An artist redid classic paintings to look like they're in an old-school video game

If life were a video game, Adam Lister would be Da Vinci, Vermeer, and van Gogh all at once.

He recreates paintings geometrically, like in 8-bit video games. By doing so, the works seem both familiar and new. They make you think twice about how colors are distributed throughout the paintings, and how figures relate to one another.

"These pictures are like puzzles, carefully taken apart and then pieced back together to reveal the subject," Lister told INSIDER. "By referencing classical works of art, and nostalgic scenes and objects, I find these works to be transformations of images that have a collective familiarity."

Here are some of the highlights of his work.