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Maarten Koopman animates six famous paintings

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Filmmaker Maarten Koopman‘s animated series of famous paintings, imagined piece by piece from some new perspectives. Shown: Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel, Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory, Claude Monet’s Nympheas, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie, and Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel
Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring
Follow this with Van Gogh’s Starry Night painted on dark water and Doro Ottermann’s Magic Artbox Animations.

Thanks, @chrishiggins.

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