
Irises, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh. Oil on canvas, 29 1/4 × 37 1/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 90.PA.20. Re-creation via Twitter DM by Cara Jo O’Connell and family using Play Doh, carrot slices, and wooden beads
On Wednesday we issued a playful challenge on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to re-create your favorite art using just three objects lying around home. And wow, did you respond! Thousands and thousands of re-creations later, we’re in awe of your creative powers and sense of humor.
The challenge was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a brilliant Instagram account called Between Art and Quarantine, but adapted with the invitation to use digitized and downloadable artworks from Getty’s online collection. In the last few days, we’ve been delighted by countless creative interpretations of iconic artworks—both on our feed and across the web.
You’ve re-created Jeff Koons using a pile of socks, restaged Jacques-Louis David with a fleece blanket and duct tape, and MacGyvered costumes out of towels, pillows, scarves, shower caps, coffee filters, bubble wrap, and—of course—toilet paper and toilet rolls.
Cézanne and Vermeer have been a popular source of inspiration, especially Still Life with Apples (done to perfection with household pottery and gin) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (restaged with selfies and grandma, pug, or lab). Grant Wood’s American Gothic seems to capture the current socially distant mood, while Munch’s The Scream is appropriate for all ages and apparently tastes good on toast. (The Cézanne is at the Getty; the next three are at the Mauritshuis, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Munch Museum in Oslo, by the way.)
A warm thank you to all of you who have sent in their photos; they’ve been a bright spot for us during this tough time, and we hope for you as well.
Below, a roundup of just a few of the thousands of ingenious and hilarious re-creations of art from Getty—and other world collections—you’ve shared with a grateful Internet this past week. If you haven’t done the challenge yet, we hope they provide some inspiration for your own creation! For some specific how-to’s to do a great re-creation, jump to our tips the bottom of the post.
Renaissance Lasagna Noodles

Imaginary Insect, Tulip, Spider, and Common Pear in Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, 1561–1562; illumination added about 1591–1596, Joris Hoefnagel, illuminator, and Georg Bocskay, scribe. Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment, 6 9/16 × 4 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 25. Re-creation on Twitter by the Martinez family with lasagna, matches, produce, and paper bag
Christian Martinez’s 6-year-old daughter Bella has a love of nature that drew her immediately to this page from a Renaissance manuscript. Encountering the challenge over breakfast, the family let their imaginations run wild for this brilliant re-creation.
“Pasta being life for a 6-year-old, it was first selected, followed by the boiled eggs, which happened to be cooling off to the side,” Christian told us. Next came a brown paper bag as the canvas, and a basil stem from last night’s dinner. “It was truly wonderful to let art be the answer and escape in such a volatile environment,” he added.
Interior with Easel

Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25, 1912, Vilhelm Hammershøi. Oil on canvas, 31 × 27 3/4 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018.59. Re-creation via Facebook DM by Tracy McKaskle with picture, pins, easel, and unpainted canvas
This early 20th-century Scandinavian interior spoke to Tracy McKaskle “because we are all confined to home,” she said. “I really love the lighting in the painting and found the placement of the picture on top of the wall very unusual.”
For her re-creation, she stood on a chair and carefully placed some pins to hold the little picture, moved her dining room furniture out of the way, then perfectly placed an easel with a blank canvas.
Tracy added that the minimalist vibe of this one room doesn’t apply to the rest of the house. “I’m a collector—from the Salvation Army to estate sales to alleys and sidewalks. The interior painting is the complete opposite of me as I have no empty spaces in my house!” Relatable, Tracy.
The Harp and the Vacuum

Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type, 2700–2300 B.C., Cycladic. Marble, 14 ⅛ x 11 1/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.AA.103. Recreation via Facebook DM by Irena Ochódzka with canister vacuum
Transforming into an ancient harp player with a vacuum cleaner “was the first thing that came to mind when I was looking at your collection,” says Irena Irena Ochódzka, who posed herself into this amazing sculptural recreation. “It seemed like a good idea to combine a more seriously inspired harpist pose with something as mundane as a vacuum cleaner.”
Dad and Daughters

Lot and His Daughters, about 1622, Orazio Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 59 3/4 × 74 1/2 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 98.PA.10. Recreation on Twitter by Qie Zhang, Erik Carlsson, and their daughters with sheet and yellow dress
This Baroque masterpiece “was the first painting that stood out to me [in the Getty collections] and I thought we could do it pretty easily,” said Qie Zhang of this family project. Her two girls fought over the yellow dress, she told us, but you can’t tell from the delightful end result.
Her husband’s pose also made us laugh with its allusion to parental exhaustion.
