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Famous Art Recreations Getty Museum Challenge
In Frida Kahlo’s 1941 self-portrait “Yo y Mis Pericos,” four parrots are perched on the artist’s shoulders and lap. In Alana Archer’s recreation, cleaning products stand in for the parrots. Painting belongs to Harold H. Stream Collection in New Orleans. Photo by Archer
Alana Archer, an interior designer in Kelowna, British Columbia, was inspired by the 1941 Kahlo painting “Me and My Parrots,” which shows four colorful parrots perched on the artist’s shoulders and in her lap. The parrots almost act like guard dogs for the Mexican artist, who suffered through years of chronic pain. For her variation on the self-portrait, Archer swapped parrots for a spray bottle and detergent, all of which happened to be green.
Famous Art Recreations Getty Museum Challenge.
On the left is a Keith Haring cover art image for a 1992 benefit record. On the right is a recreation of the iconic Haring imagery by a family in Vancouver. Haring image belongs to The Keith Haring Estate. Photo by Marian De Gier
In this restaging, someone wears a green bodysuit and holds a red pillow overhead. Hands belonging to people standing out of the frame hold up sheets of paper with the bold, black lines indicating movement as seen in Haring’s image. Beasley wondered if this rework was done by a group of roommates cooped up during the pandemic.
Bryan Beasley said the submission that inspired him to do his own was a rework of Keith Haring’s cover art for a 1992 remix record, which helped raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The cover had all of Haring’s trademark images: a colorful pop art figure, lines indicating movement, and a big red heart.
Photographer Bryan Beasley captured this image of his daughter Layla, who helped him recreate the scene in Édouard Manet’s “Jeanne (Spring).” inside their Los Angeles home. Painting courtesy of J. Paul Getty Museum. Photo recreation by Bryan Beasley
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