Tags: Serena Malyon

Vincent Van Gogh was an innovative artist, so we're sure he'd love the tools we have today to create art in ways that have never been seen before...

One such tool is Photoshop, and a Canadian artist from Alberta put it to good use in reimagining Van Gogh's work, giving us new insight into the beauty of the originals AND the reimagining. Using Photoshop, Serena Malyon, an illustrator and student at the Alberta College of Art & Design, selectively applied the ’tilt-shift’ effect to Van Gogh’s great paintings, providing a fresh new look at these masterpieces. For those who don't know, tilt shift is a large format camera technique of throwing the background and foreground out of focus. I've never been so impressed with VG's impressionistic paintings, even though I do appreciate his unconventional style was ground breaking at the time... and while I could go one and on about what I consider an improvement, I'll let you be the judge...