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Turkish illustrator Murat Palta appropriates Ottoman style and applies it to classic western film, the result (according to the artist) is a combination of traditional and contemporary. 

Can you guess them all?

1. Kill Bill

2. Inception

3. Inception

4. Scarface

5. The Shining

6. Godfather

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Alien

via. Juxtapoz

Art’s great nudes have gone skinny

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.

(via metalhearts)