Japanese Art Students Turned Themselves Into Famous Paintings, Including The Biggest Fail Ever – Ecce Homo
Sandwiched between Tokyo and Yokohama, Kawasaki is a Japanese city famous for its heavy industry, open air folk museum, and… one of the biggest and most colorful Halloween celebrations in the country.
This year, body paint artist and SFX makeup wizard Amazing Jiro has delegated his students to the 22nd annual Halloween parade in the city of Kawasaki. About 2,000 people marched the streets wearing their costumes while 120,000 excited spectators took pictures and videos of the spooky crowd. However, none stood out as much as Amazing Jiro’s 6 students. Together, they dressed up as some of the world’s most famous artworks and their effort won the main prize of the event, the Pumpkin Award, as well as 500,000 yen (about $4,400).
The chosen artworks were Elías García Martínez’s Behold the Man, Pablo Picasso’s The Weeping Woman, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Continue scrolling to meet them!
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Around 2,000 people participated in the 22nd annual Halloween parade in the city of Kawasaki, but none stood out as much as these art students
They dressed up as some of the world’s most famous artworks and their effort won the main prize of the event, the Pumpkin Award
The chosen artworks were Pablo Picasso’s The Weeping Woman, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream
And Elías García Martínez’s Behold the Man
Watch the video below to see them at the parade
And don’t forget to pay your respects to the other participants as well
As their group costume went viral, people praised the creative efforts behind it
Everyone's griping about the fishnet stockings and high heels (in the FB comments at least), but why is no one talking about how super cool and well done those costumes are? Especially "Ecce Homo"!
Yeah, most comments are on the fishnet stockings. But it's Japan where weird things/fashion seems normal.
Load More Replies...The painter of Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey) is Doña Cecilia Giménez, not Elías García Martínez ;)
They meant the original painter (from Wiki: "...fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez...").
Load More Replies...I think they are starting to do Halloween better than the US!! LOL their ideas are great and as opposed to a FB comment deriding the fish stockings - I am fine with them!
Damn! I could look at pictures of those costumes for ages! So detailed!
Fantastic costumes!! (The paintings would have been a lot better with plain black tights, though)
I find these far more creative than 95 % of North American costumes.
What is with the ones that look like Kiss but don't really look like Kiss?. What are they going for?
I died when I saw Ecce Homo. Imagine- a classic work of art from our time! (Sorry, but I just don't count Banksy) Apart from that, where's the Shichi Fuku Jin?
I disagree. It gave them a unified look and didn't take a thing away from the art. And since there is nothing wrong with fishnets or mini skirts, I'm good with it.
Load More Replies...Everyone's griping about the fishnet stockings and high heels (in the FB comments at least), but why is no one talking about how super cool and well done those costumes are? Especially "Ecce Homo"!
Yeah, most comments are on the fishnet stockings. But it's Japan where weird things/fashion seems normal.
Load More Replies...The painter of Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey) is Doña Cecilia Giménez, not Elías García Martínez ;)
They meant the original painter (from Wiki: "...fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez...").
Load More Replies...I think they are starting to do Halloween better than the US!! LOL their ideas are great and as opposed to a FB comment deriding the fish stockings - I am fine with them!
Damn! I could look at pictures of those costumes for ages! So detailed!
Fantastic costumes!! (The paintings would have been a lot better with plain black tights, though)
I find these far more creative than 95 % of North American costumes.
What is with the ones that look like Kiss but don't really look like Kiss?. What are they going for?
I died when I saw Ecce Homo. Imagine- a classic work of art from our time! (Sorry, but I just don't count Banksy) Apart from that, where's the Shichi Fuku Jin?
I disagree. It gave them a unified look and didn't take a thing away from the art. And since there is nothing wrong with fishnets or mini skirts, I'm good with it.
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