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Ever since last December, people have been entertaining themselves by participating in an open community project called "Take a photo of the Rembrandt type".
The project’s feed on Vk.com already has more than 300 submissions, featuring people’s best attempts at replicating famous works of Classic Art. The best part is, it’s not just limited to Rembrandt’s art! Some of the entrants manage to reproduce the atmosphere of the masterpieces with meticulous detail, and many use humor as well.
Scroll down the page and take a look at the best attempts of finding or creating a likeness between art and reality!
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Leneth Cayongcong 6 years ago
wonder if she was the real subject of this artwork when this was painted centuries ago
Pan Narrans 6 years ago
I was like "this is a brilliant idea" and immediately scrolled down to find the Peter Paul Rubens paintings. None! Are Rubenesque figures out of vogue???
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Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
It's beautiful and well done, but to me, the expression is quite different.
Basil 6 years ago
I think it's the extreme difference between the eye and chin shapes that are making it appear that way. Can't do much about that.
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Janice Seagraves 6 years ago
Amazing. I thought the photo with the real woman was a painting, too.
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FanDaPanda 6 years ago
Thank goodness for that tho right?! :) the worlds a better place with that little button nose in it!
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Basil 6 years ago
I just don't like this one- a matter of personal taste. I like the sketch-like quality of the original and the recreation feels a little too soft and pretty in comparison. I also feel like the colors are too dark. Obviously they can't and maybe should't be exact copies but I feel like a choice was made to make it prettier- her facial expression is softer too, the snake is less ugly and it's smaller and blends in more- even the fruit is more physically attractive. I just don't like this interpretation.
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Kaisu Rei 6 years ago
I didn't think cats like the one in the painting existed and they just had never seen a cat when they painted it, but I guess I was wrong
Stefano Aprea 6 years ago (edited)
Enjoy this! https://www.boredpanda.com/ugly-medieval-cats-art/
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Reilly Beryll 6 years ago
That painting looks like the physical form of the word “nyoop”. “I must nyoop my stretchy kitty body!!”
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Kaisu Rei 6 years ago
This is an amazing recreation and the lady as Judith is really gorgeous!
HANS 6 years ago
Prompted by her mother, Herodias, who was infuriated by John's condemnation of her marriage, the girl demanded the head of John the Baptist on a platter, and the unwilling Herod was forced by his oath to have John beheaded. Salome took the platter with John's head and gave it to her mother.
Broderick Pruitt 6 years ago
Loraine Bobbit was content with just cutting off one’s male pride.
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Basil 6 years ago
I think the use of the gauzy material was a great idea but I think even acid-wash frayed jean shorts would have been a better choice for the bottoms. I don't really get that. Ultimately it's the expression that is totally wrong though. The leg is bent incorrectly, and the figure in the painting is not making direct eye contact, which seems crucial to me. In a simple piece like this, I think those details matter.
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Basil 6 years ago
The head wrap bothers me because it is such a different material and lit so differently (possibly to hide that fact somewhat). It's not bad otherwise, though the expression is very off, starting with the head tilt/angle. I believe the face in the original has more tension in it- that can be interpreted by people in many different ways. Fear, longing, weariness, anxiety, whatever. The modern model looks overall relaxed but trying to mimic the original's face. Not quite the same thing, imo.
Roger Haywood 6 years ago
I think the left picture she needs to look just slightly more surprised, then it would be freakishly accurate.
Bluebell Rizzi 6 years ago
Susannah Harker looked exactly like that painting when she played in Pride And Prejudice
Enomfon Asuquo 6 years ago
Don't know why you were disliked cause it's true. Tried to even it out.
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Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago (edited)
Not quite, that’s a hard one even Scarjo had to ne Photoshopped
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I like this, even though it's not as literal a copy as some of the others - it's good in its own right.
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Dorina Ferhati 6 years ago
This is a project by an Albanian photographer, who recreated famous paintings with Autistic children. Simply wonderful❤️
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Does anyone else see a skull image on the right? Other than that, adorable pic!
Helen Leontieva 6 years ago
Look of the dog from the right more similar to the look of the girls from the left ))
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12 Badgers in a Suit 6 years ago
The one on the left is looking at the viewer. The one on the right isn't. Otherwise, very similar.
Alex Bailey 6 years ago
Constantly cropping up in my family. Know a lot of red heads in other families.
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Roger Haywood 6 years ago
Top pic: Hey Fred, you got a bullet hole there. Bottom pic: Never mind, it's gone now.
Enomfon Asuquo 6 years ago
Edit: ?Hey *Jesus*, you got a bullet hole there... :)
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diane a 6 years ago
Great lighting - they should have photoshopped half the guys finger off though - lol
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Yes, it's cool to see the different interpretations.
