• SophistiCat
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    This is hilarious and touching. A Russian Facebook flash-mob group where people post their homemade recreations of (more-or-less) famous paintings:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/izoizolyacia/

    (Изо / izo is the first syllable of the Russian word for fine arts.)

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  • Fluke
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    More, to do with the Getty challenge Getty of course if you're not in the mood for societies social input at the moment you should probably not look. Also you may never want to see the portrait of the girl with a pearl earring again.
  • Jamal
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    The painting of the pile of skulls is called "The Apotheosis of War" by Vasily Vereshchagin, sarcastically dedicated "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come". Recreating it with frozen dumplings for skulls is either sick or brilliant, or perhaps both.
  • SophistiCat
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    More, to do with the Getty challengeFluke

    I somehow missed that one, I just saw an article about the Russian group and didn't realize that it had a predecessor. I love these - if I wasn't fortunate to keep my job while in quarantine, I could browse them for hours.

    The painting of the pile of skulls is called "The Apotheosis of War" by Vasily Vereshchagin, sarcastically dedicated "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come". Recreating it with frozen dumplings for skulls is either sick or brilliant, or perhaps both.jamalrob

    Ah, I see you've done your homework while in Russia :) It's an iconic image, but somehow perhaps due to the historic remoteness or to its fastidious realist execution, it doesn't seem to have the same emotional impact as, say, the Guernica.
  • Jamal
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    Ah, I see you've done your homework while in Russia :) It's an iconic image, but somehow perhaps due to the historic remoteness or to its fastidious realist execution, it doesn't seem to have the same emotional impact as, say, the Guernica.SophistiCat

    Yes, I know what you mean. When I first saw it, at the Tretyakov Gallery, I was unmoved as I wandered past staring at it vacantly. Only later I realized, oh, wait a minute, that was a pile of human skulls being picked clean by crows, and I should have experienced it as a stunning indictment of war.
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