Getty Museum Challenge: Put Yourself in Art History
The Getty Museum Challenge
What is the Getty Museum Challenge?
This Challenge was created during the Spring of 2020 from the Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles, California to entertain, inform, and connect people using art during the quarantine as they remained socially distanced at home. The museum challenged society to recreate famous works of art in the safety and comfort of their own home. They were told to use their creativity and their imagination in their use of materials and settings. Some people dawned costumes, other recreated scenery with toys, some even used their pets as props.
Did you join in while you were home in the Spring of 2020? What did you dress as? What was the famous artwork called and what was the original artist's name?
Please watch the video about the Getty Museum Challenge...
After watching the video, please take a look at the examples on the following link to this blog relating to the book that is now created from the photographs sent into the Getty Museum in the Spring. Which image stands out to you the most? Why? When you're done viewing the images and you picked your favorite, click on the FlipGrid button to submit your response to the image.
TURN IT IN
For this project, you will seek out a famous piece of art, whether it is a painting, drawing, sculpture, architectural feat, or digital art piece. You will study this piece, analyze it, interpret it, and then recreate it... consider the materials you will use to recreate it: be original! What props will you use? Your pets? Food? Toilet Paper? Then, once you are "in the art" you will either have a tripod set up to take a photo of yourself or ask someone else to take a photo of you.
BUT, it doesn't stop there... keep in mind, this is not simple Photography but rather Digital Art. You will edit your photo somehow: lighting, color contrasts, saturation, photoshopping other objects into the image to add more details and composition, etc. Make sure you save the ORIGINAL. While you edit and change the photo, save it as a COPY. You will submit both the original photograph and the edited copy.
Please submit BOTH photos to Google Classroom for full credit.