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Dorothy Parker 6 years ago (edited)
Well done. Even colored the syphon. The hair is great, the painting in the back. Unfortunately, in the recreation she has an actual elbow.
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Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
This made me laugh out loud and not exaggerating. I LOLed at my desk. Thank you.
Load More Replies... Alex Bailey 6 years ago
Ooh a tough one... if only Margate was on the list!
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Great Panda Mamu 6 years ago
I didn't know that recreating paintings was such a big thing, much less that someone would go to so much effort to make the dress. And, one presumes, more outfits for their studio. Interesting gimmick/theme for the studio, though.
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diane a 6 years ago
The original little girl was 5/6 in this picture - she died following childbirth age 21
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BusLady 6 years ago
Both girls are thinking "How much longer do I have to stand still like this?"
diane a 6 years ago
there is loads of paintings of her on the internet - Las Malinas? - all by Velasquez - court painter
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Here is one they made the poor original child wear earlier margarita-...a682a8.jpg 
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
I often wonder how the hell women and girls walked in those ridiculous dresses!
diane a 6 years ago
Original - Diego Velasquez 1656 - Infanta Theresa Maria of Spain. Here is something else they made that poor child wear to get painted in margarita-...c347ef.jpg 
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Anouk 6 years ago
Maybe they didn't have a brush small enough to blur that out *snerk*
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Erica Cottrell 6 years ago
I wish I could add a pic here... my daughters did an amazing recreation.
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Sphynx cat is a perfect stand-in for an ermine! They're so cute in their own way.
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Great Panda Mamu 6 years ago
I like these where you can tell that they're just doing it on a whim. It seems more relatable, I guess.
Basil 6 years ago
Well not everyone can pull off that "homeless child on the streets selling ribbons for sustenance" look perfectly.
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Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
Expressions are off, but very well done. Why is this not up above the animal photos and kids in the tub?!
Basil 6 years ago
Because this is super try-hard, self serious photoshopped to death instagram-bait and the animal and kid photos are lighthearted spur of the moment bits of fluff not meant to be take seriously?
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TheKnightOwl 6 years ago
My thoughts exactly, are we really that precious these days?
Load More Replies... Just another bot 6 years ago
Can all museums PLEASE cover up all the nudes' privates immediately, this Da Vinci person should be banned, this is an advanced society for God sake
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
Bored Panda must believe all its users are under five years old and must be protected from a sketch of human anatomy.
Ildiko Okido 6 years ago
While those five year olds and younger care the least about nudity. It’s perfectly natural to them.
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HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 6 years ago
Something that was on front of plenty of schoolbooks is getting censored, really?.
Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
I suppose I'm the only one that thinks it looks like she's being flushed.
Dzintra Kalnina 6 years ago (edited)
We're going more Puritan instead of open-minded. These projects show human thinking throughout the ages, and sometimes it's eye-opening. We can't look at schematic genitalia? It will damage our fragile minds? Yet we have artificial boob and camelhoof enlargement bombardment on- and off-line. Hypocrits.
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Flowering Panda 6 years ago
Thinking about how to dodge a party they've planned for the next year.
Basil 6 years ago
I don't know if you're talking about the person in the original or in the recreation, but either way I'm guessing you are saying the gender doesn't match in a way you deem acceptable, to which I will respond: I don't remember voting you head of the gender police. So buzz off.
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Olivia Matovich 6 years ago
The lady on the right looks like her chin is attached to her hand...
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
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Basil 6 years ago
So, it appears this person altered the original painting- tinted it green, cropped it, brightened it maybe, which is MAJORLY UNCOOL. The original is plenty creep on its own. All the guys work is kind of creepy, check it out. This person clearly didn't get WHAT is creepy about it. They messed up the colors and shadows, for one. The original's cheery pink juxtaposed with the black shadows (and shapes that look like fractured glass) are what make it creepy- the innocent against the sinister. And the recreation is also framed very poorly. The small figure is supposed to take up very little of the frame and be in the darkness in the original. In the recreation, she has made herself the focal point, literally- the light is centered on her. But in the painting the figure is made to look small and vulnerable next to the huge jagged bush, and also she's darkly lit and strange looking- a source of creepiness too. These juxtapositions are what makes the painting creepy- not basic goth stuff.
