Reimagining a Masterpiece

By Margret Aldrich
Published on November 18, 2011
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What would you do to improve on the Mona Lisa? Our friends at Booooooom!, the Vancouver-based art blog, are asking photographers to flex their creative muscles by remaking classic works of art. A sampling of the amazing results from the Remake project–modernizing paintings by Rembrandt, Ingres, van Gogh, Lichtenstein, and others–follows.

Above: Grande Odalisque remake, by Craig White

Above: Grande Odalisque, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Above: Ohhh…Alright… remake, by Emily Kiel

Above: Ohhh…Alright…, by Roy Lichtenstein

Above: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp remake, by Bruna Pelissari

Above: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, by Rembrandt

Above: Self Portrait 1889 remake, by Seth Johnson

Above: Self Portrait 1889, by Vincent van Gogh

Above: Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs remake, by Emile Barret

Above: Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs, by unkown artist

Check out the Remake project website for more iconic works, redefined.

Source: Booooooom!

Images courtesy of Booooooom!

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