Mantel Clock Meets Tea Time

Mantel Clock, about 1785, clock case attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire, design attributed to Jean-Guillaume Miotte, clock dials enameled by Henri-François Dubuisson. Gilt and patinated bronze; enameled metal; vert Maurin des Alpes marble; white marble, 21 × 25 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 82.DB.2. Re-creation on Twitter by Sandro Alberti with tea and cookies
In this clever re-creation, an ornate time keeper becomes personal tea time. “I chose the clock because it already was so over-the-top ornate and yet so intimate and familiar,” Sandro Alberti said.
“The shape reminded me of a porcelain glass, or mug, and there was the reference to beverages on a tray.” The combo of clock and beverages took his mind to tea time, and from there to chocolate and porcelain.
“It just luckily happened that the multiple cookies also mark time (a cookie per second), and the only white porcelain mug I had happened to be a ‘design’ piece.”
Yawning Man with Dish Towel

Self-Portrait, Yawning, by 1783, Joseph Ducreux. Oil on canvas, 46 3/8 x 35 3/4 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 71.PA.56. Re-creation on Instagram by Paul Morris with British redcoat and twisty towel
Paul Morris has been going to the Getty Center since it opened, and he’s always loved this self-portrait of artist Joseph Ducreux yawning.
“I would keep a postcard of it near my bedside to inspire sleep. The red jacket I already had at hand; it was part of a British redcoat costume, but I’ve also used it to dress up as a pirate and most recently for the recreation of the Hamilton-Burr duel. My wife added the twisty towel for my head and the white dish towel for the cravat, and also took the photo.” And here’s the final result.
The Tiny Laundress

The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse), 1761, Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Oil on canvas, 16 x 13 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 83.PA.387. Re-creation on Instagram by Elizabeth Ariza and family in modern-day laundry room
Elizabeth Ariza and her daughter have recreated Cézanne, Manet, Degas, and this painting of a laundress by Greuze. She says, “my daughter and I are searching for paintings to recreate, and in this case, we really loved the composition. She loves to dress-up and act; she’s a natural actress.” The final product is perfection.
Laughing Fool with Giraffe Ears

Laughing Fool, ca. 1500, attributed to Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen. Oil on panel, 13 7/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. Image: Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Recreation via Facebook DM by Tiffanie Pierini Ho with giraffe onesie, Christmas sweater, and post-it
Tiffanie Pierini Ho recreated this delightfully macabre Netherlandish portrait (from the Wellesley College collection) with task lighting in her home office.
“I knew I had a giraffe onesie with ears, and a Christmas sweater with cuffs, so those were my main costume,” she shared. The staff was the challenge: not wanting to go whole-hog with papier-mâche or clay, she tried balancing some toys on her shoulder, which “frustratingly kept falling off.” In the end, she told us, “I ended up drawing the head on a large post-it and sticking it to the wall, and just calling it a day.”
The Astronomer and the Tray Table

The Astronomer, 1668, Johannes Vermeer. Oil on canvas, 19.6 in. x 17.7 in. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Image: Wikimedia Commons. Recreation on Twitter and via Facebook DM by Ann Zumhagen-Krause and her husband with tray table, blanket, and globe
Ann Zumhagen-Krause got started on this picture-perfect reenactment of a Vermeer masterpiece at the Louvre by scrolling through a Google Image search for paintings of interiors, looking for ones she might have the right objects and lighting and setting to do. “I got my husband involved—he’s as much of an art enthusiast as I am,” she told us.
“We covered a tray table with a blanket, added our globe, found a chair with the same outline, and had fun with positioning. The light coming in the window was good, and we had a blast with it.”
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Tips for the Quarantine Challenge
1. Find Great Art You Like
The only tools you need for this activity are your imagination and a picture of a work of art you like or find interesting. Browse our online Getty Museum collection and search the keyword field for ideas (for example, “portrait” or “dog”). If you have a certain unusual item that you think would work well—like the globe Ann described above, Tracy’s easel, or a special outfit, hat, or even a melted clock like Rich—you can start by searching for that, too.
Many museums have great online collections with images available to download and use for free: try LACMA, The Met, Cleveland, Indianapolis, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walters, or the National Gallery.
And of course, you could try a Google Image search for “painting [keyword],” “sculpture [keyword],” or whatever else you like. You might even try a reverse image search: upload an image of yourself or your object to Google Search and see what it thinks it looks like. (It’s often way off, but let that be part of the fun.)
Pose 3 Objects, Pets, or People
Now that you’ve found your inspiration, pick the objects you’d like to use. Any objects are fine: from a blank piece of paper to your most elaborate hat. You can stick to 3 and see what you come up with, but you’re welcome to use as many as you like.
Here are a few tips:
Enlist a pet. Get your dogs, cats, bunnies, and even ferrets into the mix. Here’s an example of a furry companion pretending to be a fox, complete with her toy used as a prop, and here’s a very attentive pup bringing a classic composition into the iPod era. Bonus if you have an acrobatic cat.
