I really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much closer than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail. I think it’s important.
I started to imitate pieces of art for the #gettychallenge. At the beginning, I decided to do it daily for 30 days, but at the end of this period, I couldn’t stop. I’m still continuing and now I am on day 130. I have recreated Middle Eastern galleries, ancient, Indian, Red Cross posters, and others.
I do everything on my own: makeup, costumes, lighting with a table lamp, and shooting just with my phone’s camera, using very simple things which surround me at home.
Ilya Repin “Princess Sofia Alekseyevna” (1879)
John Collier “Priestess Of Delphi” (1891)
Remzi Taşkıran “Portrait Of A Girl” (1961)
Tamara De Lempicka “Pink Tunic” (1927)
René Gruau “Illustration For Dior” (~1950)
John William Waterhouse “Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May” (1908)
Caravaggio “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (1599)
Tito Conti “An Italian Beauty” (~1880)
Konstantin Makovsky “Portrait Of Countess Yusupova In The Russian Costume” (1900)
Just had that laying around the house, eh? (Not knocking her – this is great! I just don’t have a random, huge, gold crown with dangly bits in my garage 🙂 )
John Everett Millais “Sophie Gray” (1857)
Abram Arhipov “Woman In A Green Dress” (~1900)
Khariton Platonovich Platonov “Portrait Of A Woman” (1903)
John William Godward “His Birthday Gift” (1889)
