12 of 12, April 2015

I’ve had the idea for this month’s 12 of 12 for a while now, but wasn’t sure if I’d have time to pull it off. Even going for the rough-and-ready approach I’ve taken these still took a bit longer to do than I could really afford, but I had some fun doing them.

So, I present my 12 of 12 tribute to some of the classics of the art world. It is best to call them “interpretations”; it would take considerably more effort — plus an assistant since it was really hard to do this on my own — to get better matched resemblances.

The titles link to the copies of the original works, as housed elsewhere on the web.

Detail of The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo)

The Scream (Edvard Munch)

Nude [Legs] Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Marcel Duchamp)

The Milkmaid (Johannes Vermeer)

Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)

First Class Marksman (Ned Kelly Series) (Sidney Nolan)

The Monarch of the Glen (Sir Edwin Landseer)
(described by Bill Oddie, in an episode of The Goodies, as a cow with twigs stuck to its head)

American Gothic (Grant Wood)
(okay, so I don’t have a pitchfork)

La Trahison des Images (René Magritte)

Drawing Hands (Maurits Cornelis Escher)

The Thinker (Le Penseur) (Auguste Rodin) 

The Pioneer [third panel] (Frederick McCubbin)