Francesca Busca creates incredible Arties during lockdown…
‘Sharing the love for Art with a laugh: recreating artwork with things found at home, embracing the Getty Museum challenge. One Artie a day during Lockdown 2020.
Arties were made by a ‘one-woman band’, whilst the brilliant soundtrack was kindly composed ad hoc by Moreno Andreatta (www.morenoandreatta.com).
What started as a friend’s challenge for a laugh soon became a daily appointment…and created an amusing bond among quarantined souls worldwide. It was fun and rewarding, especially seeing the tremendous feedback of participation – and challenges! – I was receiving. Such a positive exchange of energy!
Lockdown or not, I hope it will inspire you to do the same: it is also a great way to review artworks under a completely different light, bringing you closer both to the artist and to the subject portrayed. I will now remember each artwork in detail and, most likely, forever!
Why not show it to your children (or pupils, or friends) and try to do the same? Which one will you try first – are there any of these you like in particular? Any other artwork you would have liked to see? Please, do make sure to let me know in your comments – you never know what might come out of it! I am all eyes and ears…’
Reproduced artworks:
Escaping criticism (Borrell)
Hellenistic Mask (Heraklitos)
Medusa (Caravaggio)
Young man in a top hat (Agasse)
The dancer Moa (Schiele)
Mother and daughter (Schiele)
Self-portrait with monkey and parrot (Frida Kahlo)
Marsyas (Permoser)
Agnus Dei (Zurbarán)
Woman with black hair (Schiele)
Kneeling woman in a red dress (Schiele)
My sister Gerta (Schiele)
Cicero (Magritte)
Seated woman with her left hand in her hair (Schiele)
José Pacheco (Modigliani)
Seated woman, wiping her left side (Degas)
Discobolus (Myron) [“Rotulobolus”]
Self-portrait (Schiele)
Roman head
The scream (Munch)
The cradle (Morisot)
La Gioconda (Leonardo)
Not to be reproduced (Magritte)
Lady with an ermine (Leonardo)
Henry VIII (Holbein)
Drunken Hercules (Herculaneum/British Museum)
The absinthe Drinkers (Degas)
The kiss (Klimt) [“Self-kissolation”]
Man with a glove (Titian)
El loco (Picasso)
The three ages of woman (Klimt)
Bojar woman (Zhuravlev)
Untitled (Dalí)
Self-portrait (Brack)
La Madonna della seggiola (Raphael)
The nostalgy of the poet (De Chirico)
Edith Schiele (Schiele)
Johanna Staude (Klimt)
Woman with black stockings (Schiele)
Hidden Van Ravesteyn (Volker Hermes)
Hidden Petronella (Volker Hermes)
Hidden Fournier (Volker Hermes)
The black feather hat (Klimt)
Barbara Van Beck (Unknown)
Valerie Neuzil (Schiele)
Reclining woman with blonde hair (Schiele)
Reclining woman with green stockings (Schiele)
Hidden Hodges (Volker Hermes)
Hidden Purbus (Volker Hermes)
Young lady in 1866 (Manet)
La loge (Renoir)
Jane Avril 1 (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Jane Avril 2 (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Narcissus (Caravaggio)
The priestess of Bacchus (Collier)
Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)
The faithful friend (Boldini)
Madame Manet on a blue sofa (Manet)
Paris through the window (Chagall)
The acrobat / Il saltimbanco (Mancini)
Hidden Singleton Copley (Volker Hermes)
La clownesse assise (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Large interior. Paddington (L. Freud)
May Belfort (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Youth making a face (Brouwer)
The absinthe drinker (Picasso)
Marilyn II – 31 (Warhol)
The persistence of memory (Dalí)
Squatting girl (Schiele) [REVISITED]
Standing by the rags (L. Freud) [REVISITED]
A young girl arranging a bouquet (Wallis)
Roman girls in bikinis (athletes) (Villa ROmana del Casale)
The death of Chatterton (Wallis)
Dance au Bougival (Renoir)
Figure study II (Bacon)