Make a face, strike a pose. If you’re interested in re-creating a portrait or group scene, pay attention to the facial expressions—they really make it. Here’s an all-out scream and a sassy glance. If you’re reenacting a scene with multiple figures, pay attention to the poses. These high school art history students show how it’s done.
For a family activity, look for a domestic or dinner scene. For inspiration, here’s a great Van Gogh tribute.
Pay attention to lighting. Try to imagine where the light in the artwork is coming from, and orient your composition so a window or lamp is casting similar light onto the scene. In bright daylight, windows offer a blue-tinged light, while most lamps cast a warmer glow. Here’s a beautiful example of thoughtful portrait lighting.
Think abstractly. If you’re having trouble re-creating an artwork’s appearance, try focusing on shapes over colors. For example, did you know you can suggest the Venus de Milo, one of the greatest sculptures of ancient times, with a Boost bottle and a torn Subway receipt? You can, and Wendy did it!
Make it snackable. Edible art counts too. Why not make a Magritte on toast or even a pancake? Or how about a sculpture out of strawberry?
Photograph and Post
Use a smartphone camera or a digital camera to take a photo (if you’re posing, have a member of the household do it for you; if you live alone, use the front-facing camera on your smartphone, or the camera on your computer). You may want to do several and pick the best one. Then share with your family and friends the way you enjoy best!
If you use Twitter or Instagram, share your creation with the world there using the hashtags #betweenartandquarantine and #tussenkunstenquarantaine.
If you use Facebook instead, you can post it to your feed or send it to us directly: go to the Getty page and click “Send Message,” then tell us about it in words and attach the photos.
If you want to unite the two photos—the original and the re-creation—into a single image, you can use photo-editing software like Photoshop (here’s an online tutorial) or use a phone app like PicCollage (an example).
If you have questions or suggestions, please post them in the comments below!
I just love this challenge!
How do I send u my pic
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10163449041885557&id=731765556
Love this idea, hope you all like our attempt!
very cool!!!!
wow idenical
This sounds fun! I can’t wait to start!
same
I really like people now in the present dress how pepople look back in the days! #creativepeople #dresslikeolddays
I wrote this little piece depicting the corona virus life. I am a professional violist conductor and my friend a fine violinist and was skilled enough to visually choreograph the little piece.
Eric Shumsky I may be seen on You Tube and my father was one of the worlds greatest violinists. His name was Oscar Shumsky https://youtu.be/Q8bC5zYuRok
cool
Wow
Where are the Pictures?
Wow Cool! This is going to be fun!
I love everything about this!!
Sizzlingkebab ツ
I had fun doing this at home. Thank you, for allowing us to use are creativity.
Neveah Radlein /Thomas Edison Elementary 4th Grade
The interior with easel was nice and from my perspective I believe it past to present.
i know.
Hello
I want play the challenge
Thanks to send me all days the picture who was be product
What is the challenge
This is a challenge were you recreate any painting with items you find around the house!
some are ugly but at the same time nice kinda
I don’t like this but it’s cewl i guess.
Vi prego di prendere in considerazione il lavoro dei miei ragazzi che si sono tanto impegnati. Vi posto dunque il link della mia scuola dove troverete tutte le opere realizzate. Vi prego d’indicarmi come dargli una degna visibilità. Grazie infinite per l’idea per la sfida.
https://www.liceomazzininapoli.edu.it/le-alunne-di-3f-4f-e-5f-lavorano-da-casa-con-artea-cura-della-prof-manco-ileana/
My granddaughter was just fooling around being herself. Her mom’s friend noticed that she looked like the Picasso and sent it to her.
@Ileana Marco-
pubblicali sulla pagina Facebook del Getty Museum con l’hashtag #betweenartandquarantine
Sono un insegnante d’arte recentemente in pensione. Ho fatto questo incarico con i miei studenti. I tuoi sono meravigliosi. Auguri.
me too
Hello,
We don’t undestand how you chose the pics on instagram. We did the challenge and our pic has never appeared.
Could you explain to us ?
Thanks for your return.
SAME I can’t wait to do it!
Really? It’s that good?
food
Love it
This has to be the silver lining! Bravo to whom ever came up with the idea originally!
Wonderful
I love this…
This is so fascinating! People have done some wonderfully creative things. Its not easy if you’re a perfectionist. There went half a day.
I’m sending this on to some of my favorite artists – all of us on stay-home status. This is totally fun and also challenging – both needed in these critical times!
I love this idea and have made 3 already but I am not on any social media. How can I post them without instagram, twitter or facebook?
Hi Alice,
That’s awesome! You can e-mail us at social @ getty.edu (no spaces) and we’ll try to get those posted on our Facebook for you. Can’t wait to see.
