Museums Ask People To Recreate Famous Paintings At Home, Get 30 More Hilarious Pics
InterviewPeople stuck at home during quarantine are letting their creativity loose. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged art lovers to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite masterpieces from home and the response has been massive.
The Getty Museum challenge, where you have to recreate your favorite work of art with 3 things lying around your home, was inspired by the Tussen Kunst en Quarantaine (Between Art and Quarantine) Instagram account from Amsterdam. And the Getty’s not the only one inspiring people to show their love of art during quarantine: the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine is doing the same.
Bored Panda reached out to the Getty, so scroll down for our interview with the museum's representative. You can check out our previous posts about art recreations during the lockdown right here and here.
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Neue Galerie New Yorkinspiration Of The Day - Lady With Fan By Gustav Klimt (1917-1918) And The Gorgeous Muse
I'm going to hazard a guess, that someone involved in this portrait is good with the brush in hand-painted textile arts.
This could be in the living recreations events. Same model, a few generations removed.
Mona Lisa
This is amazing! Mona should be #1! 🏆 If you don't believe in reincarnation, this is proof that it exists. That nose. That mouth. Doppelganger!
Girl With The Purrl Earring
this is my favorite by far.. one VERY patient cat. hope the owner survived lol
How did you get the cat to stay still for the costume and the portrait to be taken?
some people take this seriously and then some people, well you can see for yourself.
According to the Getty's representative, the museum still keeps on getting challenge submissions. "They keep coming! More than 100 a day," she said.
"The online challenge has reached many people around the world who may not be in a position to visit Los Angeles or Getty. We hope they’ll be inspired to come when they get a chance," the museum representative told us.
She also confirmed that many of the museum staff are working at home, while a number are working on site to "ensure the collections and grounds are safe and well maintained." The representative also revealed that everyone's eager to get on site to see their coworkers and work with the collections once again.
The Lady In A Fur Wrap
Excellent job! Hand is perfect. Fur wrap and headwrap identical. Model more beautiful than the original.
The first one probably is. I don't think that they could make a fake fur like that one when the painting was done.
Load More Replies...Even down to the red detail under the headpiece. Reenactment caliber.
Salvador Dali - Isolation
The Way They Nailed Getty Museum Challenge
Especially the little kid looks like a painting.
Load More Replies...I love that the baby is having a good time in the recreated version. the original is not a pretty picture.
That dude is in shape! No, I have no point, I was just surprised for some dumb reason.
In the original, is he BITING the baby? Ugh. Pretty good job though...
In the original he is eating the baby. Chronos was reputed to have eaten his children.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda also previously spoke to the Getty Museum’s team to learn more about the challenge and the huge number of submissions they’ve gotten. Annelisa Stephan, assistant director for digital content strategy at the Getty, told us that they have “lost count" of all the photos that people have sent them. According to her, the submissions number "many thousands."
"In addition to the ones posted publicly, there have been hundreds and hundreds more DM'd to us! We didn't expect such a reaction in our wildest dreams—we thought a few people might enjoy the activity, but it clearly struck a chord!" Annelisa revealed.
"People have been so creative and so supportive of other people's creations, cheering them on, laughing, and celebrating their favorites. We've received creative responses from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia,” she said. “We've also been thrilled to see kids of all ages getting into the act, and high school teachers organizing their art history students to incorporate the challenge into their classwork. It's a great way to look at and learn about art while being creative with constraints."
Recreation Of Pablo Picasso's Painting "A Women With A Bird"
I also did a double-take, my brain was very confused
Load More Replies...My Contribution To The Getty Challenge. The Birth Of Venus By Botticelli
Aaaaaahahaha the curtain rod. "I saw it in the window and just had to have it"
Except that "Venus's" left shoulder isn't dislocated.
Load More Replies...Lady 1-Ply, Keeper Of Non-Perishables And Protector Of The Soap
In the original, the lady looks like she is holding an empty tube folded up, the recreation, the lady has a full toilet roll. PERFECT!
Another Getty representative told Bored Panda that the museum is always developing new online resources. One of the newest additions was a video of the Getty’s "wonderful but now-shuttered Michelangelo exhibitions."
