Statuesqe! ~bjd in art (the game)

OOOOKay Nati was so excited to do this ( i think because she got to be topless) but then she refused to stand for me so it's kind of a crappy photo but yea

venice demilo

 

Great idea! I am planning a whole slew of these. They are such fun.

I hope we can post photos already taken as I did this one of my Sard a few weeks ago. I will post others as I complete them.

 

Eat your heart out, Michelangelo.
The pose isn't spot-on, so I'll probably be retaking this.

 

Well, here we have one Mr. Ilya Zarenko reenacting Richard Avedon's rawther infamous 1981 portrait of Nastassja Kinski...



Of course Ilya would never stop at just one portrait, so there is a whole series. I took these sometime last March... but I had been planning to recreate the famous Kinski pin-up since shortly after Ilya's arrival in 2006. St. James gave me this fab rubber python (it was the last survivor from my costume after the drunken premiere of Snakes on a Plane), and Ilya adopted it immediately. And named it Nastassja, yes.

This doll has always struck me as one of those really basically serpentine sort of guys.... I've known plenty of that sort, in my day, but Ilya is only the second one who consented to be photographed nude with a snake.

 

I never saw this thread before! Thank you, Jenny Nemesis, for pointing it out to me. Here's Rho Beta (Batchix' Machina Alpha), as you suggested:



But I also have Elfdoll Catsys' homage to Edouard Manet's Olympia

 

Oh, thank you, JennyNemesis, I'm glad you like the pics. Do you think it would be okay to extend the categories to include film scenes or book jacket art? I've got a couple of those already.
I also have this "Dutch painting" which is not a copy of anything specific, just generic Old Dutch.

 

Not exactly the same as the original painting but its my rendition of Degas' painting "The Waiting"

 

The Catsys aren't quite re-enacting the art here, just adding a little something to it.
Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night...



and his The Night Cafe

 

Venus and Rho Beta

 

W. Eugene Smith's The Wake

 

Judy Merrell's "Adonis"

 

Dorothea Lange's Depression Era photo, "Migrant Mother"

 

Rene Magritte's "The Son of Man"
Now titled "The Son of Fluffy"

 

Vitruvian man

 

My take on "Patrocles" by Jacques Louis David

 

I got some too! Some of them are quite old, but I'd like to share them here:

Here is my Unidoll Jace in Dr. Tulp's Anatomy Lesson by Rembrand



This is Iplehouse Akando in Creation of Adam by Michelangelo



And here the latest ones, my Jungatoy D-Skulls (on Dikadoll bodies)

Whistlers Mother by James McNeill Whistler



American Gothic by Grant Wood

 

These are great, Sadomina, but the last one cracked me up! Bumping this thread up, since we just had an Anniversary Contest a lot like this game and it was fun to see what people did.

 

Good thinking Rosslyn, there were lots of fab pictures in the anniversary thread! My tinies may not have recreated Hieronymus Bosch's vision of heaven, hell and purgatory quite the way he imagined it (original here), but they had frenetic fun nonetheless!

 

Shrinkomatic, I loved your Bosch! In fact I'm so glad I didn't have to judge that contest... there were so many great ideas and executions up in there! I would've cast at least 20 votes. Death of Marat is one of my alltime favorite paintings, and then we had American Gothic and Leda & the Swan and Frida Kahlo too... (I have a big soft spot for Teh Frida). It was wonderful. I always wondered why this thread here has never gotten beyond page 2 when we have so many talented art-reconstructors out there. xD

For the contest, I updated a notion that I'd already done halfway before (years ago) on page 1... This time I took out the color & the backdrop (deconstructed my old halfassed approach) & did more effort to mimic the real thing (reconstruction w00t!). Damn, though, it is reeeeally hard to get the lush shimmer-and-darkness of gelatin silver prints merely by throwing a BW filter on a point-and-shoot Elph camera. Richard Avedon I am not. ;;

But that's neither here nor there. Here is Take Two: Starring Ilya (Iplehouse tan Soo Ri) and Nastassja (pet snake) as Avedon's "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, June 14, 1981"

 

I'm glad to see this thread re-opened. I was surprised to see it closed and more surprised that the idea was then used in the anniversary contest! Art-inspired doll pics are some of my favorites.

I also did the Grant Wood thing awhile back.

American Kitteh by bentwhisker, on Flickr

my contest entry, Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

Nude Kitty Descending a Staircase, No. 1 -- inspired by... by bentwhisker, on Flickr

Degas' Little Dancer

Inspired by... by bentwhisker, on Flickr

Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait

Inspired by... by bentwhisker, on Flickr

van Gogh's Self-portrait with bandaged ear

Inspired by... by bentwhisker, on Flickr

 

I'm going to post again to keep this thread going. We need more contributors!!
La Celestina by Pablo Picasso,from his Blue Period

1984 National Geographic cover photo

 

Three years already?!
by Alberto Pla y Rubio by Nadine, on Flickr

Rene Magritte's Good Faith by Nadine, on Flickr

 

I love the theme of this thread, it's such a good idea. Congratulations everybody !
I've tried to copy "The Milkmaid" by Vermeer (1658) because it's a wonderful painting. Chanel is temporary the milkmaid

 

This is an unfinished concept I had from last year. It is Jessica recreating a classic Gil Elvgren pinup painting.

