Maybe some of you have heard of the challenge issued by the Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles, in which art fans were invited to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite works of art.
From the article:
"When the Getty Museum in Los Angeles called on its online followers to recreate famous artwork with household items on Wednesday, the internet responded with thousands of at-home quarantine masterpieces.
The Getty, which closed until further notice two weeks ago as a result of the coronavirus, found a unique way to engage the public, many of whom are in self-quarantine.
From recreating Claude Monet’s Water Lilies series in backyard ponds to fashioning their children into Johannes Vermeer subjects, the museum received thousands of online submissions. "
Here is a link which is easier to scroll through than the one in the Forbes article.
Have fun!
Some very creative entries!
ReplyDeleteMy very favorite is the one of the little girl in the Vermeer one. The Dali one with the lunchmeat is the funniest one to me.
DeleteBut the tableau they set up after Caravaggio's "Incredulity of Thomas" was most impressive for actually looking like the original. That took some doing with the light and shadow effects.
Yes, that "Incredulity of Thomas" entry sort of confirmed in my mind what I suspected: that there are a lot of art students or former art students with a lot of time on their hands now.
DeleteOn the whole, the creativity is pretty astonishing.
That lunchmeat entry was great, marred only by its use of pickle pimiento loaf, the Worst Lunchmeat Ever when I was a kid.
Jim, pickle and pimento is pretty bad. But head-cheese is worse. Not that I would eat it. My father-in-law sold all that stuff out of his meat market.
DeleteWhen I lived in the Polish ethnic neighborhood as a young adult, the delis offered two types of head cheese: regular and spicy. I don't think I ever summoned the courage to try the spicy: a deli worker once confided to me that even the little old Polish ladies in that neighborhood considered it to be lunchmeat for the devil.
DeleteI liked the one in which the fellow with the pipe was transformed into the woman with the banana.
ReplyDeleteThe guy playing cards with his dogs is pretty good, too.
I have been enjoying the creative spirit that is flooding the internet these days. The artists are amazing.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoy some of the musical spoofs that are making the rounds. Les Miserables is my favorite musical, and think this version of One More Day, recorded by a family in England is great.
https://youtu.be/Nf4XxnL4lPk
here's another good one.
ReplyDeleteI like the ones that deconstruct -- the horse done in clothing and, especially, the beloved sausage Dali.
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