Artist from Russia ennobled hated meme and has gained international fame
Russian artist Olga Vishnevskaya has gained popularity abroad thanks to the use of pictures of Pepe the frog who became a symbol of hate in the United States. The work of the Russians drew the attention of several popular resources, including Bored Panda.
Vishnevskaya put Pepe in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Munch, Vermeer, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Frida Kahlo, Sydney Pollack and other famous artists. Pepe participated in the last supper, saddled a red horse, appeared in the image of the Mona Lisa and Charlie Chaplin. All Vishnevskaya more than fifty works frog meme in different images.
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Abroad the artist was nicknamed, Peperoncino. Writes Bored Panda, the girl is drawing Pepe because he wants to change the status of this meme to turn it from a symbol of hatred into a symbol of “peace, love and solidarity.” For this as the basis it used the universally recognized classics.
The same thing was trying to make the Creator of the meme Matt Fourier transform (Matt Furie). Positive way Pepe was planned to be promoted under the hashtag #SavePepe.
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Pepe — the comic book character of Fourier 2005. During the election campaign in the U.S., the frog was transformed into a symbol of fascism. Non-governmental organization of American Jews, “anti-defamation League” meme equated to the swastika and turned it into a list of symbols of hate.
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