Painting to recreate

Liza Yukhnyova is an art history major from St. Petersburg, Russia, who’s sharing her love of the world’s great paintings by recreating one every single day for an entire year. She told me that she’s…

If there’s anything positive that came out of the worldwide pandemic, which turned out to be the biggest public health crisis in modern history, there must be a few things. More time for yourself and others is one. Rethinking your values is two.

People stuck at home during quarantine are letting their creativity loose. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged art lovers to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite masterpieces from home and the response has been massive.

My name is Lucie Kruta and five years ago I got the idea of capturing transformations of my growing children a little more creatively. I started to take pictures of my kids in the style of famous paintings. The first photograph was actually a coincidence.

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No matter the circumstances, you still gotta train the creative muscle. It doesn't take a whole lot. You pick an artwork, scoop up the most random stuff around the house, put yourself into a pose, and take a shot. The challenge has gone viral with museums asking people to recreate paintings at home and social media accounts in Spain and Russia sharing their own local takes on it. Check 'em out here and here.

Oil and acrylic painting of a mans face blurred out with colors

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When you can't leave home to go to a museum, your home IS the museum.