The prestige and dignity of art – contrary to any spontaneous interest – is what seems to keep people visiting museums, so these casual reinterpretations are a welcome change!
It would seem that art is not just here ‘for art’s sake,’ and this challenge might help us to look at our surroundings with a new sense of creativity.
Inspiration
This type of recreations makes us ponder, and isn't that precisely what art is supposed to make us do? Some might say that the purpose of art is to lend inspiration and consolation concerning the challenges of being human.
How fitting that this challenge went viral in 2020, maybe you have an artwork in mind that you would like to recreate?
Everyday Art
There are countless versions of the Madonna and Child, but none like this participant's quarantine version. What makes this version particularly spectacular is how the featured French bulldog captures the same cherub-like yearning look at the Madonna as in the original.
We can just imagine how art scholars and experts alike are going debate for years to come about these comparisons!
Modern Interpretations
It's been said that art museums are now our new cathedrals: in other words, that art can bring us together and heal us as religions once did. Are these modern interpretations, helping us connect with strangers and reconsidering what art really is for.
This adaptation was very true to the original! It almost seems as if they could have been two images taken after the girl with the pearl earring grew up a little!
What is Art?
Diego Rivera masterfully created The Flower Carrier, and like many of Rivera's paintings, this famous painting imparts simplicity, but it also carries significant meaning. While the basket of flowers is strikingly beautiful to us as observers, the man does not see their beauty, but only feels their value as he carries them to the market te sell.
Some suppose that the heavy basket strapped to the man's back is representative of the burdens that workers face in our modern world.