Best,
Sarah
This is a good exercise for understanding how and why an artist chooses the elements of a successful composition for painting!
What a remarkable idea!
yeah I know that is a remarkable idea.
Such amazing creativity & imagination…thank you to all of you!
I love this! Is the challenge ongoing? Or was there a cutoff? Thanks!
It is still on!
I loved the lady with the vacuum cleaner as a great piece of sculpture!
I loves these and have been trying to send some of my own via email but can’t find an email address. I have been doing this for years. I got into trouble whilst arranging a major modern landscape production trying to reverse my Jag into position by the lock outside Flatford mill in Suffolk where Constable painted the Haywain.
Elliot, what an incredible story, I’d love to hear more about that! Omg. I would love to see your recreations.
Excellent concept for getting people to study and re-create art. Now do a competition for artists that work with found and up-cycled objects to make art. I would eagerly participate in that
Brilliant. Thank you for coming up with a novel and fun idea. And a huge thank you to everyone who ran with the idea and created much needed joy!
Great idea! Thanks for doing this.
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‘Think Abstractly’ paragraph: The piece by Wendy is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, not the Venus of Milo.
Thanks so much for spotting my error! Right you are.
For those reading this comment and wondering about the difference: both are ancient Greek marble sculptures and both are in the Louvre in Paris, but the Venus de Milo has a more demure pose and no arms or wings, while the Winged Victory of Samothrace has a more dynamic pose and wings and was made about 200 B.C.
Dear Getty Museum,
I have been recreating famous works of art as photographs for several years now. Examples were on display at the Royal Academy in London in both 2014 and 2018 (the latter year in Grayson Perry’s famous Yellow Room). There is a collection of some of the work on my website http://www.annagrayson.com.
While I am delighted to be a trendsetter, and it is true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I think it would be appropriate for you were to acknowledge the body of work I have made in the past!
Artists are struggling at the moment and deserve a bit more recognition !
Dear Anna, Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful work, what an inspiration! We were unaware of your work, so we are very grateful for your bringing it to our attention.
Hi Annelisa,
great to see that you replied to Anna. That’s brilliant, as often in this kind of situation there is no reply.
Now that it is brought to your attention I wondered what you might to do with the information. Most galleries and institutions do nothing. There is an ongoing problem in the art world that originality is not recognised. Unless it is the originality of an already established artist. And it is a real socio-economic issue that discriminates against the creative work of those from minorities and under-represented voices.
I believe that the problem arises from the lack of transparency, accountability and rigour in the selection of artwork. Because of this problem I investigated how artwork is listed in electronic museum management systems and art gallery collections. If you can use lists to select the work then you have a means of selecting the work.
I found the taxonomy (terms used) by the Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) and their Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) (which are presented as an industry standard in museum and gallery collection management systems) involve thousands of terms that are so specific that they are completely unwieldy. The AAT and CDWA are so complex that many museums and collection management systems do not use them. In response to this I created a different system to help people create their own systems. Available in book form https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Find-Create-Original-Masterpiece-ebook/dp/B07C9R5BM9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=padgett+art+masterpiece&qid=1589153995&sr=8-1
My soon to be published essay on Art, Unions and Artificial Intelligence refers to peer reviewed articles showing how A.I. can decide what is quality, innovative and original. It can sort 77,000 images of paintings into historical order based on just 5 formal qualities and without any pre-knowledge of that historical order. It can determine if artworks are fakes based on brushwork. And paintings done by computers have been found indistinguishable from the work of professional artists.
As such AI can help bring transparency and fairness to the selection and appreciation of artwork.
As editor-in-chief of the Getty Iris and assistant director for digital content strategy you have a brilliant position to be able to do something about this.
I appreciate you are very busy, it would be wonderful if you could please let me know your thoughts on this
best wishes
Anthony
It’s not an original concept so it’s not surprising others have been doing this for some time. People are great at identifying similarities between their lives (art, casual photos, surroundings) and recognisable works of art, and they delight in sharing their observations. It’s a stretch to accuse anyone of having stolen such an idea.
Hi Anna
I just read your post. Well done for leading the way with this kind of work – and as far back as 2014. I hope you get this. I’ll also email you via your website contact. I work with the Artists Union of England and my motivation is that artists are given recognition for work that they do which is, as you say, trendsetting. Whether someone else comes up with the idea independently or by influence is significant, but who does something first is most significant. This project has differences and is a communal project rather than an individual artwork, nonetheless all the works in it are derivative of the first works.
I’ve just posted something similar for moderation.
This is a great project. Please note, for the record, it isn’t the first time something similar has been done.
