This morning, in the fever of social networks, Roxane returns to a cultural challenge initiated on Twitter by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles: to recreate at home key works of the history of Art and that we find in the collection. of the museum.
The cultural world is on pause at the moment due to the Coronavirus epidemic. Fortunately, social networks allow us to continue to have access to culture.
Museums in particular are suffering from this epidemic and have had to close their doors in most countries affected by Covid-19. Despite everything, some of them have decided to make it a strength and use social networks to meet their confined audience!
I’m telling you about one of them this morning. A museum that offers us a creative, cultural challenge and that will make you travel a little (if you can’t do it for real): the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
A must-see museum forced to close its doors
The Getty Museum is a must-see place in Los Angeles both for its architecture and for its collection of priceless works of art. Each year, it attracts many visitors, tourists or art lovers from all over the world.
Like many other tourist and public places, the American museum is affected by measures to combat the Covid-19 epidemic and is closed until further notice. A situation that the institution has decided to take advantage of!
A challenge on Twitter: reproduce the works of the Getty Museum
The Californian museum invites its fans on Twitter to reproduce, at home, the emblematic works of its collection then to share them on Twitter #GettyChallenge.
The objective of this challenge is to make the collection known to as many people as possible and to stimulate the creativity of the public.
It was launched on the museum’s Twitter account last week.
We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.
???? Choose your favorite artwork
???? Find three things lying around your house⠀
???? Recreate the artwork with those itemsAnd share with us. pic.twitter.com/9BNq35HY2V
— Getty (@GettyMuseum) March 25, 2020
And as much to say that Internet users have shown a lot of inventiveness to recreate the works. The proposals are often very funny, made with objects that everyone finds at home. Pets, children… Everyone is involved.
We thus find biblical paintings reconstituted with the whole family, a little girl who reproduces Vermeer’s Milkmaida Virgin and Child with a dog in place of Christ… The ingenuity of Internet users in reconstructing the works as closely as possible is to be welcomed and the challenge also allows us to (re)discover iconic works from the history of art.
Here are some examples of creations posted on the thread Twitter du Getty Museum :
The Milkmaid, Vermeer – ©Getty Museum
The Virgin and Child – ©Getty Museum
The death of Marat, Jean-Louis David – ©Getty Museum
Mother and her child, Gustave Klimt – ©Getty Museum
Two boys with a bladder, Joseph Wright of Derby – ©Getty Museum
A challenge initiated on Twitter that brings art closer to its audience
The social media manager of Getty Museum explains that the museum’s followers were looking for cultural activities and that they wanted to discover the museum’s collection and learn more about Art in general, even confined to their homes. The project was therefore born out of a request from the museum’s public to stay connected to the cultural world by staying at home.
The little extra of this initiative, according to her, is that it revives the creative and ingenious side of people and that is good for morale.
The initiative has met with great success with more than 7,000 proposals on Twitter.
This is a good way to bring art to its audience and make it more accessible for everyone with a very fun side that will appeal to parents as well as children (and even pets).
Roxane also made her contribution to the #GettyChallenge by reproducing, as she said this morning, Still Life with Apples by Paul Cézanne.
Still Life with Apples by Paul Cézanne and its version revisited by Roxane
The museum shared some reproductions on its Instagram account @gettymuseum and you can find out ici the museum’s collection if you want to participate in the #GettyChallenge challenge too.