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Basil 6 years ago
To all of those making the tongue in cheek joke about which is worse: wanna be slamma-jammaed by REALITY?? The original is called The Apotheosis of War by Vasily Vereshchagin, finished in 1871. He was a Russian war artist, meaning he traveled with various Russian armies and painted/drew what he saw as a way to witness and record what it was like (a common thing in many countries, including US, UK, etc). When he finished this painting he dedicated it " . . . to all great conquerors, past, present and to come." which was pretty sassy. He was known for being brutally honest in his depictions of what he saw and it often got him in a lot of trouble, this painting especially was banned from being viewed and lots of his art was controversial and ultimately banned from being reproduced. He was a brave guy and very well known in his day. So . . . that might make you think about this picture differently. Artistic license and all, but still . . . yikes.
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Reilly Beryll 6 years ago
The cat in the painting looks like a living shadow entity ready to exact its revenge against the child that holds it back.
Dzintra Kalnina 6 years ago
Oh my good! There is hardly any similarity. But the obese animal directs your attention away from that fact.
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Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
Fun and clever. And the copied guns...genius. I really enjoyed this one.
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Kaisu Rei 6 years ago
Art student life, what you think it is like and what it actually is like
Alex Bailey 6 years ago
Not being able to finish a pizza!!! The horror of it...
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Me just after completing an assignment that is due for the past three weeks within a couple of hours before the deadline.
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Parmeisan 6 years ago
This is fascinating because that woman is clearly not attempting to recreate the painting. If she were, she would not be wearing the several necklaces, she would not be sitting beside those leaves, and most likely she would have her hand in the image. So who randomly had a photograph of a woman in a fancy dress with such a similar face and hair??
Lea S. 6 years ago
They were using it as inspiration and decided to add their own spin. I don't think it's up to you to decide what the were trying to do.
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LightofDay 6 years ago
Except that nothing about the recreation matches the original.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
Why the vines? It appears it may have been for a different painting entirely, and then they couldn't find it again.
Victoria Kim 6 years ago
What I like is that her facial expression is so right on! Many models cannot manage that feature.
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Basil 6 years ago
Let me sincerely answer this. (Lol.) For one, the woman in the original is fairly unattractive with a very high forehead and thinning hair. That's not the creep factor though, that just adds to it. The creep factor is, the body proportions are hugely uncanny valley here, for reason unknown. Her hands, arms, and torso are also massive compared to her head size. And I'm not talking about in relation to weight- the frame size doesn't match at ALL. Also, try to visualize her head and neck placement if the head cover thing was removed: that would be one looong neck (or a shorter neck with some sort of a hunch- not the pointed part of cloak obvs, but the long slope that still exists under it) connecting her small head to a pair of very broad and heavy shoulders. And that head would be covered with pale-blonde thinning, balding hair. On a browless, otherwise fairly young, sharp featured woman, who on top of that looks fairly obese on that large frame. IT'S UNSETTLING.
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Basil 6 years ago
Me drinking at 21 not pictured, cause I was out partying (mildly). Top pic was me drinking at 31. I predict bottom pic will be me at 41, like my husband was.
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Mark À Irvine 6 years ago
clearly, it took the person recreating the painting in the photo a little to long setting things up ...
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Roger Haywood 6 years ago
I was thinking that myself. Nice interpretation tho.
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Basil 6 years ago
Also gonna comment on the POST since that's what we're supposed to be HERE FOR. I think she nailed the facial expression, but I gotta ask: what do you do with the custom background now that the photoshoot is over? Is this a thing photo studios provide now? Lol.
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Corseted and uncorseted, meaning many more layers
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Flowering Panda 6 years ago
Me trying to look somewhere else after seeing an acquaintance in public.
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Lorraine R 6 years ago
But if you look closely you can see that the Cavalier is barely even smiling. It's the mustache that's laughing.
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RitaGG 6 years ago
But at least they tried - and it looks like they had fun with it.
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What do you think ?
Kiahna 6 years ago
These were all amazing. While I loved the joke pictures, I absolutely loved the proper recreations. They were so... real. I'm f****n inspired right now. (Side note: where I am, it's now 11:49pm on the 31st of December. And HOLY S**T. It's almost the New Year. The fireworks are booming, my dog is barking and the drunk a*s neighbors have a f*****g microphone sound system. That's one way to start 2019. 😑) Wish me luck, bitches.
Chris Pitch 6 years ago
If these are all famous artworks, it just goes to show how much I do not know my art.
Kiahna 6 years ago
These were all amazing. While I loved the joke pictures, I absolutely loved the proper recreations. They were so... real. I'm f****n inspired right now. (Side note: where I am, it's now 11:49pm on the 31st of December. And HOLY S**T. It's almost the New Year. The fireworks are booming, my dog is barking and the drunk a*s neighbors have a f*****g microphone sound system. That's one way to start 2019. 😑) Wish me luck, bitches.
Chris Pitch 6 years ago
If these are all famous artworks, it just goes to show how much I do not know my art.
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