Check instagram for some of my 67 paintings I did in 2017 of updates of Van Gogh artworks – also on http://www.ayearwithvincent.co.uk
And 100 paintings I did in 2018-2019 of updates of Picasso artworks – http://www.ayearwithpicasso.co.uk
I promoted these kind of comparisons to the museums in Amsterdam in 2018. I’m sure other people have been doing similar before me also.
Keep up the great work and please also value when ideas occur first (even if in slightly different forms).
Please comment if you’ve been doing this kind of work prior to 2020.
It is a brilliant project and wonderful artworks made by so many people. I was struggling to find who started it. “Bored Panda” says was created by Anneloes Officier, a 31-year-old communication specialist from Amsterdam behind the “Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine” Instagram page. And that after the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam started following Anneloes on Instagram, the project went viral. https://www.boredpanda.com/recreation-art-quarantine-tussenkunstenquarantaine/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Anthony D Padgett – representative of the Artists Union of England
best wishes
Anthony Padgett
anthonydpadgett@yahoo.co.uk
Brilliant! Have posted to my daughter who is an art teacher in Alabama. Will share her classes follow-up – when they can meet again!
Thanks,
GED
Such fun. Please have an exhibit with these when the world reopens !
This is my first time using this
Is there somewhere we can go to see ALL of the entries? Thank you!
I think it’s a fantastic idea it lets you create something that you would never have done
I promise I have a great submission, but I’m not on any of the social media… :-(. Can I just email the pic somewhere ?
I am SO excited about this project
I don’t know where to begin
I hope to enter more than one
Thank you for this ……..
So creative !
Love it
Our extended family just had a ‘haiku’ writing competition. Maybe we can do this one next. (our own competition, then share on the Getty site.)
How long will this activity go on?
It looks like so much fun.
Is there another way to send a photo, other than facebook, twitter, instagram? My 12 year old wants to send a photo, but doesn’t have social media. Thank you!
These brought a smile to me and shows how even in the most difficult of times the human spirit and creativity rise above it all. I have been an art lover for decades and the fact that we have on-line access (without the crowds) to our great museums is such a mental lift. Thanks for this creative concept.
Hello, Im an artist in Austin Texas, I make beaded micro-mosaics using traditional huichol technique. I have done 2 beaded Van Gogh Guitars – ‘The Starry Night’ , https://www.hcwatkinsart.com/the-starry-night-guitar and ‘Irises’ https://www.hcwatkinsart.com/new-projec . I spent hundreds of hours working on these ‘micro-bead-mosaics and I’d love to share them with the world. My Aunt Lisa challenged me to do starry night in beads back in 2017- I accepted, and it opened my eyes to the possibilities of the medium (individually placed 2mm seed beads, and beeswax, and a substrate skull or guitar). I think I technically qualify for the challenge. sorry for being late to the party.
I am amazed at the ingenuity and creativity of these people. What a wonderful art exercise it would be for those children at home from school. Thumbs way up!!!!
Irresistible. Just what I needed today. Thank you.
I guess its going to be ok.
Is there access to ALL of the submissions? I love what you’ve shown so far, and terribly crurious about the others that have come in. Just for the effort, I’d think they could go public. Thank you so much! This has been the most-repeated post on my Facebook stream…and not just because I’m an artist. All walks of life are loving this….a great way to make great art accessible!!!
This was just charming and delightful!
I do not have enough words to describe Joy and laugh I felt watching such artistic creativity!
Isabella from Malnate, Northern Italy
I am an art teacher and would like to include this super fun and creative idea as a lesson plan for my elementary students. Is that OK, or do I need any type of permission from the Getty Museum or Rijksmuseum? Can students turn in their renditions to our school site as well, beside posting on any or all mentioned social media?
Im will do monalisa because i had a sudden urge and she is from history and a hard drawing
Je ne sais pas comment faire des photo mes sinon ses genial
Thank you so much for this idea! I’ve been creating video art challenges for all my art students since they closed the NYC public schools, and sending them through dropbox. I’ve been posting my and my student’s museum challenge on Instagram @forartssakeclass and tagging you. I was thrilled when you liked the three I’ve posted so far. But I can’t seem to get the two images posted without part of the images being cut off. I’ve tried using Instagram’s collage app, but it still cuts off the images. Help?!
Thanks for this wonderful initiative. I’d also like to highlight for your records the account brinellarte on Instagram. This is a schoolteacher in Italy who has been associating her dog with artworks for a while in a very humorous way.
It’s a great way to stimulate appreciation for the arts and I hope you keep it up. Congrats!
Can I send an image by email please? Love the whole idea. CH
What fun!! Today it kept me off of the streets for hours!
Very good
Great !!! Art Museums are a feast for us. So, now we have to find new ways to feast on the creative genius of others.
I thoroughly enjoyed doing this challenge. Kept me busy and time flew by.
Thank you.
