Dolaana Davaá hails from Milan, the home of Caravaggio. She’s steeped in artistic traditions of old and this is apparent in her work, which makes heavy use of these Old Masters. But she has an original and rather surreal take on them. Davaá recreates iconic paintings, such as the above Ophelia by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
Like Dali’s dripping clocks, Davaá’s paintings show a transmutation of the static into the dynamic and, most often, sorrow intensified, as you can see in this version of Girl with Dead Bird by Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger.
Some of Davaá’s works are on sale at Etsy, but you can view even more on Instagram.
-via My Modern Met