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I Decided To Recreate One Famous Classic Painting A Day For A Year, And Here Are My 53 Recreations
I really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much closer than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail. I think it’s important.
I started to imitate pieces of art for the #gettychallenge. At the beginning, I decided to do it daily for 30 days, but at the end of this period, I couldn’t stop. I'm still continuing and now I am on day 130. I have recreated Middle Eastern galleries, ancient, Indian, Red Cross posters, and others.
I do everything on my own: makeup, costumes, lighting with a table lamp, and shooting just with my phone’s camera, using very simple things which surround me at home.
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#1
Ilya Repin "Princess Sofia Alekseyevna" (1879)
Final score:
153points
postboredom 5 years ago
the lady's expression in the painting looks like she is going to steal your candy
Jon Frazier 5 years ago
She tried to steal the whole Russian Empire from her brother, Peter the Great.
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Marsha Hultberg 5 months ago
Great job with the bracelet/cuff!! GREAT overall. Clearly a descendant!!
Tim Griffith 11 months ago
With the photographers choice of model- I keep seeing Madeline Kahn as the model doing all these painting poses!
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#2
John Collier "Priestess Of Delphi" (1891)
Final score:
152points
Fabulous Otaku 5 years ago
can someone please tell me which is real? im actually confused, not joking or complimenting the photo quality (though it is amazing)
Nora H. 5 years ago
Spot on! Maybe angle your arm a little bit differently, but otherwise - touché.
#3
Remzi Taşkıran "Portrait Of A Girl" (1961)
Final score:
145points
#4
Tamara De Lempicka "Pink Tunic" (1927)
Final score:
131points
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Thank you for the compliment 🥰
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Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago
Ahhh I absolutely love this artist....first time I saw her work I was mesmerised....couldn't stop thinking about it....and bought it....The Green Turban (1930)
Katharina Nowotny-Boles 5 years ago
All of these are phantastic ... what an undertaking... love it!!!!
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Her recreation looks like every facial expression Kristin Stewart is capable of.
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Thank you for warm words 💞
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René Gruau "Illustration For Dior" (~1950)
Final score:
119points
Melinda Flick 6 months ago
My grandma had a ‘NOT Dior’ hat almost identical to that one. I have a small picture somewhere.
#6
John William Waterhouse "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May" (1908)
Final score:
117points
Pam Templeman 5 years ago
I love how you used fabric to create the stained glass window effects.
#7
Caravaggio "Judith Beheading Holofernes" (1599)
Final score:
117points
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
The recreations are fabulous, except you are much more beautiful than the original!
Patricia Lehman 11 months ago
The girl in the painting has just a touch of sadness in her look, but well done.
#8
Tito Conti "An Italian Beauty" (~1880)
Final score:
116points
Jay Teekay 5 years ago
Good, but the original is looking sideways instead of directly into the camera. A slightly annoying discrepency.
#9
Konstantin Makovsky "Portrait Of Countess Yusupova In The Russian Costume" (1900)
Final score:
111points
Kristin Ingersoll 5 years ago
Just had that laying around the house, eh? (Not knocking her - this is great! I just don't have a random, huge, gold crown with dangly bits in my garage :) )
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
I created this crown from 2 eastern hats, piece of golden lace and and necklace
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Dawn Shackleford 5 years ago
How do you find all the right costumes? Very nice!!! Looks great on you too!!!
#10
John Everett Millais "Sophie Gray" (1857)
Final score:
109points
Lisa Champion 5 years ago
Everybody's a critic. Could we always not find negative in everything instead maybe some praise for the articulate work put into these magnificent talented creations.
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Elisabeth Moore 11 months ago
i did this with my art students when school was closedand they had to work from home pandemic time they came up with some great ones but yours are fantastic
#11
Abram Arhipov "Woman In A Green Dress" (~1900)
Final score:
106points
Patricia Lehman 11 months ago
I like it. The woman in the painting is more robust, but nice job.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I'm picturing that drawing on top of the first (outer) nesting dolls now.
#12
Khariton Platonovich Platonov "Portrait Of A Woman" (1903)
Final score:
105points
C Pryce 5 years ago
You've caught her expression perfectly - and her stance, her attitude. It's a bit spooky!
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Oh yes this is you in both , excellent portrayal. What an amazing collection to keep for your inheritors too
#13
John William Godward "His Birthday Gift" (1889)
Final score:
104points
#14
Theodoros Rallis "Odalisque" (~1900)
Final score:
104points
#15
Giovanni Boldini "Portrait Of Lina Cavalieri" (1901)
Final score:
103points
Deb Martin Knaff 5 years ago
Just to be able to go from the thick, round chubby cheeks in #12 to the long, drawn, thin face in this one is amazing in itself! I am so taken with how much imagination and sheer fun it must have been to recreate these!!!!
