Nov 23, 2020
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People Stuck at Home are Recreating Famous Paintings and It’s Awesome

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During this time of isolation, art lovers around the world have found a way to unite and stay creative: by recreating classic artworks using whatever they can find at home.

Several social media ‘challenges’ have gone viral online by institutions like the Getty Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine on Instagram.

I’ve compiled some of my personal favorites below. But you can find many more submission on Twitter, Instagram (here too), Facebook, and reddit!

 

 

1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Recreation via Krlmhl on reddit

 

 

2. Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck

Recreation via Covid Classics

 

 

3. Self Portrait by Joseph Ducreux

Recreated by ESOAP on reddit

 

 

4. Me and My Parrots by Frida Kahhlo

Recreated by lana09 on reddit

 

 

5. Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid’s Garden
by John William Waterhouse

Recreated by moorelei on reddit

 

 

6. Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna

Recreation via squidrobots on reddit

 

 

7. Self Portrait – Joseph Ducreux

Recreated by Paul Morris Pollux

 

 

8. Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

 

 

9. Spring by Édouard Manet

Recreated by OldMan603 on reddit

 

 

10. Irises by Vincent van Gogh

Recreated by Cara Jo O’Connell

 

 

11. Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh

 

 

12. Portrait de Madame P. by Tamara de Lempicka

Recreated by yoink15 on reddit

 

 

13. Chais, Santa Monica by Edward Weston

 

 

14. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

15. The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Recreated by Elizabeth Ariza

 

 

16. Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer by Fernand Khnopff

Recreated by Carrie

 

 

17. The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough

Recreated by mrdr_fest on reddit

 

 

18. Pictura (An Allegory of Painting) by Frans van Mieris the Elder

Recreated by Vignesh Ram

 

 

19. Self Portrait with Small Monkey by Frida Kahlo

 

 

20. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

Recreated via neburvlc on reddit

 

 

21. Balloon Dog (blue) by Jeff Koons

Recreated by JJ Obee

 

 

22. Saturn by Peter Paul Rubens

Recreation via keatches on reddit

 

 

23. Saturn Devouring His Son by Fancisco Goya

 

 

24. Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck

Recreated by Melissa Nordan

 

 

25. Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type by The Cycladic

Recreated by Irena Ochódzka

 

 

26. Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud’s Studio

Recreated by ewitstyler

 

 

27. Lady Playing a Lute by Bartolomeo Veneto

Recreated by Kelli Vigil

 

 

28. Salvador Dali and Gala by Nikola Golubovski

Recreation via PoonSwoggle on reddit

 

 

29. A Woman with a Bird by Pablo Picasso

Recreated by Dhanish04 on reddit

 

 

30. A Woman in a Fish Hat by Pablo Picasso

Recreated by thatdarnchelsey

 

 

31. Portrait of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso

Recreated by lil-drummer-girl

 

 

32. The King of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece Writing about Jacques de Lalaing by Simon Bening

Recreation via Getty Museum

 

 

33. A Hare in the Forest by Hans Hoffmann

Recreation via Getty Museum

 

 

34. Agata van Schoonhoven by Jan van Scorel

 

 

35. Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone
by Jean-éteinne Liotard

Recreated by Sara Liu

 

 

36. Portrait of a Young Woman by Nicolaes Pickenoy

Recreated by Bryan Beasley

 

 

37. Still Life: Tea Set by Jean-Étienne Liotard

Recreation via Getty Museum

 

 

38. Komposition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky

Recreated by itsjacobhere

 

 

39. Jeanne (Spring) by Édouard Manet

Recreated by irisofamanda

 

 

40. Safie by William Clarke Wontner

Recreated by wavyschmavy

 

 

41. Portrait of Isabella of Portugal by Rogier van der Weyden

 

 

42. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Recreation via Phantompooper03

 

 

43. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Recreated by 8AndAHalfInchNails

 

 

44. Portrait of Barbara van Beck by Unknown Painter

Recreated by corriewench

 

 

45. Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Recreated by Sara Bracciantini

 

 

46. Sistine Madonna by Raphael

Recreated by The-Page-of-sowrds

 

 

47. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Recreated by lanceessner

 

48. Two Women at a Window by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Recreated by @InLindon

 

49. The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

Recreated by Alex Woollard

 

 

50. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Recreated by Rag3ina

 

 

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