Skip to content

Failun Failun Mefailun

What does it even mean? It seems to have something to do with metrics and rhythmical patterns of Turkish poetry. And the author behind this combo is from Turkey. His name is Ertan Atay and he started mixing and combining things — painting, Renaissance, humor and modern times — after some time spent collecting a lot of stuff on Instagram because of his job and personal interest.

Later, when he finally found the chance to raise his head up from workload and create his own designs, Ertan started to share them in his account named failunfailunmefailun.
The result was a crescendo of ideas and inspiration that over the years have become a real signature brand, in the name of a main theme that is pop art collages.

Daily Scream – feat. The Scream
Once Upon a Time – feat. Brad Pitt as Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh (1887) and Leonardo DiCaprio as Salvador Dalí from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood set (Photo: Alexi Lubomirski, Special Guest: Frida Kahlo), The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Thrift Shop Art I

“I like to bring different objects together. And I like to combine unexpected things with the simplest and humorous language by blending my work with both emotional and humorous language.

I can say I’m happy as long as I create. Other than that, I love creating special feelings that bring people together. I am happy to make many people from different countries feel the same thing.”

Thrift Shop Art II
Painters and their masks
The Kiss – from V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1945), feat. The Kiss
JokHer – Joaquin Phoenix from Joker and Her by Spike Jonze (2013)
Vincent van Yorke – from Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh (1887), feat. Thom Yorke
World these days
The Shining Joker – from The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (1980), feat. Joker
A Little Bit Shaving Accident – from Self-Portrait and Self-Portrait Without Beard by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
My eyes here – from Amor and Psyche by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenée (c. 1805)
Nathalie Portman from V for Vendetta by James McTeigue and the Wachowskis (2005), Léon: The Professional by Luc Besson (1994) and Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky (2010)
Leo: The Professional – from Léon: The Professional, feat. Mona Lisa and Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci by Lattanzio Querena
Hygiene Club – from Fight Club by David Fincher (1999)
The Beard Is Never Just Beard – from Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci by Lattanzio Querena and Mona Lisa
Joker at the Club – feat. Joker
Art Club – from Mona Lisa, feat. Marla Singer from Fight Club by David Fincher (1999)
Art Club – from The Starry Night (1889), feat. Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh (1887) and Fight Club by David Fincher (1999)
Flower Venus – from Freckled photo series by Maja Topcagic (model: Asima Sefic), feat. The Birth of Venus
Freddie in Gold – from Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) by Gustav Klimt (1907), feat. Freddie Mercury
MJ Forever – from Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci by Adolph Menzel (1852), feat. Michael Jackson
First Date at the Café Terrace – from Café Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh (1888), feat. Girl with a Pearl Earring and Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Minions in Famous Paintings series – from Admiration by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1897), feat. Stuart the Minion
Stay Home – from Cinderella (Walt Disney, 1950)
Wanderers above the Sea of Fog on a Starry Night – from Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (c. 1818) and The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889), feat. The Narrator and Marla Singer from Fight Club by David Fincher (1999)
Everything Will Be Different in 2021 – feat. Mona Lisa
Art and the City – from Sex and the City, feat. The Birth of Venus, Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa, Girl with a Pearl Earring and New York Starry Night by Lantern Press (from The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh)
Art Selfie

More on
failunfailunmefailun.com

16 thoughts on “Failun Failun Mefailun Leave a comment

  1. Pingback: Frida – Indepest
  2. Pingback: Eros – Indepest

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s