Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum
Weeks into practicing social distancing due to the novel coronavirus has led to some creative activity at home from a real-life simulation hungry hungry hippos to a makeshift nightclub. And now there is a museum-worthy fine art-themed DIY art challenge making the rounds around Twitter.
While museums around the globe are closed due to the novel coronavirus the J. Paul Getty Museum got people to take a stab at bringing classic cultural artifacts to life on the internet and the results are pretty impressive.
“We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home,” the Los Angeles museum. Challenging times have brought out plenty of challenges, and the internet accepted this one in full force over the weekend.
There’s almost no discernible difference between the original artwork and the faithful reconstruction of Pontormo’s “Portrait of a Halberdier.” Getty has cherry-picked some of the most bracing.
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.
🥇 Choose your favorite artwork
🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀
🥉 Recreate the artwork with those items
And share with us. pic.twitter.com/9BNq35HY2V— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
Skip art history and pore over a tour of great examples of life imitating art by peeping some of the sincerest forms of flattery with the Getty museum challenge below.
This one was slightly lower effort but impressive to say the least.
The three food groups: canned tuna, cheese, and olive oil.https://t.co/DErWcO2Kbe pic.twitter.com/vPv8VM5ZVG
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
With oven mitts, toy cars, vegetable tikka masala from TastyBite and Clorox Disinfectant Wipes, she is giving you “The Scream.”
You’ll have to blur your eyes to look at this one :) just a quick trial. pic.twitter.com/jAv4EEWCQP
— TheBee 🐝 (@thebeehivetree) March 26, 2020
We stan.https://t.co/K3JVGpFPAJ pic.twitter.com/rIqXzr5hIK
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
— rachelforrest (@RachelForrest) March 27, 2020
A thousand points go to whoever can get their dogs to look like they’re playing cards.
My donation to @GettyMuseum - Leonardo da Vinci's "Woman with an Ermine". Thanks to Duffy the ferret for sitting so still for a change for the Getty Museum Art Challenge! @GettyMuseum #TheLockdown #gettymuseum #gettymuseumchallenge #Covid_19 #QuarantineLife #ferret #ferrets pic.twitter.com/LTq2tbtEbV
— Monica Wilde (@monicawilde) March 30, 2020
Getty Museum challenge
1. Chose a work of art
2. Find 3 objects lying around the house
3. Recreate it
Here is my husband willingly recreating Self Portait, Yawning by Joseph Ducreux
😂#gettymuseum #artchallenge #quarantinefun #artteachersoftwitter pic.twitter.com/q3rJ7fpycw— Donna Cariola (@timberlane_art) March 28, 2020
Getty Museum Challenge @GettyMuseum #artchallenge pic.twitter.com/1E7r5Rfjvg
— Ann 🇦🇺💞 (@AnnQld1) March 29, 2020
The Getty Museum Challenge is great fun.. Honestly, I think I show promise😂👍🏻#gettymuseum #artchallenge @GettyMuseum pic.twitter.com/GoGscE4PFC
— Ann 🇦🇺💞 (@AnnQld1) March 29, 2020
The Virgin, Saint Elizabeth, and the Infants John the Baptist and Christ, but now with more unicorns...https://t.co/EUDgg7362Y pic.twitter.com/uSqoPFGF2d
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 26, 2020
Getty Museum challenge
1. Chose a work of art
2. Find 3 objects lying around the house
3. Recreate it
Here is my husband willingly recreating Self Portait, Yawning by Joseph Ducreux
😂#gettymuseum #artchallenge #quarantinefun #artteachersoftwitter pic.twitter.com/q3rJ7fpycw— Donna Cariola (@timberlane_art) March 28, 2020