Life imitating art! Social media users recreate their favourite masterpieces using ONLY items found around the house – with hilarious results
- A museum has challenged people to recreate their favourite works of art using objects they have at home
- LA-based Getty Museum penned: ‘ Choose your favourite artwork. Find three things lying around your house’
- One social media user did a ‘Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets on a Table’ portrait
- Another got creative with toilet roll to offer their take on 1990 piece of art ‘Mirabelle’ by Helen Frankenthaler
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With the nation in lock-down amid the coronavirus pandemic, a museum has challenged people to recreate their favourite works of art using objects they have at home.
Taking to Twitter, Getty Museum, based in LA, penned: ‘Choose your favourite artwork. Find three things lying around your house. Recreate the artwork with those items. And share with us’ – and the entries did not disappoint.
One person recreated ‘Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets on a Table’ portrait with three completely different food groups – tuna, cheese, and olive oil.
Elsewhere, another got creative with a toilet roll to offer their take on the 1990 piece of art, ‘Mirabelle’ by Helen Frankenthaler.
This Twitter user, from an unknown location, wrapped up in a pink blanket to recreate her chosen work of art – and the result is uncanny. Original artist and painting name is not known
One woman, believed to be from the US, decided to use a hockey stick to recreate this pose featured in the portrait of a Halberdier by Italian artist Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)
Another decided to recreate this ‘Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets on a Table’ by Jean-Siméon Chardin with three different foods – tuna, cheese, and olive oil
With the nation in lock-down amid the coronavirus pandemic, a museum has challenged people to recreate their favourite works of art using objects they have at home
Lynne Popkowski, from New York, used cuddly toys to recreate her version of The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark by Jan Brueghel the Elder
Taking to Twitter, Getty Museum , based in LA, penned: ‘ Choose your favourite artwork. Find three things lying around your house. Recreate the artwork with those items. And share with us’ – and the entries did not disappoint’
This peculiar picture of a group of men kissing was recreated by four friends in the modern day using what looks like a bed cover
Another person, from an unknown location, tried to prove this adorable pooch is basically a bunny, based on ‘A Hare in the Forest’ by Hans Hoffmann
Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, was recreated by this man at his dining room table, with his corgi looking like it is eyeing up his beer
This woman, from an unknown location, gave her most-loved piece of art a modern update – by switching a fan for a television remote control
One user created a similarly disgusting scene of an old painting of a tea set using coke cans, plates and a half eaten apple
Linda, from an unknown location, decided to get creative with a toilet roll (pictured right) in her efforts to recreate Mirabelle (1990) by Helen Frankenthaler (pictured left)
To recreate this inventive piece of artwork, one person, from an unknown location, broke up a chair and used a selection of dolls and teddies
Using towels and plants, this woman created a jungle scene without leaving the house by converting her bath tub