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Museums Ask People To Recreate Famous Paintings With Anything They Can Find At Home, Get 35 Hilarious Pics
Even though most of us are stuck at home and can’t go out and enjoy art in museums, that doesn’t mean that life is boring or uncultured. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (or the Getty for short) challenged people to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite classic paintings from the safety of their homes.
The Getty’s fans responded with a lot of enthusiasm to their internet challenge and flooded social media with their unique artistic interpretations. We’ve collected some of the best recreations of famous paintings, so scroll down and feast your eyes. Don’t forget to upvote your faves and share which ones you loved best, dear Readers.
People are having a lot of fun becoming beautiful paintings, but this isn’t the first time folks have done this. In fact, the Getty Museum challenge was inspired by an Instagram account from Amsterdam called Tussen Kunst en Quarantaine (aka Between Art and Quarantine). So be sure to check them out as well. However, the Getty isn't the only art museum doing a challenge like this. The Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine, also challenged the art community to reproduce their fave oil paintings from their art collection by taking part in the #mystetstvovdoma or #artathome challenge. Check out our post about the Pinchuk Art Centre's challenge right here.
More info: Getty.edu | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | PinchukArtCentre.org
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Robert Robi Z 5 years ago
The right picture could have easily been an oil painting (at the first moment I thought it was)
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Dianna Siever 5 years ago
They did really well! Look at the round thing in the center, the chandelier, the window, the red furniture. I really love it!
Anneloes Officier 5 years ago
Hi there, this is not Getty's challenge but www.instagram.com/tussenkunstenquarantaine 's started it with all home working people in the Netherlands. The museums just adopted the idea en joined in on us. Credit where credit is due please <3 And stay safe.
The rules of the Getty challenge are very simple: you have to choose your favorite work of art, then pick 3 things lying around your home, and then recreate the art with those things. It sounds hard with only 3 things, but some people are using them very creatively.
Bored Panda reached out to the Getty to hear more about the museum's challenge and the number of submissions they've gotten.
According to Annelisa Stephan, assistant director for digital content strategy at the Getty, they've "lost count" of all the photos that people have submitted to them. She says that they 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!" she said.
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RitaGG 5 years ago
Wish I could show you a picture of mine. I've got an original, sitting in a Bose docking station. I use it to play music for my dog when I leave. The music on it is old!!! LOL.
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Slinkman 5 years ago
Did not know the painting, but i find her expression funny as hell XD so proud of appareantly being in a fight :p
Ximena Aldana 5 years ago
That girl look so proud of her black eye, that I can't imagine how she left the other guy...
Susann Campbell 5 years ago (edited)
Read my other post and you will find out.
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Doris Stone 5 years ago
Well they weren’t so corrupt as now but really hardworking the rest in isolation in jails. Today it worships corruption plus money and miscreants
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Martina Třešková 5 years ago
There are filters that do that. Although this one seems to be done more professionally.
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Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I'm curious if they're all his dogs or did he borrow from friends or neighbors? Love the touch of the cat painting.
Ryan McGuire 5 years ago
These are all my friend's dogs. I had to photograph each dog independently and then combine all the images together. Lots of work and dog treats, but lots of fun too!
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"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. 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," Annelisa shared the museum's enthusiasm at the reaction the challenge has gotten.
According to representatives at the Getty, the museum is continually developing new online resources. In fact, later on today, the Getty will be posting a video of their "wonderful but now-shuttered Michelangelo exhibitions."
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jevais 5 years ago
Puritain USA People are shocked by a nipple, not with Kids with real fire arms!? I'll never understand this very strange country. Do you People not know that even women breastfeed their babies like all mammals? A nipple is not a disgusting part of a woman's body. Get over it and grow up.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
It's American prudishness. It's fine to show how someone gets disembowled or beheaded. No problem with slow motion scenes of how guts are scattered to the wall in a firefight. But never, not ever dare you try to show an exposed woman's nipple. Meantime the US is the largest producer of XXX sex movies.
