Some 350,000 people are following the group, where thousands of photos are posted, each showing the original work and the mockup made at home. The rules say it must only use items on hand and can’t be digitally manipulated.
Due to the ongoing lockdown, Russians can’t go to their beloved and renowned museums. So they’re filling the holes in their souls by recreating artworks while stuck at home and posting them on social media.
The Facebook group, Art-Isolation (Izoizolyatsiya, in Russian), where the works are posted has become a huge hit. They’re done both by Russians and Russian-speakers abroad.
There are some impressive surprises in the collection. Vitaly Fonarev carefully recreated the clothes and headdress of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” and captured the Dutch artist’s famous glowing light. The work is so convincing that it takes a few moments to notice that the “girl” actually is a man with a few days’ worth of beard stubble.
Unlike the hours of work that went into elaborate recreations, some appear to have been knocked off in a matter of minutes but are no less appealing.
Natalia Rubina’s rendition of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” involved simply making a hole in a poster of the painting at the spot showing an anguished man’s head, then getting a dog to stick its head through. The dog appears nonplussed.
Natalia Rubina’s rendition of Edvard Munch's “The Scream”. (Facebook/Natalia Rubina)
Katrusya Kosilkova employed an extensive palette of paints and careful brushwork to make her face a copy of the garish colours and fractured perspective of Picasso’s “Weeping Woman.” It was time well-spent, in her view.
Katerina Brudnaya-Chelyadinova, a co-founder of the project, is pleased by the wide attention it has received.
220,000 people have already joined Art-Isolation's Facebook group since it was created on March 30.
Source: TheMoscowTimes.com
