Can you create your favourite artwork with things lying around in your house?
With many countries under a lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and people cocooned inside their homes, netizens are coming up with creative ways to utilise their time. Channeling their inner artists, many have recreated classic artworks and shared them on social media after a tweet by @GettyMuseum challenged them to mimic famous artworks with objects at their home.
“We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. Choose your favourite artwork. Find three things lying around your house. Recreate the artwork with those items And share with us.” read the tweet and it instantly went viral.
From French painter Claude Monet’s work to “The Astronomer” by Johannes Vermee, here is how netizens found unique ways to recreate famous artworks:
— RachelForrest (@RachelForrest) March 27, 2020
@GettyMuseum Challenge – Take Five:
Vermeer’s The Astronomer pic.twitter.com/NIUN32YCkA— Ann Zumhagen-Krause (@annzeekay) March 29, 2020
@GettyMuseum feeling a bit constricted indoors, so we had to pause for this Nahua-Coyote inspired musing from Florentine Codex Book 11. pic.twitter.com/wZv3mBB8tA
— Josh Fitzgerald (@IntrepidHistory) March 27, 2020
@GettyMuseum feeling a bit constricted indoors, so we had to pause for this Nahua-Coyote inspired musing from Florentine Codex Book 11. pic.twitter.com/wZv3mBB8tA
— Josh Fitzgerald (@IntrepidHistory) March 27, 2020
Madonna and child.https://t.co/ZbnVeToUPE pic.twitter.com/7Vkl91CF6D
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
@TrevorThurling: Eat your heart out, monsieur David. @GettyMuseum pic.twitter.com/VAMroGgAaG
— Trevor Thurling (@TrevorThurling) March 28, 2020
@GettyMuseum pic.twitter.com/XsxLdrFR90
— Mike Colson (@karmadump) March 28, 2020
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