I love this Challenge and I think lots of people will try to do it. I want to see all the funny things that the people come up with.
I think this Challenge is amazing!!!
Please show us more!!!
Great diversion for these days. Connect us with humans of centuries ago.
I have created an image….but I don’t use any social media any more for my mental health. Can I send to an email to share?
I’m not done what did challenge but it’s fun
I LIKE THAT FLOR WITH TOMATO AND EGGS.
I liked the pictures that was copied.
We have a big jarden, so Can we take an inspireted photo outdoor?
I am extremely happy of this awesome idea to help people share their creativity and keep them sane while in quarantine.
THANK YOU Getty for loving the arts and allowing people to remain active while at home. I love this challenge and it’s very refreshing…I have enjoyed it and laughed tons with people’s fun sense of humor.
What a great idea for this time. Thank you
How do I send a pic ?
This sounds so fun! Can’t wait to start!
I have seen several of these on various sites, including Bored Panda, and I am awestruck at the cleverness, as well as model look-a-likes…and also ashamed that I know so few works of art. This challenge has challenged me to learn more!
Are you still accepting entries for this challenge?
cool
We’ve done one. Where do we send it?
Cool
I love this activity so much! I’m an elementary art teacher and used this challenge as inspiration for an episode of my new TV series, “The Art Teacher in Quarantine.” Here’s the episode: https://youtu.be/Ot7sGjnbnSo
Thanks for the fun!
Need to make this viewable by the general public — those who don’t allow their privacy to be datamined and monetized by facebook or instagram. No way to view without an account, and that will never happen.
I love this! I am passing it along to my art instructor friends.
Are all the submissions available for viewing? Where? What is the URL?
Thanks.
Was this hashtag #tussenkunstenquarataine meant to be misspelled? There is also one out there that’s spelled correctly being used to post and share.
I enjoyed this. Thank you.
These look so realistic!
Please, don’t get me wrong but it seems like you guys took by error the “Winged Nike” and placed it as the actual “Venus of Milo”. If so, can you correct this one?
I think a lot of people in the whole World (Hi from Brazil!!) are getting fun through this challenge. But people can also learn by fun and it’s an amazing thing, indeed.
Congratulations on this challenge to all the Getty educators team 🙂
With love
Rose G.
Wow! Everyone’s recreation is super creative! I love how all the people used their brains to come out with an idea nobody else has thought of. These recreations are better than I thought. Also, I am doing a recreation too. It’s a woman with a black dress laying down and almost falling of a green couch. If anyone knows who made this picture, please reply me and tell me because I really need to know!
That was beautiful Art 😉
Brilliant ideas!! I thoroughly enjoyed these!!
jk, I like the art I can’t wait to start!!!!!!
It’s amazing and fun to everyone!
Cool art I love the art I love ❤️ it
I like the art
Hello,
I’m a elementary art teacher and I really, REALLY want to invite my students to do this challenge but fear that some parents may be upset by nudity or other sensitive themes in famous artworks. How might I be able to advise them before hand on how to search for a favorite artwork with their child on the internet?
they recreated good art.
i like the art
i love them
Some folks in our company decided to do this challenge. From a copyright standpoint, are there any issues with showing via Skype the original artwork along with their creations in a closed Skype meeting?
Thanks
Phil
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and have some fun!
Are you still playing!? I want to play!!
The Angelus is a painting by Jean-François Millet, painted between 1857 and 1859. As a couple, and living in the countryside, we enjoyed a lot to try this first challenge for our family and friends. 1000 thanks to the Getty Museum for this bright idea !
I like the the picture of one adult and two children
I have a photo .who i can participate?
I love them all, so so funny.
How do i see the all of the Getty recreations? Love them
Is this challenge still open
I like basketball
that’s so cool i would love to try it sometime. 🙂
Can you post a recreation of the Girl with the pearl earring? I am lost and i need ideas.
I’ve been having fun with this challenge. It’s both creative, educational, and humorous. Keep it up!
This is cool, I don’t have Twitter, Instagram, or facebook, is there a way i can send you my picture?
I love it! Great!
This is awesome. How can I take the challenge?
These are fabulous. PLEASE create a website that shows many more of the submissions and update it as you receive more entries. Thank you.
Is there a place we can send our work via email for those of us who do not use social media?
Cheers!
love it.
this challenge is so fun
Choose two of the following paintings and recreate them at home using whatever homemade materials are around. Once you have done so, take a picture and share them with your teacher! Feel free to use anything and everything, and to get your friends/family (and pets!) involved as well!
I love the pictures
it was very interesting and cool
it’s amazing
I used this as an assignment in my online Art Appreciation class- it was wonderful! Admin now is thinking of passing the challenge on for fun faculty challenge!