I had planned on taking Jessica to the beach to make a more proper recreation, but I didn't get the chance last year. I only got as far as testing the pose on a regular floor. I was also exploring ideas for stabilizing the pose on the sand. I may revisit this concept again this year. It won't be a 100% flawless recreation, but I think it will be nice. I've got some miniatures that I can at least use as a stand-in for some of the things in the painting, but I didn't include them in the photo. It was mostly about recreating the pose. It's difficult with the Iplehouse EID body, but it's not impossible.

This is the original painting: http://image.hnol.net/c/2012-07/08/14/201207081431511261-513051.jpg

 

This is my Dollfie Dream Dynamite Alna recreating And So The Story Ends by Charles Wheeler. This is a very special painting for me. I happened to see someone's photo of it on display in a museum in Australia, and I fell in love with it. I knew I needed it in my life, so I went looking for a poster or something that I could buy and put on my wall. Well, I ended up buying a painted reproduction of it a couple years ago.

One of the reasons I liked this painting so much is that it reminded me of my Iplehouse SID Eva. Unfortunately, I haven't yet done a recreation of the painting with my Eva. It's like I'm afraid to try in case I don't do it well With my Alna up there, it was rather easy because of her internal skeleton, but it was only really a test shot.

Here's a photo of my own copy of the painting, but bear in mind my lighting isn't the greatest. The upper right corner looks terrible in the pic while it's fine in real life.: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1555/26331244280_6577a823da_o.jpg

 

Mona Lisa smile
Mona? by Nadine, on Flickr

 

I'm definitively fan of this gallery !

For this adaptation of Edvard Munch's painting, I only had to remove my doll's head and replace it by an upside down ocarina: its back strangely looks like the character of this masterpiece.

The SCREAM, Edvard Munch, 1893

 

Francesco Hayez - The Kiss

The Kiss Artistic by Tom Beach, on Flickr

Grant Wood - American Gothic

BJD Gothic by Tom Beach, on Flickr

 

Oooh! This one again. I have done a shedload since I last posted. I have done a couple of direct copies, but have been more interested in pastiches, so doing a photo in the style of an artist. It's a great way to analyse techniques that might then inform one's own work.

A Holbein pastiche



A copy of Van Eyck's Man in a Turban



A modern, dolly take on Rembrandt's style.



And a sort of take on Holman Hunt's Take your Son, Sir.

 

A sillier version of Vermeer's "The Milkmaid"
The Milkegg by Nadine, on Flickr

 

Once again, congratulations to all for your amazing work !
This time, it's a drawing "Lovers" by Raymond Peynet, that I've tried to adapt. Peynet was a French sketcher (1908-1999).

Les Amoureux de Peynet, with Byron (Dollzone) and Garance (Gana/Souldoll) :

 

Edvard Munch's The Scream
The Silent Scream by Nadine, on Flickr

 

The artist at work...

The Persistence of Albumen by Nadine, on Flickr

 

All smiles by Nadine, on Flickr

 

What a fun thread, thank you for pointing me to it! Here is my take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece:


White Swan / by @wolfsbane.art by Dolls Addict, on Flickr

 

Eggy version of Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
Kurtina's World by Nadine, on Flickr

 

These are great! In 2014, my friends had an art based challenge & then made a calendar with our photos.
I chose Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Mnemosyne" for my photo using my Migidoll Yuri on a Sr.Delf body.



although I like the colors in this version better...
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f56/LionHeartHats/Mnemosyne.jpg
Mnemosyne (Rossetti) - Wikipedia

 

Jan van Eggck, from Jan van Eyck's believed self portrait
Jan van Eggck by Nadine, on Flickr

 

Frida Kahlo by Humpty-Dumpty
Natural beauty by Nadine, on Flickr

 

Christina'a World.

Winter in Christina's World by Tom Beach, on Flickr

 

Vincent van Eggogh by Nadine, on Flickr

 

This thread has grown slowly so I thought I would add a couple of scenes from a famous movie.
I'm sure the settings and characters will be recognized and are iconic enough to be called art.

These are Humpty in mint and sand resin colors.

 

Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Gautier-Dagoty
marieportrait by Laura Davison, on Flickr

 

Tidy up by Nadine, on Flickr

 

Keeping the thread alive. Literature is art too, here is a scene from Marcel Proust's In search of lost time.

In search of lost time by Nadine, on Flickr