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Photographer Spends Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks And The Result Is Worth The Wait
Most of us were bored at some museum at least once in our lives - except this guy! France-based photographer Stefan Draschan always keeps himself entertained at famous art galleries with his creative photography ideas.
One of those projects is “People matching famous paintings”. Although at first Draschan’s cool pictures seem perfectly staged, the secret behind them is patience. The photographer enjoys visiting different museums mostly in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin where he waits for visitors to suddenly match with a piece of classical art in a funny way. The result of his bright idea is these humorous and unique pictures of unexpected harmony between people and the classical paintings they’re facing. It’s usually the outfits that match the art, but there are also people who match with the paintings because of their hairstyles and colors, or even beards.
Scroll down to see this ongoing project for yourself and beware – Stefan Draschan might be somewhere out there “hunting” for you!ng” for you!
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Richard Nagler 8 years ago
Can I draw your attention to . . . . I did this book in 2014 pb-snapsho...28-png.jpg 
Maggie McMenamin 8 years ago
wonderful! but you know they are two entirely different artistic perspectives. Just awesome!
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Abbey Elam 8 years ago
I think that it's not all a coincidence that these people were drawn to these pieces of art. A woman that bought a shirt because she loves that particular shade of blue would also gravitate to the painting with the blue flowers or the man who loves bold patterns would stop to admire a piece with bold patterns. I love this series, very cool to look at!!
Tom Megalis 8 years ago
did he wait for weeks or just hire some people and dress them and get this project done in 2 days? Sorry, I've worked a long time in advertising.
Kristin Haskins 8 years ago
I am not in advertising, just a little jaded. I too think it's staged.
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Vasanth 8 years ago
Is that an Art? By the way, the Woman's dress seems more attractive than that 'art'
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Ginger Panda 8 years ago
I love this. Wouldn't it be wonderful to wrap yourself in a painting?
Dayle Kenyon 8 years ago
This is just beautiful , favorite artist and beautiful dress and the hat
Cherri D'Ann 6 years ago
If you scroll up so you can't see the bottom of the painting frame, she looks like she's actually part of the painting.
Marilyn Farley 8 years ago
I took a similar photo at l’Orangerie in Paris with a different entrancing young woman in a different coordinating dress last spring. I too marveled at the symmetry. Very fun!
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Cassie 8 years ago
I love how the seam in the baseboard mimics the walking stick in the painting.
Emmi Visser 8 years ago
I don't know where these photos are taken, but the way this woman dresses is fairly common in The Netherlands. She's a 'type'. (Middle-aged, overweight, short hair, an abundance of fabric in the clothes)
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Sissi Wang 8 years ago
man, the painting is just like his self-portrait with a different haircut.
BREAK YOUr perceptions 8 years ago
i look at this and think of all the people that blame our modern processed food for our health problems. Clearly, genetics have always mattered most.
Emmi Visser 8 years ago
I don't know where these photos are taken, but the way this woman dresses is fairly common in The Netherlands. She's a 'type'. (Middle-aged, overweight, short hair, an abundance of fabric in the clothes) So the odds look pretty big to me.
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Arlene engel 8 years ago
Even the shadow under the painting is like the two blues in her sweatshirt.
Silvia Eichholzer 7 years ago
stary, stary night - paint your colours blue and grey, look out on a summer's day .... with eyes
Silvia Eichholzer 7 years ago
Stary, stary night - paint your colours blue and grey ..........
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moli.2 8 years ago
I thought about this too but might be really a coinsidence too
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James Naron 8 years ago
Looks like she escaped from the painting and is trying to decide whether or not to go back.
Victor Velasco 8 years ago
This is by Fra Lippo Lippi at the gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
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Ilya Ditkovskiy 8 years ago
New Marvel Superhero: Rugwoman! Ability: well... Sje can become a rug at will...
Sharon Aly 8 years ago
I wonder if some of them are looking at the art thinking, "there's something I really like about this..."
Alberto Curutchet 8 years ago
"Lady, you're looking at a courtain, the art gallery is that way"
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Susette Horspool 8 years ago
I could see him knowing the museum intimately, then recognizing someone coming in who matches one of the paintings, and following them around until they get there.
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Susana Salinas 8 years ago
A photo by a photographer who photographed another photographer watching an artwork.
