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Did you happen to you watching a portrait in an Old Masters painting and thinking, “What a face! It seems to say …” The designer Teddy Blanks and the artist Molly Young started from here to transform Dutch Masters paintings into emoticons!
Technology is amazing… XVI Century faces are transformed into emoji to share simultaneous messages with great irony! I wonder if just the painters knew!
40 expressions: severe glances, smiles and tears. They are called Rejoinders and they are available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, 0,99 €.
Vittore Carpaccio, portrait of a Venetian nobleman, 1510
Lucas Cranach the Elder, portrait of Anna Cuspinian, 1502
Enjoy!