also valuable. You’ll certainly fall in love with his amazing artworks at the first sight. Gods, muses, ethereal beings from old times vibrantly appear in our daily situations, how cool and fresh just imagining that. Check the pictures out to admire Kondakov’s amazing creations.
If you love his works, you can keep track of his series with constantly new updates on Instagram.
#1. Original art: John William Godward ‘A Roman Matron’
#2. Original art: William-Adolphe Bouguereau “Cupidon”
#3. Original art: Edith Ridley Corbet “The Sleeping Girl”
#4. Original art: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ‘Roses of Heliogabalus’
#5. Original art: Alexandre Charles Guillemot “Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan”
#6. Original art: William-Adolphe Bouguereau ‘The Return of Spring’
#7. Original art: William Adolphe Bouguereau ‘Childhood Idyll’
#8. Original art by Marie-Geneviève Bouliard ‘Portrait of a Lady wearing a Floral Wreath, possibly as Flora’
#9. Original art by Peter Paul Rubens ‘Diana Returning from Hunt’
#10. Original art: Frederic Leighton ‘Greek Girls Playing At Ball’
#11. Original art: William-Adolphe Bouguereau “A Dream of Spring”
#12. Original art: Charles-Amable Lenoir ‘The Spinner’
#13. Original art: Ubaldo Gandolfi ‘Mercury About to Behead Argus’
#14. Original art: by William-Adolphe Bouguereau ‘Laurel Branch’
#15. Original art by Charles Edward Perugini ‘Girl Reading’
#16. Original art: John William Waterhouse “Circe Invidiosa”
#17. Original art: Jacques-Louis David “Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment”
#18. Original art: Amos Cassioli ‘Cherries’
#19. Original art: Rubens “Venus at a Mirror”
#20. Original art: Jules Joseph Lefebvre “An Allegory of Victory”
#21. Original art: Simon Vouet “Allegory of Wealth”
#22. Original art: William-Adolphe Bouguereau “Glaneuse”
#23. Original art: Abbott-Handerson Thayer “a Winged Figure Seated Upon a Rock”
#24. Original art: Lord Frederic Leighton “Wedded”
#25. Original art: Abbott Handerson Thayer “Diana”
