Art Recreation Is the Only Good Instagram Challenge

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Katy Kelleher

AFrancesco De Grazia recreating Caravaggio’s “Boy With a Basket of Fruit.”

For weeks, people have been recreating works of fine art using household items and posting their tableaus on social media. At a time when museums are closed, galleries have shuttered and art education has largely moved online, these images have formed a living archive of creativity in isolation. Tens of thousands of recreations appear under the hashtags #mettwinning, #betweenartandquarantine and #gettymuseumchallenge. Some have been made by arts professionals, but many of them are the skillful works of amateurs. For a month, Anneloes Officier  has been collecting submissions and posting them on the Instagram account @tussenkunstenquarantaine (a reference the Dutch television program “Tussen Kunst en Kitsch,” whose title means “between art and kitsch”). [More]