Bjørnar Bjørkhaug 5 years ago
Eyes are looking in different direction. Expression on old picture is loneliness, in new picture anger.
#16
Hermann Winterhalter "Portrait Of Clémentine De Boubers, Baronne Renouard De Bussierre" (1854)
Final score:
101points
Kurtis Driver 11 months ago
You are the Meryl Streep of portrait art recreation. You have a timeless beauty that translates well in all time periods.
#18
Vladimir Makovsky "Tete-A-Tete" (1909)
Final score:
98points
Erica Hanlon 5 years ago
That's is SO funny and I just ove the "stand-in" underneath the table!
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
OK you are too young for this one, but great try love the painting too red nose and cheek Granny
#19
Paul Cesar Helleu "Portrait Of Lady With A Fan" (~1900)
Final score:
94points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
A fair comparison but she has finer features and body structure. Still the artist could have also altered her too!
#20
Leonardo Da Vinci "La Belle Ferronnière" (1490)
Final score:
93points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
A hard one to imitate with those traditional style of faces the artists always painted in those times..but a fine effort
#21
Jean-Marc Nattier "Madame Victoire De France" (1748)
Final score:
89points
Santiago Molina 5 years ago
Again, really good, the make up and hair styles are great in all of them, very hard work!
#22
Jean-Francois Portaels "The Necklace" (~1850)
Final score:
89points
Kathy Jones 5 years ago
Wow, really? How did yours turn out? I think this is amazing.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Shade the face darker , lose the eye shadow wings and then you have it
#23
Karl Bryullov "The Last Day Of Pompeii" (1830-33)
Final score:
89points
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Tryed to express it well 😉
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Patricia Lehman 11 months ago
I don't know what look I'd have if I saw molten lava ash coming at me.
#24
Tiziano Vecelli "Woman With A Mirror" (~1515)
Final score:
85points
#25
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo "Two Women At A Window" (1655-60)
Final score:
82points
Desiree Beck 5 years ago
Swtch the two women and I think it would be closer because the girl with the hand on her cheek Is younger and it looks Ike her mother or older sister I behind her
#26
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov "Portrait Of NF Matveeva" (1909)
Final score:
82points
#27
William Etty "The Seamstress" (~1820)
Final score:
81points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
I lobe this even if the painting a more wistful in expression the simile is there
Elizabeth Cottell 5 years ago
Liza, you have an amazing face - you actually look like all these paintings! ie not just the dress, makeup and accessories. So versatile. Well done, I love what you have done x
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Details are pretty important
Load More Replies... Deb Martin Knaff 5 years ago
I believe Etty may be looking down having wished you were the model.
#28
Frederick Leighton "Nausicaa" (1878)
Final score:
81points
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Thank you, most important for me - expressions
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
A good imitation, the painting girl has longer legs and more feminine style in her pose..
Phoenix Devlin 5 years ago
Can she change her body for this? No! She’s not trying to copy these paintings-she’s trying to recreate them.
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#29
Giorgione "Judith" (1504)
Final score:
79points
whitney sweat 5 years ago
I love that she just has a sword laying around the house... a sign of a truly great woman.
Kimlan Lau 5 years ago
Judy was Thiccccc! Love it! I don't know why she beheaded the guy, I assume she beheaded the guy & that it was for a good reason. And she is just making sure the guy is dead for sure so why not stand on his head. uh huh ok.
#30
Anders Zorn "Frieda Schiff, Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg" (1894)
Final score:
79points
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
In my social media I am explaining from what exactly I made each costume or background. I am really glad that you see it as a costumes, but most of them just a scarfs with a lot of pins in reality 😂
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Rachel Connot 5 years ago
She's not comparing herself to the images, she's just recreating them. SMH
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi "Woman Looking For Fleas" (~1710)
Final score:
79points
Robert Robi Z 5 years ago
The fact that someone actually painted something with that title is deeply disturbing
Kimlan Lau 5 years ago
Perfection! Your expression is even more relevant that what the painting shows!
#32
Henry Inman "Hayne Hujihini, Eagle Of Delight" (1832-33)
Final score:
79points
Sonika Schroeder 5 years ago
Good grief critics...she cannot change her face...look at the details, the look in the whole, not the face. You are expecting the impossible. This is art. Artistic liberty-ever hear of it?
Sarah 901 5 years ago
IKR!! It’s likE bruh she’s not gonna get plastic surgery for each dang picture😂
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ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE 5 years ago
Do you expect her to get plastic surgery or something?
