CUBISM MEETS NINTENDO IN 8-BIT WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS BY ADAM LISTER

2015-09-22

It’s not all too often we align the modernist artistic movement that is Cubism with the middle school pastime that is Nintendo, but artist is showing us the two realms share an unlikely bond: an aesthetic predilection for all things flat. The New York-based artist created a series of “8-Bit Watercolors,” exploring the relationship between past and contemporary modes of representation. For the series Lister transforms familiar visuals, from Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” to Wonder Woman, into horizontal fields of pure color and line.