Artist Completely Wraps Rooms with Famous Paintings — from mymodernmet.com by Jon Rafman
Excerpt:
While at first glance these rooms may look like something you’d find in one of today’s swanky design hotels (like in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas), you might be surprised to find out that they’re actually the work of one digital artist. Jon Rafman, known for his Google Street View series, is behind an ongoing project called Brand New Paint Job where he takes modernist paintings, like those from Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marc Chagall, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, and Willem De Kooning, and completely wraps rooms with them. Of course, these aren’t any ordinary rooms, they’re 3D models taken from Google 3D Warehouse, an online gallery that allows users of Google Sketchup, a free 3D modelling program, to upload to and share their works.