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#33
Charles Landelle "Judith" (1870)
Final score:
78points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
There is a very strong energy in this more than a real likeness. Love the costumery you have designed for each and every portrait likeness.
That Screaming Hamster 5 years ago
The eyes are something else Once again, how do you feel about being an actress?
#34
Eleanor M. Ross "Edith Cavell" (1917)
Final score:
77points
Jean Martin 5 years ago
Edith Cavell was a Red Cross nurse in Belgium during WWI. She was executed by the Germans. I think that may be why she is covered with a black veil in her portrait.
Floortje Zeebregts 5 years ago
Your face is spookyer than hers. But I guess she would look a lot spookier had she still been around in this day and age...
#35
Franz Xaver Winterhalter "The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal As Crown Princess Of Prussia" (1867)
Final score:
77points
Fabulous Otaku 5 years ago (edited)
but the hair... i can’t even braid my own hair, and she’s out here doing all these fabulous styles? amazing! 👏👏👏👏👏
#36
John Singer Sargent "Lady Agnew Of Lochnaw" (1892)
Final score:
77points
#37
Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje "Spanish Beauty" (1880)
Final score:
76points
Brigita Petrutis 5 years ago
The Spanish Beauty (on the right) is a dead-ringer for the actress who needed her lucky hat, in the movie about Henry Hill (Goodfellas?).
#38
Ilya Repin "Leisure" (1882)
Final score:
76points
Kikka io 5 years ago
the use of the wooden chair removes the impression of softness that makes the woman in the painting slip into sleep. it is difficult to think that on that wooden chair anyone could slip into a sleep
Nettie Davis 11 months ago
Did you not read where she was doing these recreations using items readily available to her around her home? She wasn't going out and finding exact replicas. Sheeeesh.🙄
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#39
Raja Ravi Varma "The Maharani Of Travancore" (1887)
Final score:
75points
#40
John Collier "Portrait Of A Lady In Oriental Costume" (~ 1900)
Final score:
75points
Amelia Earhart 5 years ago
I am certainly glad she did not chop off the top of her head to remake this one!
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Similar but perhaps not as many of the others. Great try to capture the mood
#41
Filipp Malyavin "Peasant With Red Scarf" (1905)
Final score:
73points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Yes it could be you in a rage...he does not do justice to the model I fear..she is not happy!!
Rachel Connot 5 years ago
You didn't get the meaning of this post at all did you?
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Edwin Long "A Votary Of Isis" (1891)
Final score:
72points
Sarah 901 5 years ago
I think she did that just for shading I don’t think. It was rlly “makeup” just ...touch ..up? Lol
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Alexey Venetsianov "Girl In A Scarf" (~1820)
Final score:
71points
Sarah 901 5 years ago
That’s what I said lmao this one person like almost everyone ItS nOt PeRfEcT
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Sarah 901 5 years ago
Critics do be harsh exhibit a ⬆️ 😂😂 every comment from you lol no shade
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Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov "Portrait Of A Woman" (1960s)
Final score:
70points
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Yes a very good likeness and expression the core of the paintings
#45
Aykut Aydogdu "Next Chapter"
Final score:
70points
#46
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky "Poor Lisa" (1827)
Final score:
70points
Sonika Schroeder 5 years ago
Cybele Spanjaard - I challenge you and your negativity, your severe criticism to do even slightly better.... I am stunned at how you find fault with every single one of these!! My mouth is hanging open!
Janelle Morissette 5 years ago
Right!! She’s recreating the classic paintings, not trying to make carbon copies. She has done an exceptional job.
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 5 years ago
they're just amazing - the amount of work & detail you went to -- KUDOS!
#47
Ivan Argunov "Peasant Woman In Russian Costume" (1784)
Final score:
70points
#48
Charles François Prosper Guérin "Girl Reading A Book" (1906)
Final score:
68points
Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
They do, but most people don't have them hanging around their house!
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Yes could be the model for this work of art and the style is lovely.
#49
Elizabeth Sonrell "Cordelia" (~1901)
Final score:
65points
Sarah 901 5 years ago
Who disliked this smh that’s so stupid it is lovely tell me who disliked it I would like to rage 😂
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Anders Zorn "Burden" (1886)
Final score:
64points
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
I didn't know how it would be in Swedish...
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Megan Pollock 5 years ago
Although, with the somber expression, it may have been her burden to be a bride....
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
Forced arranged marriage. Poor dears. Wonderfully caught the sorrow of it. Well done.
A Random Panda 5 years ago
Do you want her to like, buy 365 different corsets and get plastic surgery every time or something?
