With more and more nations encouraging their citizens to self-isolate and with most non-essential services such as restaurants, malls, and museums closed for the public, people are beginning to get bored.
To save people from boredom, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California threw up an interesting challenge to its art fans.
It asked its fans to recreate their most favorite pieces of art with regular household items. After all, staying at home does not mean that we cannot appreciate good art.
The rules to the challenge are simple: you choose your most loved art work, find three things lying in the house, and recreate the piece of art with those items.
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.
🥇 Choose your favorite artwork
🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀
🥉 Recreate the artwork with those itemsAnd share with us. pic.twitter.com/9BNq35HY2V
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
It also gave in some examples of Getty staff recreating art pieces, from where the public could take inspiration.
So, here is an interesting take on the famed ‘Madonna and child.’
Madonna and child.https://t.co/ZbnVeToUPE pic.twitter.com/7Vkl91CF6D
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
And this is another staff recreating ‘Portrait of a Halberdier.’
We stan.https://t.co/K3JVGpFPAJ pic.twitter.com/rIqXzr5hIK
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
And soon enough, the general public came up with their own recreations.
Not quite Monet! pic.twitter.com/6Ejk0ayzCk
— Jenpiumarta (@JenniferPiumar1) March 28, 2020
Here is a recreation of ‘Mirabelle’ (1990) by Helen Frankenthaler by an art enthusiast.
@GettyMuseum – Mirabelle (1990) by Helen Frankenthaler pic.twitter.com/YvFzGa3TxH
— Linda G. Hatton (@LindaGHatton) March 29, 2020
Here is another one:
— RachelForrest (@RachelForrest) March 27, 2020
Here is one more:
Ladders of Hopes and Dreams – 🖼️ pic.twitter.com/uh8ViLSkHp
— GW Washington (@GWDriver) March 28, 2020
This very much looks like the original:
— Guhasophie@gmail.com (@sophguha) March 29, 2020
Look at this recreation:
Saint John the Evangelist by Frans Hals (with better eagle/dog matching) pic.twitter.com/bRtzLGnlTO
— AnthropAbolishICEgal (@Anthropologal) March 29, 2020
And isn’t this one just awesome?
@GettyMuseum Challenge – Take Five:
Vermeer’s The Astronomer pic.twitter.com/NIUN32YCkA— Ann Zumhagen-Krause (@annzeekay) March 29, 2020
This is worth seeing!
The girl with the pearl earring featuring Bonnie and blankie pic.twitter.com/KdC4v2YwOI
— mrscheese (@mrscheesie) March 29, 2020
Here is another:
— Summer (@its_summer_j) March 29, 2020
Isn’t this one delightful?
Way more difficult than one may think lol pic.twitter.com/bfiIQQPrjl
— Sara M Adami-Johnson (@SaraMAdamiJohn1) March 28, 2020
And here is another version of the Monalisa:
Not sure she would let me set up a pic but my daughter definitely as a touch of the Mona Lisa about her. pic.twitter.com/wg9Vx7KWjk
— Nickiy Jones (@NickiyJones) March 28, 2020
This recreation is just so fantastic:
🖼️”Franco-American Gothic” painted by Grant “Not-yet-out-of-the” Wood and recreated by a socially distanced family. @GettyMuseum – thanks so much for the idea! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/qb1QoBTbbp
— Jakob Fix (@jfix) March 29, 2020
Here is another:
— RJ Carey (@R_J_Carey) March 29, 2020
Doesn’t this one leave you rolling with laughter?
— Lisa Paraday (@mamawholuvsu) March 28, 2020
This is definitely going to make you laugh:
Lady in bonnet, 1850s pic.twitter.com/BIz4nmmq5K
— Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (@LloydLlewJ) March 29, 2020
Isn’t this an absolutely delightful challenge? What are you waiting for! Go ahead and create your most favorite art piece, now!