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AlanandLeila Hoyt 5 years ago
Breastfeeding is beautiful. I am currently breastfeeding my 4th child,. He is 2 weeks old. When I am old, and dying, these will be my fondest memories.
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Bob Beltcher 5 years ago
American Gothic. It's supposed to be a man and his daughter. Everyone thinks it's husband and wife but it's not.
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Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
saw that picture years ago in ROBLOX Homestead! *looks back at life and sighs*
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
yes, yellow dishwashing gloves would be safer and work with the pic
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Love the post-its. Gets the award for best use of paper products.
The Getty’s social media lead, Sarah Waldorf, told Yahoo Lifestyle that the museum’s social media inboxes have been “flooded” with re-creations of masterpieces ever since they announced the challenge on Wednesday, last week.
“Our audience told us loud and clear that they wanted to see beautiful artworks, learn more about art from home, and find delight on social media,” Waldorf said. “We wanted to offer up a creative challenge to find refuge from the uncertain state of the world and to spark excitement to get creative—no extra materials required.”
The Getty is closed because of the coronavirus, however, the museum is helping out as much as it can. A week ago, the Getty donated thousands of gloves and hundreds of masks to UCLA Health to help out medical professionals on the frontlines in the fight against the illness. Since the museum donated its entire supply of protective equipment, it continues to look for ways it can be helpful both to the local and global communities.
Are you up for the art challenge, dear Pandas? What’s your favorite work of art that you’d like to recreate? Are you planning to take part in the Getty’s social media challenge? Let us know in the comments below.
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Sherri Quesenberry 5 years ago
As always...nothing quite like furbabies - Golden & Haloed one & ALL!
Melissa Green 5 years ago
This is blasphemy terrible!!!!!! Have some respect for the Christian community, the people of God and Take this down please!!
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Hermione Granger 5 years ago
1. The dog is adorable! 2. That painting is actually really good!
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Uhum, not quite as innocent and a little more self-conscious. That would go for most of us.
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Bea Moeller 5 years ago
I'd like to figure some kind of extra award for ambition and cooperation!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
'The Flower Carrier', 1935, by Diego Rivera. I have a print of 'The Flower Seller', it is a lovely painting. www.DiegoRivera.org
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
on the left, it looks like flowers, while on the right looks like towels folded to look like roses
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Kat Khatib 5 years ago
Yikes. It looks like he's carrying a basket full of Corona virus in the Original Painting. The recreation looks like brains or entrails. Is it just me??
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Karen Lyon 5 years ago
Wait! This is my sister and brother-in-law's house! Red wine, the Simpsons, and the LA Dodgers. All his favorites!!
Laura Roberts 5 years ago
Ok, I want this person telling stories using found objects! Would be entertaining.
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Charlotte 5 years ago
That's how they did it. Dunked a kitten in white paint, then splatted it on his top.
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Tania Woods 5 years ago
Now are those black trousers painted white or white trousers painted with black?
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
They're dark wash blue jeans painted white :)
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Shan Millan 5 years ago (edited)
Hermione : I chose this painting in particular precisely because I play the harp so it was easier ;)
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I like this a lot. Not a photographer but the overexposure of the photo is absolutely brilliant
Erica Proulx 5 years ago
Not to mention the placement of the pillows...it’s absolutely spot on
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mntryjoseph 5 years ago
LOL I was thinking about "The Partridge Family" as soon as I saw this!
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Rebecah Ozuna 5 years ago
And stupid of me was going to ask the why of the water............duh!
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"she may be an old hag, but she is his Mother!" Mr. Bean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaB62torng
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This movie was filmed many years before the present corona epidemic...
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I suppose it took Whistler awfully lot of time to paint that little girl, as wee can see on the painting above...
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Or a surgical mask? But this allows us to escape thinking about the virus for a few minutes.
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Myriam Abelson 5 years ago (edited)
They're not "checking out" his nipple. It's St. Thomas examining the wounds from the passion of Jesus Christ.