The Getty is still closed because of the coronavirus, however, the museum is helping its local community out. In fact, the Getty donated thousands of gloves and hundreds of masks to UCLA Health to help out doctors and nurses fighting Covid-19. Since then, the museum is looking for new ways to help both the local and global communities.
Happy To Share The Result Of Our New Experiment, The Three Day Online Workshop #tobeamuseathome That Was Streemed Last Week
Our Take On The DIY Classic Art Challenge
Maybe it IS a severed head. Quarantine can cause tension when you can't social distance. The wife may have lost it.
Load More Replies...Now that looks a little too realistic. Should we call the police?
‘Woman In Biscuits’ Recreation From Gustav Klimt's ‘Woman In Gold’ By Julia Timoshkova
Yes, There’s A Person In There
I know, right - now I want to be a balloon animal for Halloween
Load More Replies...Frida Quarantine
I think the original is a Xoloitzcuintle but the Chinese Crested is a good stand-in.
Load More Replies...Getty Museum Challange
I think that’s the beauty, using a phone instead a book, flipflop instead of polished shoes, its quarantine time, i think its nice to contrast the contexts
Load More Replies...Love This Challenge. I Live By Myself So I Had To Set Set A 10s Timer And Run Into Position
I believe that's a paper lantern , the kind you hang outside. And I agree with you 100%
Load More Replies...My Wife’s Getty Museum Challenge
love it!! is that empty toilet paper rolls in her hair?? Nice addition...love the "flowers", dress..everything
sigh~~~~~~what beutiful ................................toilet paper
Getty Museum Challange
Nice to see he has garlic and rubber gloves, but where is his mask!
Getty Challenge - Frida Kahlo
Missing the unibrow and the mustache, but the cleaning products and thermometer are great!
My Cousin Did One Of Those Art Recreations
I especially love the Flying Nun style cornette made from manila folders. Lol.
My Sister In-Law's Getty Museum Challenge. Innocence By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Both the mother and the baby's faces really really look like the painting!
"The Scream" By Edvard Munch. Right: A Recreation By Jean-Luc Walraff
This came out of our carrot bag just like this. No tools necessary. Nature's "Scream"! E11741D0-A...084c70.jpg
I never realized the Scream guy was actually Mt Potatohead! It makes so much more sense—-and on so many more levels—-now
My Dad's Getty Museum Challenge; Saturn Devouring His Son By Goya
This picture used to hang in the Prado Museum in Spain . When it was a gray day my mom used to take us there for a wander. This one used to scare the bejesus out of me!! EVERY time.
Original shows Saturn looking sad and disturbed at what he's doing. In the recreation the guy looks like he's relishing his act. Otherwise, awesome job!
My friend's father had a repro of this hanging in his study as a warning to any kids that dared to disturb him. It worked. My friend, her siblings, and at least I never dared to disturb him in the slightest. Wasn't worried he would eat me. I worried he would make me look at that picture. Shuddddder.
My Friend And I Recreated This Abstract Peice With Items In Our Kitchen/Living Room
Apparently they had neither -- they did a great job with what they did have, though!
Load More Replies...One does not simply call a Yamaha portatone with limited midi implementation an "Item"
Sorry, but this just looks like you emptied the junk cupboard.
Ceci N'est Pas Un Homm
Caesar At The Rubicon (Dog With A Plate Of Sausages) By Wilhelm Trübner vs. Masya At The Rubicon
Picasso - “Dora Maar”
Perfect in every detail. She can't help it if she doesn't have two noses and foreheads. Fabulous recreation.
...another stunning Picasso parody! I’m picturing Bugle snacks dipped in red for fingernails as a nice addition.
This is the second Picasso recreation and I'm amazed by both of them.
Gustav Klimt , Hygieia. C1900. (Ft Doggy Leash)
she got the sense of body attitude very well, and the cable for the curvilinear line is great!
Do you think that is a rubber snake she has wiggling up to her neck?
the light situation could use some fancy glitter and more steam ... it´s a wow
Les Amoureux - Magritte
they are probably married or live together....
Load More Replies...The easiest, but timely and nearly exact, right down to the background scenery.
