What is a famous painting that would be easy to imitate?

February 18, 2010 by famous · 6 Comments
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Kuro x Fai Mekkyo! asked:

also a link to the image would be great

so here’s the deal:
in photography class, we had to pick a famous painting and have someone imitate it to the best of our ability and then photograph it, but i can’t think of a painting(i don’t wanna use something obvious like the mona lisa). anyone have any ideas?

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6 Responses to “What is a famous painting that would be easy to imitate?”
  1. Bullett says:
    February 19, 2010 at 1:52 am

    Some paintings by Picasso are quite easy to re-create! Search on google images :-) Bullett

  2. sam_carter_mckay says:
    February 22, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    Here are a few that i think might qualify, I’ll post picture links for you as well.

    Edvard Munch’s most famous painting, “The Scream” is just abstract enough to be easy to imitate.

    Matisse’s “Green Stripe” The color blending in the painting is not overly complex and the brush strokes are rather thick.

    Warren Kimball “The American Farm” has a rather coloring book attitude to the style but just enough pattern and detail to shine through.

    Piet Mondrain “COMPOSITION RED/BLUE/YELLOW”
    Overly simplistic but perfect for the lazy art imitator lol.

    Also paintings without people tend to be easier to copy. But the more people in the painting itself the easier to do as they lose alot of defined details the smaller the subject.

    I also suggest sketching these out grid style it make it easier.

    Hope you find the right one! sam_carter_mckay

  3. thissentancenoverb says:
    February 25, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    picasso’s guernica
    based on the bombing of guernica
    simple black and white without any real shading, the only thing that may be tough is proportions(just use a grid) thissentancenoverb

  4. Alabaster says:
    February 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    I’m assuming that what you mean by “have someone imitate it” is that you’re going to get someone (or more than one person) to model for you, then you photograph them. If I’m assuming correctly, then I’d go for one of these:

    “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer:

    “The Day Dream” by Dante Gabriel Rosetti:

    “Prosperine” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

    “Ophelia” by J.W. Waterhouse: Alabaster

  5. Scottish Dachsy says:
    March 1, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    Try some of the impressionists like Monet or Chagall’s Paris through a Window or Fiddler on the Roof. Scottish Dachsy

  6. Anarchlown says:
    March 4, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    You could be ultra-super-post-postmodern and do Gilbert and George: photographs imitating photographs that imitate paintings. Anarchlown

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