Museums Ask People To Recreate Famous Paintings At Home, Get 30 More Hilarious Pics
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People 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
Mona Lisa
Girl With The Purrl Earring
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
Salvador Dali - Isolation
Absolutely fantastic . If this were a competition, we have the winner.
The fellow is the star here, hilarious. Woman’s head needs tilting centre about 20%
I was eating a sandwich when I looked at this. Almost gasped my last. this is brilliantly funny!
I've just noticed that Dalí apparently painted this in 2016. He had an alter ego name too.
the snail is saying "how many MORE weeks of lockdown and sexual deviance must i put up with from her indoors.........
For anyone who might be thinking this painting is from Salvador Dali; it's not. I did a lot of research into Dali, saw most of his work and can tell right away this is not his. This is actually by the artist "Nikola Golubovski", and his name is also in the bottom-right corner of the painting. See the same painting mentioning the artist here: https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-salvador-dali-and-gala/150107/3193370/view.
Again, I'm so impressed by how people used household items to recreate the art.
Dali is hysterical, watching bored people recreating in their living room...
Recreating art....and the name of this piece by Dali..."Isolation" might bring out a little kookiness
I saw the paining and was like: how the heck does one copy that, I saw the picture and was like: how the heck is it so awesome!
The first thing that comes to mind is”Wow, she’s going to hurt him bad “ 😂
The Way They Nailed Getty Museum Challenge
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"
My Contribution To The Getty Challenge. The Birth Of Venus By Botticelli
Lady 1-Ply, Keeper Of Non-Perishables And Protector Of The Soap
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
‘Woman In Biscuits’ Recreation From Gustav Klimt's ‘Woman In Gold’ By Julia Timoshkova
Yes, There’s A Person In There
Frida Quarantine
Getty Museum Challange
Love This Challenge. I Live By Myself So I Had To Set Set A 10s Timer And Run Into Position
My Wife’s Getty Museum Challenge
Getty Museum Challange
Getty Challenge - Frida Kahlo
My Cousin Did One Of Those Art Recreations
My Sister In-Law's Getty Museum Challenge. Innocence By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
"The Scream" By Edvard Munch. Right: A Recreation By Jean-Luc Walraff
My Dad's Getty Museum Challenge; Saturn Devouring His Son By Goya
My Friend And I Recreated This Abstract Peice With Items In Our Kitchen/Living Room
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”
Gustav Klimt , Hygieia. C1900. (Ft Doggy Leash)
Les Amoureux - Magritte
Cosy And Clean Quarantaine
Note: this post originally had 77 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
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.
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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!
After listening to all the dismal news on TV today, this was just the "re-set" I needed to view before going to sleep...perhaps no nightmares after all!
"Do you like my Klimt?" "Yes, and I like the picture too." All were so creative.
some of them look like they took a long time to create but all were great
All excellent but the girl with the pearl earring is best! From a cat lover.
Love the spirit that went into creating each of these. Bravo, and thanks for the much-needed laughs!
This should be made into a book. It would look wonderful on my coffee table!
another shining example that we can be seriously funny and healthy with a sickly twist for Flavour.
Love all the creativity! A pure joy to see talented people embracing and recreating art!!!
brilliant work, all of them -- somehow "American Gothic" sticks in my mind; well done everyone
These are just clever and brilliantly composed images. I loved viewing them.
Has anyone seen this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3KJ2DhL93cS5GMrDGWSqVJ4/what-happened-when-greg-james-recreated-a-painting-from-1866-live-on-radio-1
I didn't know this was a thing and I've done 2 portraits with my 5 year old in the last week - Frida Kahlo and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
...BRAVO to all! This was awesome! Well done and very creative!
circa 1984.... my husband and I on our first date.... Screen-Sho...60-png.jpg 
Love it! What a great idea. I hope you can keep it going long enough for me to try a few ideas. Mike McK
Such a good job by each participant. What a great day-brightener.
Really great! Amazing how many creative people there are. I would never have believed this project would have inspired so many people.
Not a bad one in the bunch! I was sad to come to the end of the viewing! Thank you.... this is a wonderful diversion from our world today.
Clever and Creative. However, I personally felt that the artwork played stronger suggestions of character/feeling than the recreations.
I did this! I recreated the last supper, and replaced the people with plush dinosaurs
As long as the intent is to apologize for the comment, accepted
Load More Replies... 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!
After listening to all the dismal news on TV today, this was just the "re-set" I needed to view before going to sleep...perhaps no nightmares after all!
"Do you like my Klimt?" "Yes, and I like the picture too." All were so creative.
some of them look like they took a long time to create but all were great
All excellent but the girl with the pearl earring is best! From a cat lover.
Love the spirit that went into creating each of these. Bravo, and thanks for the much-needed laughs!
This should be made into a book. It would look wonderful on my coffee table!
another shining example that we can be seriously funny and healthy with a sickly twist for Flavour.
Love all the creativity! A pure joy to see talented people embracing and recreating art!!!
brilliant work, all of them -- somehow "American Gothic" sticks in my mind; well done everyone
These are just clever and brilliantly composed images. I loved viewing them.
Has anyone seen this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3KJ2DhL93cS5GMrDGWSqVJ4/what-happened-when-greg-james-recreated-a-painting-from-1866-live-on-radio-1
I didn't know this was a thing and I've done 2 portraits with my 5 year old in the last week - Frida Kahlo and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
...BRAVO to all! This was awesome! Well done and very creative!
circa 1984.... my husband and I on our first date.... Screen-Sho...60-png.jpg
Love it! What a great idea. I hope you can keep it going long enough for me to try a few ideas. Mike McK
Such a good job by each participant. What a great day-brightener.
Really great! Amazing how many creative people there are. I would never have believed this project would have inspired so many people.
Not a bad one in the bunch! I was sad to come to the end of the viewing! Thank you.... this is a wonderful diversion from our world today.
Clever and Creative. However, I personally felt that the artwork played stronger suggestions of character/feeling than the recreations.
I did this! I recreated the last supper, and replaced the people with plush dinosaurs
As long as the intent is to apologize for the comment, accepted
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