Sebizzar N 8 years ago
Now we wait for the photographer who captured the photographer of this photo ;)
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Flannery McGale 8 years ago
Why would you not include the name of the painting artist, and museum? Its tacky not to!
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Varkes Goetcherian 8 years ago
Yes, and the painting needs a little yellow in it also
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Talia Johnson 8 years ago
It looks like she pulled the missing bits off to make her shirt! :-)
Isabelle Dodd 8 years ago
Looks like she leaned against the painting and some of it stuck to her.
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Teodor Graur 8 years ago
"Is a woman in here. Act normal." *They don't seem to handle it*
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Laura Minnick 8 years ago
She's defending her dissertation- the two guys on the right are going to be a hard sell...
Michelle Butler 3 years ago
The look from the subjects in the painting " Shouldn't you be in here?"
Barbara Kirk 6 years ago
I recall Phill Jupitus describing the people in a picture like this as 'The So Stolid Crew' in his book Good Morning Nantwich! The viewer is like the host of the committee.
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Silvia Eichholzer 7 years ago
Maybe it's not a painting but an framed relief from an ancient villa ?
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Kelly Davis 8 years ago
It's titled "Spring", by Erich Heckel. Not sure what museum this is in though.
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Sara Trimplekt 8 years ago
i love these!! i hope the viewers involved were contacted after pic was taken, and maybe sent a copy?
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Brandon Shorter 8 years ago
"Hey. Hey. *giggles* C'mon, look." "I'm not looking at your penis, Dave."
Cheryl Robinson-Atwood 8 years ago
"Hey, sweetheart. Can't you see we were made for each other?"
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Cheryl Robinson-Atwood 8 years ago
That's one painting that needs to be escaped from!!
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DirtFroggy 8 years ago
The first thing I noticed was that the left side of her sweater looked like a face!
Len Waterman 5 years ago
My Grandparents had a copy of this painting! I always thought it was too dark!
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Richard Riepl 8 years ago
Here's an even better painting for this woman to be looking at (Woman with Cat by Kees van Dongen) Woman-with...c6027f.jpg 
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
Interesting how "because my scarf match the colour of the sofa" make us think those are the same girl.
Faith Arnold 8 years ago
And her neck and her haircut... not just the scarf...
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Peter Eom 8 years ago
This one looks like an extension of an endless loop, like what you get with two mirrors facing each other.
Barbara Kirk 6 years ago
Like on the sleeve of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma for instance?
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Friedlander Rosenzweig 6 years ago
Truth is stranger than fiction, but some of these are a tad hard to believe they aren’t staged (or at least... “hey you, would you stand over HERE for a minute for a quick pic”) type situation.
Linda Thompson-Mills 8 years ago
I don't see the correlation between the viewer and the painting, but I love this Vermeer painting!
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Anna Maxwell 8 years ago
Hahaha! Yup! I was going to post, "Bernie, is that you?" but ya beat me to it. :D
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Gaynor Morgan 6 years ago
This looks like a Van Eyke painting. Wonder if the lady is related to the lady in the painting
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Tonia Hoefner 6 years ago
My dad was a photographer and part of being a good one is PATIENCE! If you wait long enough, and are ready for what you want to happen, it will. But...you MUST be patient!
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Paul Duvall 8 years ago
I'd rather meet a girl in a museum, than a bowling alley.
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Jeff Charest 8 years ago
The king looks like he's trying to decide which of the women is the most beautiful. A new Judgement of Paris.
Mary Kaye Waterson 8 years ago
One of these people is not like the others, one of these people just doesn't belong ....
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Joseph Barnett 8 years ago
Why do people like to wear clothes that drag on the ground like that? Not only is it a pain to walk like that without stepping on your clothes, but the clothes will act like a broom, and sweep up all the 'yuck' on the floor! The color is cool, tho!
Eileen Haas-Linde 8 years ago
All of these people have way cooler clothes than I do. And I think that's a woman, because it looks like there has to be a pretty high pair of heels underneath in order to achieve those proportions.
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Allison Howell 8 years ago
maybe it's just the perspective of the camera shot - but does anyone else think these people are WAY too close to the paintings they're looking at?
Linda Thompson-Mills 8 years ago
I have been to many museums and I always get quite close to see brushstrokes, etc. There are docents there watching your every move.
