Recreate famous paintings

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.

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

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…

Ever since last December, people have been entertaining themselves by participating in an open community project called "Take a photo of the Rembrandt type".

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.

Even though most of us are stuck at home and can’t go out and enjoy art in museums, that doesn’t mean that life is boring or uncultured. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (or the Getty for short) challenged people to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite classic paintings from the safety of their homes.

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Visiting museums to experience art in person is not an option in the era of social distancing. These creatives are staging their own art works at home.