19 Creative Remakes Of Classical Paintings
Following the tradition of famous classical artists can be important, but reinterpreting their work in the modern era can also yield great results. Most of this series of famous paintings recreated as photographs started when booooom.com partnered with Adobe for their Remake project, inviting U.K. students to send in remakes without digitally manipulating their images. The example set by their delightful submissions spread through the Internet, prompting everything from realistic photo duplicates of classical paintings to really funny low-budget interpretations, all of which captured the basic visual themes of the masterpieces they imitated.
Here’s a selection of 19 of the best remakes created without using Photoshop or any other post-production retouching (except for Tadas Černiauskas’ remake of van Gogh’s “Self Portrait 1889″).
Source: booooom.com (via: BoredPanda)
“Self Portrait 1889″ by Vincent van Gogh
Image credits: Tadao Cern | facebook
“Son Of Man” by René Magritte
Image credits: Juan de Ezcurra
“The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo
Image credits: gebbs
“Bedroom in Arles” by Vincent Van Gogh
Image credits: Joshua Louis Simon
“American Gothic” by Grant Wood
Image credits: Jesse John Hunniford
“The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dalí
Image credits: unknown
“Weeping Woman” by Picasso
Image credits: Frances Adair Mckenzie
“The Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David
Image credits: Ewa Wiktoria Dyszlewicz
“Ugly Duchess” by Quentin Matsys
Image credits: Alexandre Mury
“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich
Image credits: Spencer Harding
“Self Portrait” by Frida Kahlo
Image credits: Bazooka Betty
“Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth
Image credits: Meg Wachter
“The Girl With The Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer
Image credits: unknown
“La laitière” by Johannes Vermeer
Image credits: Justine Rioufrait
“Grande Odalisque” by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Image credits: Craig White
“Therese Revant” by Balthus
Image credits: Chloe Van Overmeir
“Lady with an ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci
Image credits: Wanda Martin
“Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” by Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
Image credits: Stephan Hoffman & SoYeon Kim
“La bonne foi” by René Magritte
Image credits: Noemi Mazzucchelli
Got wisdom to pour?
The “remake” of Girl with the Pearl Earring is a still from a movie by the same name, directed by Peter Webber and based on a novel by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars in it as Griet, who’s a maid in Johannes Vermeer’s house.
I liked both the Van Gogh’s and the Pearl Earring. Grande Odalisque and La laitière made me smile (just because of the orange). Kind of like the Wanderer, if he was actually above the fog it would be way better. The others, not great.
I like “Self Portrait 1889″ by Vincent van Gogh & “The Girl With The Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer, all the rest odd or uninteresting
I’m sorry but the majority of these are disfigurements. The First is excellent, the next two are witty and the last is passable, but the rest, especially the Picasso, are travesties.