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Jny Telia 8 years ago
Interesting. This painting is titled Eichbaum im Schnee ('Oak tree in the snow') by Caspar David Friedrich 1829. Displayed in the Alte Nationalgalerie - same gallery where another painting in this collection is displayed. (The bleak landscape painting, with four white haired women peering into.)
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Candice Reilly-Powell 8 years ago
That’s a glitch in the digital file, it prolly happened when he put a filter on it.
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Joseph Barnett 8 years ago
I want to know what the man in the painting, is whispering, in the other guys ear!
Pepito Escanlar 8 years ago
I like how the person on the painting appear to whisper to the viewer whose head is bowed in 'reverence'.
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Laurie Cicotello 8 years ago
This looks exactly like my beautiful stylish Grandma Cicotello... She had red hair and loved wearing quilted dress coats. Love love love this one!!
Teodor Graur 8 years ago
The painting is so interesting and deep that she sleept with the head on the wall. Or maybe she feels the energetic vibrations.
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Melanie Deur-Yoder 8 years ago
Brings tears to my eyes as I remember how perfect Jesus, God incarnate went to hell to pay for my sins and the sins of the world. His resurrection gives all of us liberty through belief. So grateful
VT1000 7 years ago
As am I, but the vast majority of people who see this believe it to be SO EDGY. Yet nothing could be further from the truth when you're living in a world that is in open rebellion against its Creator.
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Prophetic t-shirt matches what happened after Jesus died-he descended into hell.
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
There is no repeated pattern between the clothes and the painting... Yet they just looks like a set.
Alexandra Daniele 8 years ago
Not a painting- that is Islamic tile and the configuration is what you would typically see in an Iranian mosque or other typically Iranian or other Gulf state mosques.
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Despina Papacharalambous 8 years ago
Oh please stop writing irrelevant comments, you waste my scroll-down process! You have such a beautiful and one-in-a-lifetime photograph and you what you have seen is the blue tag on her leg?????Are you kidding me??!!!
VT1000 7 years ago
Despina Papacharalambous is the self-appointed moderator now. Everyone had better straighten-up and fly right because FREE SPEECH will NOT be tolerated under this fascist regime.
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Daniel Greene 8 years ago
Potsdamer Platz in 1894 (1894) Hans Herrmann (German)
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Hilary Price 8 years ago
When I see this painting all I can think of is Love Shack by the B-52s.
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Cheryl Robinson-Atwood 8 years ago
I feel ya', girl. Or maybe-"So that's where all my spoons went!"
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Neeraj Jha 8 years ago
Pardon my very limited knowledge of art here, but what exactly is this art??
Michelle Mason 8 years ago
It's colour field painting. Rothko believed that certain colours and combinations could induce different moods and emotions, possibly even meditative states. Many of his paintings are larger, so when you stand in front of them you feel enveloped by the colour.
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Limbo The Lost 8 years ago
As an artist, I hate lazy art like this. =3= Some spend so much time and effort on their art and get no recognition, while others become famous for the canvas they used to wipe their brushes on.
Allison Wilcox 8 years ago
You really need to see Mark Rothko's paintings in person to appreciate them. Most are quite large and can fill your field of view. And the paint isn't just slapped on; he worked on each painting for months and applied the paint in thin layers to build up a rich, deep color. I've tried to paint this way myself and it's definitely harder than it looks. Read up on Rothko and go visit his art in a museum before you dismiss it. The way the color impacts your eye, the effects at the transition from one color to another, the feelings you get as you look at the paintings. Rothko was not lazy by any means.
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Rose Hellsten 8 years ago
People actually paid for this s****y art? I don't give a hoop even he is a famous painter! Still not art to me is just few color doesn't a complete painting period.
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
"Stand closer so the lines on your shoulders looks like they're extending into the painting."
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Jennifer Kostel 8 years ago
She looks like a dancer, her posture and back muscles, also her stance.
Hannah Sorenson 8 years ago
And it's actually the dress I wore when I went to my first art museum.
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Debbie Detmer 8 years ago
I upvoted you. I think I get what your saying. Her top matches the bust and the khakis match the stand the bust is on
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Sarah Michal 8 years ago
The bow has evolved over the centuries, just like the instruments they play. In certain parts of the world, the bows were shorter and the wood curved opposite to modern violins (among other differences). The shape of the bow affects its idiomatic way of articulating phrases.