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Ali Nemah "Resident Of Baghdad"
Final score:
61points
Rikke Hackner 5 years ago
I think it's one a week but still incredibly impressive. I have friends who have done one for every day of lockdown. They have done well over 100!!
MiniMaus 5 years ago (edited)
1 painting a day would have been 365. I painting a week would have been 52. But 53 does not = 1 a day.
WildBerry 5 years ago
Sure it does. She had to get or create the props and the clothing so that took additional time.
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Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Oh yes..the face so alike the finish ..well it would be hard to find any sheer reflection to try and repeat this
Floortje Zeebregts 5 years ago
I would’ve thought she had painted her face... the other details are always so accurate!
Kim Hessel 5 years ago
Yeah, especially considering that she's painted her face in other pictures to get the shading right.
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Viktor Vasnetsov "Alenushka" (1881)
Final score:
60points
Karen Fox Carnes 5 years ago
OMG--your potted plants!!! You are amazing, talented and delightful. Thank you for making my day.
#53
Peter Paul Rubens "Rubens's Daughter Clara Serena" (1623)
Final score:
60points
Susan Lustenberger 5 years ago
You are utterly AMAZING!!!! Is there a place where we can read about what all went into this for you? I am fascinated by your process of finding all of your items and recreating the art.
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Honestly it's very deep for me. My Instagram: muse_liza, there more information about each picture.
Load More Replies... Suzanne Dunne 5 years ago
Wonderful thing to do you have made your own legacy even if you didn't paint
Lois Hoffer 5 years ago
It's the accuracy of the facial expressions that really makes it. After that, you don't notice any difference in dress!
Candace Leeper 5 years ago
These are absolutely fabulous pictures. Liza, you have captured the expressions and feelings that the original pictures are portraying. To anyone who wants to criticize- I would like to see you do as good a job! Many thanks for the entertainment!
Jan Schmidt 5 years ago
All of them are wonderful! Hard to believe you did each in only one day. You have such a beautiful, classic face, and your hair styling skills are amazing. You also did such a great job on the photography! Brava!!
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Thabk you for kind compliment 💞
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Ginger DaCosta 5 years ago
I'm an art historian and I am in love wuth what you have done. I will buy the book wben you publish one. More more more.
Liza Yukhnyova (Submission author) 5 years ago
Honored to hear that from professional 💞
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John Bieranowski 5 years ago
Loved looking at your talent. The makeup, props, positions, all of it. brought smiles to me.
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Liza has a gift for transforming herself into the subjects of the paintings. Not just the settings, which are fantastic, but her face, expression, focus. I also envy her wardrobe if these were items she had. Veey well done.
postboredom 5 years ago
Amazing recreations. And who is the douche down-voting people who are praising the artist???
Celeste Grant 5 years ago
Glad there aren't too many people playing spot the difference and pointing out any tiny detail they see. This lady has amazing skill and an amazing eye for detail to be able to recreate painting of such broad subject matter. Interesting choice of paintings and artists too.
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
Liza is exceptionally talented in her interpretations of some of her favourite paintings. With just a small amount of makeup and a very lavish wardrobe she has transformed herself into an artform itself! What a talented eye this woman has! The transformations are magical and beautiful, making art really come to life. What is amusing to me is that Liza is such a gorgeous woman, she makes the original works of art seem even uglier, lolol. I'm sure that wasn't her intent at all, but it can't be helped but be obvious....Anyway, exceptionally well done Liza. You are amazing! Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent.
Liza Yukhnyova (Post author) 5 years ago
Thank you for compliment, glad that you like it 😉
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Liza has a gift for transforming herself into the subjects of the paintings. Not just the settings, which are fantastic, but her face, expression, focus. I also envy her wardrobe if these were items she had. Veey well done.
postboredom 5 years ago
Amazing recreations. And who is the douche down-voting people who are praising the artist???
Celeste Grant 5 years ago
Glad there aren't too many people playing spot the difference and pointing out any tiny detail they see. This lady has amazing skill and an amazing eye for detail to be able to recreate painting of such broad subject matter. Interesting choice of paintings and artists too.
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
Liza is exceptionally talented in her interpretations of some of her favourite paintings. With just a small amount of makeup and a very lavish wardrobe she has transformed herself into an artform itself! What a talented eye this woman has! The transformations are magical and beautiful, making art really come to life. What is amusing to me is that Liza is such a gorgeous woman, she makes the original works of art seem even uglier, lolol. I'm sure that wasn't her intent at all, but it can't be helped but be obvious....Anyway, exceptionally well done Liza. You are amazing! Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent.
Liza Yukhnyova (Post author) 5 years ago
Thank you for compliment, glad that you like it 😉
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