Off the Walls: Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks by Sarah Waldorf
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I simply could not get anough of these as they began to appear on Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere as the Covid quarantine settled in. Witty, hilarious, inventive and endlessly creative, people ransacked their cupboards and closets to stage-manage dozens of famous works of art, re-enacting them for their cameras with themselves, their kids, cats, dogs, toilet paper rolls, Lego people and pasta. The Getty Museum has assembled them in this little book, showing the original art inspiration and one or more of the populist versions. The illustrations are also on the small side, so sit down with a good light, and marvel. Some made me laugh till I cried (p. 123). Vermeer should be beaming at what his girl and her pearl earring have wrought (p. 55 took my breath away), and some should make the original artists wish they’d thought of that (p. 119). I’m still thinking I can get my border collie to help me with Andrew Wyeth’s Master Bedroom… maybe the next edition. Tremendous fun!
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