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TheDowen80 8 years ago
you have a bold sense of commentary. Inept, but bold.
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Erin Wagstaff 8 years ago
This young lady appears to have put on shorts or jeans over her swimsuit to come here and look at some art, and I'll bet if you turn her around, you'll see nothing to arouse a frenzy there either. But she has clearly failed to realise that you, Linda Gulley, are the Sheriff here. BTW I'm waving all my obscene parts at you while typing this :)
Mary Pierson 8 years ago
I think that is a very judgemental statement. This photo is not about her attire, rather the similarities between her artistic tattoo and the piece and the wall. Statements like that perpetuate the hate culture that is way too pervasive.
Load More Replies... Josie Beaudoin 8 years ago
What, and cover up that glorious ink that goes so well with the artwork she's looking at? No way! Besides, if she had, she wouldn't be in this collection, and that would be a shame. This is a good picture!
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Erin Wagstaff 8 years ago
Lo'vyn, it's not just the painting that the artist is "matching"; it's the whole person and contact within which the painting sits. Your criticism throughout this article appears to come from a basis of - not very much at all. Like someone else said, why not google and get back to us?
Jean Manning 8 years ago
Lo’vyn, her hair matches the sand, her curls suggest the palm fronds and her bow is similar to the small shadow under the lady on the right. Just because you don’t see the similarity doesn’t mean others of us aren’t more observant.
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Debbie Detmer 8 years ago
Lol and I think she's enjoying watching her crew work ;)
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Laura Thornton 8 years ago
Lo'vyn, I hope you are just ignoring these rude people...I don't know what their issue is. :(
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Elle Campbell 8 years ago
Yes, girls, you are in a place of great art. But please, check your phones for something you might have missed!
Heather Cellini 8 years ago
A lot of museums have apps that give more info about the paintings and artists...before you judge them...
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Erin Wagstaff 8 years ago
Superlative! That script just above the middle back of the singlet is the Tiben script of the old Indian mantra om ma ni pad me hum. I have it on my wrist. ET-tat-day...a99823.jpg 
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
He serves to lead the eyes into the painting... Yes... He's part of the art.
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Priscilla Winslow 8 years ago
Not part of anything. I'm sure there were other pictures that were better matches.
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
The faces on her top would be a better match with some Chinese painting...
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Maja Lange 8 years ago
Heehee, you wrote "songpants". I like that. :) (It's 'Lederhosen'.)
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Melissa Teague 7 years ago
Are those supposed to be camouflaged arm bands at his shirtsleeves openings? I'm confused about his attire, German Boy Scout or nah?
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Sebizzar N 8 years ago
No, his hair is untamed like the foliage. The coat's fur resembles the frame.
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
@Joey... Extension, echoes, momentum. These are jargons unfamiliar to people who don't do art. Can't blame him for misinterpreting my comments.
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Diana Daniels 8 years ago
I would have cropped this differently. r bum takes all the attention
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Jamie Quarterone 8 years ago
Lady, you're killing me with your commenting. You focus too much on only one aspect of every picture. If you took the entire scene into consideration,you might be able to fully appreciate the photography. Not being mean, just being blunt with a smidge of advice. Peace!
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Roxy Eastland 8 years ago
Before anyone says anything, he's probably checking the app that the art gallery has to learn more.
Patrick Leeming 8 years ago
LOL, that would be interesting to have on a portable game system.
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Sebizzar N 8 years ago
Her attempts to be witty aren't working so well lol. However, TheDowen80 keeps replying to every comment of hers and he went from funny to just mean :|
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Priscilla Winslow 8 years ago
Are you talking about the painting, the shirt, or the hair? Wear something paisley, go to a modern art museum...
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Priscilla Winslow 8 years ago
That is such a strange fabric.... what is that piece of clothing?
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 8 years ago
It appears to be a collar, like the old "sailor suit" collars that you put children in.
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Michael Hughes 8 years ago
It looks like the hat is part of the painting and that she is sticking her head inside the painting in order to try the hat on.
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 8 years ago
it just.. fits! The photographer actually has an amazing eye for this.
Cerise Hawker 8 years ago
I believe the painting is Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Honore Daumier...her hat fits in the painting and her shoulders cover the breadth of his horse.