I love this challenge my opinion it showing past to present. And how you can imitate things.
awsome
How could u not like it, it is so creative
The picture with the still room shows the emotions that the painter had and wants to give off to the ppl look at it it’s supposed to capture ur mind to thinking that it’s a still room
Hello,
I am Marie. I am 9 years old. I painted with my sisters what I see from my Windows.
How can I send it to you ?
Have a nice day.
Marie
I Have not done it yet But I alreadly love it
I want to post my challenge on Facebook. But I cannot find a downloadable image of Richard Diebenkorn’s “Woman with Hat and Gloves” Do you have a source that I could download a copy of that painting? Thank you, Costanza Knight
Hi Constanza! The painting is not in Getty’s collection – so we can’t point you to it on our website. Good luck!
This brought a good laugh during a rainy quarantine day! Love it!
Maurizio Cattelan est irrévérencieux , j’aime bien l’idée de profiter de ces idées pour ce challenge.
This is amazing brovo
This really rocks I really like the pictures and its very creative and nice.
I love it! Make me happy!
Great article and suggestions, I may start some sketches right now
this stuff is SO GREAT!
I love this idea! So awesome 🙂
PLEASE. Make a book of all the photos. I beg you. I can look at these forever. Absolute genius. I hope there isn’t a copyright issue. I may have to print my own if you don’t. It would a great coffee table book to share with friends, a great gift, an uplifting drug free mood enhancer.
BOOK PLEASE
Could I decorate a cake to look like a painting? Does that count? Please help!
How di I add this?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hTyx2mcgD4uCKj8j6
Love this challenge! And if Gene Karraker still works there, tell him I said HI! We went to high school together.
so cool
Thats an beautyful idea! Thanks!
lol
you love this what?
Can I email the photos?
Wonderful creative art challenge! Thank you!
Dear Kind Person,
Please help me relocate an oil painting here that I attempted to download to recreate for the Getty Museum Challenge. The painting is of a tall red-headed and bearded white gentlemen wearing all black except for a small white Elizabethan collar and cuffs. His upper body is clad in bulky clothing while his pants are tightly fitted almost like dance tights. He appears to be from the UK. One hand is in his pocket and the other is holding his feathered hat, and a saber is partially hidden on his unexposed side. It appears that he is standing in front of a mantle and there are either Greek or Roman columns on ether side of the mantel behind him. I believe I found it in a section called Portrait of a Man, but I cannot relocate it. Thanks very much for your help.
Jim Donaldson
how do we do this in corona time
lol
how do we do this
You are all awesome for making TD a family and a very special place to work. Congratulations – so cool and creative!
Thank you for the inspiration. Nice challenge. I am using this as an newly- created-online Art teacher with my Grade 7 and 8 students in Canada, and so far I have been amazed by their ingenuity. I would love to share their interpretations.
However, if we are to post to hashtags #betweenartandquarantine and #tussenkunstenquarataine, are there any copyright considerations we should be aware of? With so much art available through Google Search, I can’t determine where students source the original art. Should I refrain from posting anything?
Please, please compile as many entries in your challenge as you can to print and publish a BOOK we can buy on line. Maybe announce a $10.00 “award” if selected and include
a form to sign for permission. You know the joy of these Corona Virus ART History pieces. We would love
them NOW and imagine the sales when you get to open back up. I know this has probably been
suggested a lot, or other more imaginative ways of getting these brilliant works of ART out to all of
us. If so, one more vote from one of your fellow stay at homes. Thank you SO much for what you have created.
Hopefully, Ellen
Please help me relocate an oil painting that I want to recreate for the Getty Museum Challenge. After downloading it, I have been unable to find it again. The painting is of a full-bodied tall red-headed and bearded white gentleman wearing all black except for a small white Elizabethan collar and cuffs. He has an appearance that brings to mind Prince Harry with pale skin and rosy cheeks. His upper body is clad in bulky clothing while his pants are tightly fitted almost like dance tights. One hand is in his pocket and the other is holding his feathered hat, and a saber is partially hidden on his unexposed side. It appears that he is standing in front of a mantle and there are two very large Grecian or Roman columns on ether side of the mantel behind him. I believe I found it in a section called Portrait of a Man, but I cannot relocate it. Thanks very much for your help.
Jim Donaldson
We have a couple of submissions. But we created our masterpieces before the quarantine. Are we still allowed to submit them?
What kind of work were you making. I was doing similar kinds of work before also. I’d be interested to see – anthonydpadgett@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.ayearwithvincent.co.uk
Hi there
I was sent an Henri Matisse painting (Picture) by my very good friend Moyra Earnshaw from Nairobi. This was my challenge to recreate a famous painting. Together with my friend Elisabeth von Flüe we accepted the challenge and had a wonderful day full of laughter and creativity. There is a result. At my age I felt quite shy of exhibiting my body as freely as the beauty in Matisse’s painting does. I feel we managed to do this quite tastefully appreciating the attractiveness of a mature woman 😉
We might be too late, but fun it was!
