Notes on Absurdity
A digital intervention into the history of painting
Art history often presents itself as a collection of frozen moments—composed, deliberate, still. But what if these moments refused to stay still? What if Fragonard’s lady kept swinging, if David’s Marat blinked, if Caravaggio’s figures stumbled out of frame?
This series takes iconic paintings from the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Baroque, and beyond, injecting them with impossible movement. Using digital manipulation, these once-fixed images become absurdly animated, defying the logic of their medium. The effect is unsettling, playful, and disruptive—a challenge to how we perceive classical imagery and the authority of the art historical canon.
History moves, but do we let its images move with it?
Narcissus cannot find his reflection. (Caravaggio, 1597)
Portrait of a Young Woman in White. (Jacque-Louis David, 1798)
The Swing, swinging. (Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767)
The Blinking Fifer. (Édouard Manet, 1866)
The milkmaid, sans milk. (Johannes Vermeer, 1657)
The Balcony, alone, (Édouard Manet, 1868)