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Gyula Marancsics 8 years ago
Off-- All of these posts make me wanna go to museums,and meet nice haired and dressed girls..ready for -1 :D
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Lo'vyn Lai 8 years ago
The photographer just used his baldness to create the lightest spot for focus. 😂
Jennifer Meow 8 years ago
lmao! People really don't seem to like your comments. Happy you don't let them tell you what to do. It's been entertaining till the end. Never seen so much dislike over something so trivial.
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Linn Preston 8 years ago
The last few are really a s-t-r-e-t-c-h! Some look contrived, but overall, fairly entertaining!
Jennifer Meow 8 years ago
I don't see it in this one. Disappointing finally when all that came before were pretty incredible. Still really enjoyed all these captures. Wonderful work!
Adele Roy 8 years ago
remember that they are in "more votes" order so it gets boring at the end !!
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Erin Wagstaff 8 years ago
The shape of the map on her jacket reflects the land mass at the right. Also, the eagle's wings are reflected in colour and shape of the mountains at the left.
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Greg Hoggarth 8 years ago
I'm wondering if they're actually staged, at least some of them. Like he sees someone come into the room he's waiting in, and so he asks them to stand in front while he takes the photo. Potentially he waits at the entrance of the gallery and then guides people to the appropriate painting - even better hit rate then.
Bobbi Newell 8 years ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Like maybe it started as a coincidence, but then he started staging.
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Bob Isme 6 years ago
Life imitates art, a f****d up world trying to be the perfect picture.
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varwenea 8 years ago
This photographer is insanely patient. And no one else nearby? Bonus! Those are busy museums!!
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
Have a look on how i work and decide for yourself. For me it's supersimple https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
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Suzanne Ally 8 years ago
So is the point that he was patient or that he is good at drawing comparisons? What makes good art? Is patience always necessary? Or is vision enough?
Don Lee 8 years ago
You can have all the vision you want, but execution takes patience.
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George Holmes 8 years ago
O.M.G. how wonderful. Staged, I don't think so, but even so it takes some insight, forethought and tons of patience to do what has been done here. Sorry if I sound like a Museum Snob, but I did retire from a Fine Arts Museum. Gotta go now and spread this URL around.
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
i did this today so you can see how i silently work: https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
Load More Replies... Susette Horspool 8 years ago
I could see him knowing the museum intimately, then noticing a visitor coming in who matches one, and quietly following them around until they get there.
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
exactly :-) https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
Load More Replies... Gina Horvat 8 years ago
The visitors are attracted to paintings according to their taste and their taste is visible on their clothing.
Greg Hoggarth 8 years ago
I'm wondering if they're actually staged, at least some of them. Like he sees someone come into the room he's waiting in, and so he asks them to stand in front while he takes the photo. Potentially he waits at the entrance of the gallery and then guides people to the appropriate painting - even better hit rate then.
Bobbi Newell 8 years ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Like maybe it started as a coincidence, but then he started staging.
Load More Replies... Bob Isme 6 years ago
Life imitates art, a f****d up world trying to be the perfect picture.
Load More Replies... varwenea 8 years ago
This photographer is insanely patient. And no one else nearby? Bonus! Those are busy museums!!
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
Have a look on how i work and decide for yourself. For me it's supersimple https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
Load More Replies... Suzanne Ally 8 years ago
So is the point that he was patient or that he is good at drawing comparisons? What makes good art? Is patience always necessary? Or is vision enough?
Don Lee 8 years ago
You can have all the vision you want, but execution takes patience.
Load More Replies... George Holmes 8 years ago
O.M.G. how wonderful. Staged, I don't think so, but even so it takes some insight, forethought and tons of patience to do what has been done here. Sorry if I sound like a Museum Snob, but I did retire from a Fine Arts Museum. Gotta go now and spread this URL around.
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
i did this today so you can see how i silently work: https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
Load More Replies... Susette Horspool 8 years ago
I could see him knowing the museum intimately, then noticing a visitor coming in who matches one, and quietly following them around until they get there.
Kindliche Kaiserin 8 years ago
exactly :-) https://peoplematchingartworksdiy.tumblr.com/
Load More Replies... Gina Horvat 8 years ago
The visitors are attracted to paintings according to their taste and their taste is visible on their clothing.
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