Thank you for letting me know how I can send our artistic contribution.
I do not use Facebook or Twitter …
Yours sincerely
Karin Klapproth Brennan
Hi Karin, lovely to hear how you ladies got together to create.
My sister and I enjoyed making some responses to the challenge but don’t use social media and couldn’t upload them. How did they suggest you do it?
I know it is rather late in the piece but technically, we are still in isolation in WA with our boarders remaining closed and my sister unable to return home to Penang.
Leslee R
This is a great project. Please note, for the record, it isn’t the first time something similar has been done.
Check instagram for some of my 67 paintings I did in 2017 of updates of Van Gogh artworks – also on http://www.ayearwithvincent.co.uk
And 100 paintings I did in 2018-2019 of updates of Picasso artworks – http://www.ayearwithpicasso.co.uk
I promoted these kind of comparisons to the museums in Amsterdam in 2018. I’m sure other people have been doing similar before me also.
Keep up the great work and please also value when ideas occur first (even if in slightly different forms).
Please comment if you’ve been doing this kind of work prior to 2020.
Anthony D Padgett – representative of the Artists Union of England
It is a brilliant project and wonderful artworks made by so many people. I was struggling to find who started it. “Bored Panda” says was created by Anneloes Officier, a 31-year-old communication specialist from Amsterdam behind the “Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine” Instagram page. And that after the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam started following Anneloes on Instagram, the project went viral. https://www.boredpanda.com/recreation-art-quarantine-tussenkunstenquarantaine/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Omg the real life is so disgusting in the toilet!
Noice
how do you make it like a slideshow?
funny 🙂
;3
My son recommended that I look into this. I am teaching mini art lessons from home to the students at Fairview South School in Ms. Angie’s room. I am her assistant and get to teach a couple of virtual lessons a week. I am having so much fun with this and will have to send you some of the results!
Love this idea, here is my attempt attached to this file:///Users/mattl.cashman/Downloads/IMG_0977.JPG
I’m doing this as a school assiment!
Such creativity can become art. That’s amazing.
My students just did it. They turned out great.
I love it!!! Humor is definitely a great medicine. Very creative.
Umm… do i have to use the pictures up there
Cool
I’m an ESL teacher ( secondary school from 12 to 18 ) and would love to participate in the challenge with some pupils, is there a deadline?
thanks for the great ideas and making life agreeable sharing Art.
Take care
Marijo Khardi
wonderful idea for children.
thank so much
Amazing challenge
Super cool
And creative
that was little fun and very interesting
Same time I don’t understand Artist because I am not good at Art class
The title of the painting that Payton is doing is called “Boy With Pitcher( La Régalade)”. The artist that created this painting was Edouard Manet. The origin is France.
Love the idea
Like pics!
I saw a lot of beautiful thigs and people l saw art that it was amazing and I saw people that are probably that are from the 1980 or 1976 .
this was so much fun .
Can’t wait to see what’s next!
how do u send the pic and its causal
wow insane
cool pictures
Hello, I have now recreated 50 paintings. I wonder whether you’d like to see any of them?
Nice! Can’t wait!
Is the challenge still on?
I want to see more
It is nice and fun, I will try my best to do so.
amazing challenge!
fun
That looks nice guys good job!
i love the eligance of the art is shows history and movement but what i love more is the people that copy the movement and artwork from back then to now they model there self to look like the painting
I love the art you have.
I love the art so much ! Art is very cool! wow!!!!!!!
Thank you for this opportunity.
I love the work!!
This is awesome! Our Art Orientation professor just gave us the Getty Quarantine Challenge as an assignment. And she is giving out bonus points for sending our re-creation to the museum. So please stay tuned.
Jen ;~}
Here is my pictures
La Machine d’Argent from French
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Great post! Happy to see Amazing and creative arts for home. Thank you for sharing with us!
I would like to know when is the deadline to enter or post my artwork
No deadline! There is no prize or judging, so please create and share whenever you like!
This is Wonderful, Thank you, I love the Getty
Would like to be on any listing you send put
This is just what what I need after 5 grandmonths in my garden
those drawings are amazings best drawings have never see
What a great idea and ingenuity. Created genuine laughs very much needed in day to day life.
I love this, and would love to share it with students. Do you have a translation to Spanish?
Congratulations.
How do people do that?
I am doing this for a school proj, nice ideas
These are the best!!!
I am doing these for School as well too
12.2.2020 Is it too late to submit artwork?
What is the deadline?
So glad you’re interested! The challenge has no deadline as it’s just for fun. We’d love to see what you come up with if you tag us @gettymuseum on social media!