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L.j. Bus 5 years ago
It’s a common anxiety medication, so perfect for 2020 today I guess
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I have a large picture of this painting. The astronomer has no beard but very long hair falling over his shoulder. This tiny picture doesn't do justice to the painting .
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Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
Those eye bags. Unless it's makeup looks good.
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Leslie Dick 5 years ago
Found it! Still-life: Tea Set, Jean-Etienne Liotard
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Rebecah Ozuna 5 years ago
Acceptance to all, except for people like me. The people of my street still think that an introvert is a type of freak as well as being a virgin at 40 without a husband and kids is veeery abnormal. But they support and love the son of one of them who's an addict and a thief.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I'm proud to be a virgin at 42. Tell them to fluff off. My family complains about my life even though I don't have a bunch of kids, haven't resorted to prostitution, not on welfare, etc. We all don't have to be sluts, addicts, thieves, etc to enjoy life. I too am waiting for the right man to me.
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Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
I flipped it for you but BP won't let me post it.
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Phoebe Rosquist 5 years ago
I love the symmetry, and how the original is giving the newcomer side eye. One of those "mistakes" that turned out better than the intended result.
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Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
are the blue sleeves suppose to represent the sky? I don't get that part.
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Ashley Maurer 5 years ago
Baymax just chillin lookin like he's staring off in the distance thinkin bout stuff
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LUCY BALDWIN 5 years ago
I don't know if that's actually a garden. If those are primroses, they come up EVERYWHERE (where I live, at least).
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Louise Stange-Wahl 5 years ago
Well done! We don't have too many green spots here in Central NM except for golf courses!
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Louise Stange-Wahl 5 years ago
I thought the same thing about the dress. Very cool, but certainly not in my closet!
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Susann Campbell 5 years ago
Perfect for yesterday and today but I would need a loaf of Italian bread and some fruit with this.
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Laura Roberts 5 years ago
Puppers did not understand this was not a smiling photo. It’s okay! 😊
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago
You can buy one for fairly cheap. They're great for kitchens/ offices if you need a clock in a room but don't have wall space for one.
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago (edited)
I am continually stunned and bewildered about what people put out as modern art. My kids do this even when I insist they don't! And then they complain that all of their Play-Doh is one weird brown color.
Louise Stange-Wahl 5 years ago
Yeah, and I bet someone with more money than sense, paid a fortune for the Pile o' Playdoh!
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Laura Roberts 5 years ago
People are not appreciating the sweetheart neckline on this beautiful puppers!
Susann Campbell 5 years ago
Maybe they don't understand what a sweetheart neckline is.
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
In the next "Purge" movie, they['re going to be hijacking trucks of t.p.
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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
The woman in the painting has too small of a head. You did a good job but you don't have a pinhead.
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Laura Roberts 5 years ago
Without the background, this was a very good attempt. I can understand not wanting to edit though.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Editing it would not fulfill the requirements of the challenge. I think she did great!
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago (edited)
The painting is Lady With An Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci - 1489/1490. Ermines are in the ferret family, and were/are raised for their fur for coats as it is very very soft and brilliantly white. There was a trend at the time of the painting amongst wealthy ladies to have one as a pet.
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Cheri Baird 5 years ago
Great idea! Making art is a fantastic way to get your mind off the pandemic for awhile.
Linda Tapia 5 years ago
I liked the way some people seized the opportunity to comment on the originals. Warhol's soup cans, the gramophone to cell phone of His Master's Voice :-)
Lamb Taylor 5 years ago
Great idea! keep up the quality!! It's going to be difficult to beat that doggy.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Nice work, but too many copies were looking at the camera instead of copying the original.
Cheri Baird 5 years ago
Great idea! Making art is a fantastic way to get your mind off the pandemic for awhile.
Linda Tapia 5 years ago
I liked the way some people seized the opportunity to comment on the originals. Warhol's soup cans, the gramophone to cell phone of His Master's Voice :-)
Lamb Taylor 5 years ago
Great idea! keep up the quality!! It's going to be difficult to beat that doggy.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Nice work, but too many copies were looking at the camera instead of copying the original.
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