Cosy And Clean Quarantaine
My Husband And Son Recreated Ilya Repin’s “Ivan The Terrible And His Son Ivan”
Boy With A Basket Of Fruits
"Woman Ironing" By Pablo Picasso. Right: A Recreation By Hazel Hayes
Getty Museum Challange
“The Son Of Man” René Magritte
Me And The Wife Trying To Make A Supper Party Out Of Our Quarantine
I would hope so considering social distancing :P
Load More Replies...Girl With A Pearl Earring, Covid Style. Nurse Submission For The Getty Museum Challenge
These are easier to do at home - but when your at work and have a pretty face and pearl earring - amazing! xxx
Getty Museum Challange
It is worth to notice that the real model posing to this painting in fact DID pose in bathtub. (Also, she went very ill after lying through hours in cold water and never made fully recovery. Poor Elizabeth Siddal, she deserved better.)
I love Ophelia, both your recreation and the character she is inspired by
Color of her hair and clothing reflecting off the white tub
Load More Replies...“Black Beauty” By Fongwei Liu As “Quarantined Black Beauty"
The shimmer of their shoulders is such a beautiful phrase
Load More Replies...Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Magdalene As Melancholy
Is It Lunch Time Already?
I Recreated "Woman In A Fish Hat" By Picasso For Getty Museum's Recreation Contest
Ugly Renaissance Baby
Our Entry: Psyche Opening The Door Into Cupid's Garden By John William Waterhouse
Does This Count?
Getty Museum Challenge: Safie By William Clarke Wontner
Stay In!
Portrait Of Joseph Roulin
“The Milkmaid” Johannes Vermeer
Untitled Eugene Von Blaas (With Quarantine Essentials)
American Covid
Famous Painting Recreation "Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses" By John William Waterhouse
excellent positioning - first time I noticed there was a mirror in that painting
Suspicious Van Gogh Getty Museum Thingy (Me)
Getty Museum Challange
Getty Museum Challenge
My Take At Modern Art
Von Wittkamp’s “Black Cat On A Chair” | My “Fat Cat On A Chair”
great take -- but have to say, all these re-enactments make me work harder to appreciate the paintings.
My Take On Rosie The Riveter
Girl With A Pearl Earring
forget about the kid's face, look at the cat's face in the first one
Load More Replies...Elvgren's Smoke Screen, As Recreated By Me
Cat And Paste
Getty Museum Challenge
“Self Portrait” By Joseph Ducreux
My Contribution To The Getty Museum Challenge. I Present To You The Death Of Escobar By Botero
Easy On That Paper Peeps!
Getty Challenge : Astronomer By Candlelight De L'artiste Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
Fredric Leighton - Flaming June
Getty Museum Challange
Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses - John William Waterhouse
Getty Museum Challenge Of "The Kiss" With My Lady Friend. Masks Added For Pandemic Effect
Getty Museum Challenge
“Untitled Film Still #3” By Cindy Sherman
Lady With An Ermine, Leonardo Da Vinci (C. Covid-19)
It Has Become A Family Affair
My Brother- He Calls It The Covid Guitarist
I was wondering if someone would notice! Yes I'm kinda drunk but even I know what that is!
Load More Replies...Getty Museum Challange
The composition of the re-creation is even better than the original painting’s, imo
Agosto Pallavicini
Guys, all of those reproductions were started as a Covid19 quarantine challenge, and they are made by simple people and posted in public group of Facebook - Izolyaciya. Here is the link - https://m.facebook.com/groups/2536037569978845. Please use the correct information
Sorry, correct name of the group is Izoizolyaciya. The name is in Russian, means - Art Isolation.
Load More Replies...With all the drinking happening around the world right now, we could do a whole Jackson Pollock show in a few days....
Loved them all! I am continuously amazed at the imagination and humour that some people have. I don' think I could ever come up with anything close to these!
Guys, all of those reproductions were started as a Covid19 quarantine challenge, and they are made by simple people and posted in public group of Facebook - Izolyaciya. Here is the link - https://m.facebook.com/groups/2536037569978845. Please use the correct information
Sorry, correct name of the group is Izoizolyaciya. The name is in Russian, means - Art Isolation.
Load More Replies...With all the drinking happening around the world right now, we could do a whole Jackson Pollock show in a few days....
Loved them all! I am continuously amazed at the imagination and humour that some people have. I don' think I could ever come up with anything close to these!
