I think we can all agree that Mr. Bean is the purest king of comedy. What Rowan Atkinson did with that character is absolutely brilliant and I just love the guy. And I’m not the only one.
Rodney Pike is an artist who specializes in caricatures done through digitally manipulating actual photographs of his subjects, and they’re simultaneously brilliant and hilarious. He’s got his finger on the pulse of pop culture and celebrities, and there’s one celebrity he reveres the most: Mr. Bean.
He’s got a whole portfolio on his site where he’s taken some classical and well-known paintings and cleverly inserted Mr. Bean’s face into them. If I could have all of these turned into wallpaper and plastered all over my house, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
This one here is modelled after Sir Thomas More by Holbein the Younger.
An Old Man in a Military Costume II by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez
Vanity by Frank Cadogan Cowper
Portrait of a Young Man with Book by Agnolo Bronzino
The Fat Son of a Dutch Master by unknown
Mrs. Richard Yates by Gilbert Stuart
George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
An Old Man in a Military Costume by Rembrandt van Rijn
Irene by William Adophe Bouguereau
Breton Brother and Sister by William Adophe Bouguereau
Tronie’ of a Man with a Feathered Beret by Rembrandt van Rijn
Mediation by William Adolphe Bougereau
Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk by Holbein the Younger
Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn
But not really…
H/T Dangerous Minds & Rodney Pike
