People Stuck at Home are Recreating Famous Paintings and It’s Awesome
During this time of isolation, art lovers around the world have found a way to unite and stay creative: by recreating classic artworks using whatever they can find at home.
Several social media ‘challenges’ have gone viral online by institutions like the Getty Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine on Instagram.
I’ve compiled some of my personal favorites below. But you can find many more submission on Twitter, Instagram (here too), Facebook, and reddit!
1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
2. Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck
3. Self Portrait by Joseph Ducreux
4. Me and My Parrots by Frida Kahhlo
5. Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid’s Garden
by John William Waterhouse
6. Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna
7. Self Portrait – Joseph Ducreux
8. Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth
9. Spring by Édouard Manet
10. Irises by Vincent van Gogh
11. Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh
12. Portrait de Madame P. by Tamara de Lempicka
13. Chais, Santa Monica by Edward Weston
14. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci
15. The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
16. Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer by Fernand Khnopff
17. The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough
18. Pictura (An Allegory of Painting) by Frans van Mieris the Elder
19. Self Portrait with Small Monkey by Frida Kahlo
20. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
21. Balloon Dog (blue) by Jeff Koons
22. Saturn by Peter Paul Rubens
23. Saturn Devouring His Son by Fancisco Goya
24. Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck
25. Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type by The Cycladic
26. Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud’s Studio
27. Lady Playing a Lute by Bartolomeo Veneto
28. Salvador Dali and Gala by Nikola Golubovski
29. A Woman with a Bird by Pablo Picasso
30. A Woman in a Fish Hat by Pablo Picasso
31. Portrait of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso
32. The King of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece Writing about Jacques de Lalaing by Simon Bening
33. A Hare in the Forest by Hans Hoffmann
34. Agata van Schoonhoven by Jan van Scorel
35. Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone
by Jean-éteinne Liotard
36. Portrait of a Young Woman by Nicolaes Pickenoy
37. Still Life: Tea Set by Jean-Étienne Liotard
38. Komposition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky
39. Jeanne (Spring) by Édouard Manet
40. Safie by William Clarke Wontner
41. Portrait of Isabella of Portugal by Rogier van der Weyden
42. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
43. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
44. Portrait of Barbara van Beck by Unknown Painter
45. Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
46. Sistine Madonna by Raphael
47. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
48. Two Women at a Window by Bartolome Esteban Murillo
49. The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
50. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
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