This Woman Recreates One Famous Classic Painting a Day for a Year, Brings Progress to Another Level

Ilya Repin “Princess Sofia Alekseyevna” (1879)

Liza Yukhnyova from Saint Petersburg, Russia, perfectly gets into characters of famous masterpieces. Her mastery does not look like entertainment but claims to be called art.

According to an artist: “I really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much closer than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail. I think it’s important.

I started to imitate pieces of art for the #gettychallenge. At the beginning, I decided to do it daily for 30 days, but at the end of this period, I couldn’t stop. I’m still continuing and now I am on day 130. I have recreated Middle Eastern galleries, ancient, Indian, Red Cross posters, and others.

I do everything on my own: makeup, costumes, lighting with a table lamp, and shooting just with my phone’s camera, using very simple things which surround me at home.”

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John Collier “Priestess Of Delphi” (1891)

Remzi Taşkıran “Portrait Of A Girl” (1961)

Tamara De Lempicka “Pink Tunic” (1927)

John William Waterhouse “Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May” (1908)

René Gruau “Illustration For Dior” (~1950)

Caravaggio “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (1599)

Tito Conti “An Italian Beauty” (~1880)

Konstantin Makovsky “Portrait Of Countess Yusupova In The Russian Costume” (1900)

John Everett Millais “Sophie Gray” (1857)

Abram Arhipov “Woman In A Green Dress” (~1900)

John William Godward “His Birthday Gift” (1889)

Theodoros Rallis “Odalisque” (~1900)

Khariton Platonovich Platonov “Portrait Of A Woman” (1903)

Giovanni Boldini “Portrait Of Lina Cavalieri” (1901)

Vladimir Makovsky “Tete-A-Tete” (1909)

Frederick Arthur Bridgman “Woman Of Algiers” (~1900)

Hermann Winterhalter “Portrait Of Clémentine De Boubers, Baronne Renouard De Bussierre” (1854)

Jean-Francois Portaels “The Necklace” (~1850)

Paul Cesar Helleu “Portrait Of Lady With A Fan” (~1900)

Leonardo Da Vinci “La Belle Ferronnière” (1490)

Jean-Marc Nattier “Madame Victoire De France” (1748)

Karl Bryullov “The Last Day Of Pompeii” (1830-33)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo “Two Women At A Window” (1655-60)

Tiziano Vecelli “Woman With A Mirror” (~1515)

William Etty “The Seamstress” (~1820)

Giorgione “Judith” (1504)

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov “Portrait Of NF Matveeva” (1909)

Frederick Leighton “Nausicaa” (1878)

Charles Landelle “Judith” (1870)

Anders Zorn “Frieda Schiff, Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg” (1894)

Henry Inman “Hayne Hujihini, Eagle Of Delight” (1832-33)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter “The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal As Crown Princess Of Prussia” (1867)

Giuseppe Maria Crespi “Woman Looking For Fleas” (~1710)

Eleanor M. Ross “Edith Cavell” (1917)

John Singer Sargent “Lady Agnew Of Lochnaw” (1892)

Ilya Repin “Leisure” (1882)

Raja Ravi Varma “The Maharani Of Travancore” (1887)

Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje “Spanish Beauty” (1880)

Edwin Long “A Votary Of Isis” (1891)

Filipp Malyavin “Peasant With Red Scarf” (1905)

John Collier “Portrait Of A Lady In Oriental Costume” (~ 1900)

Ivan Argunov “Peasant Woman In Russian Costume” (1784)

Alexey Venetsianov “Girl In A Scarf” (~1820)

Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov “Portrait Of A Woman” (1960s)

Elizabeth Sonrell “Cordelia” (~1901)

Aykut Aydogdu “Next Chapter”

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky “Poor Lisa” (1827)

Charles François Prosper Guérin “Girl Reading A Book” (1906)

Anders Zorn “Burden” (1886)

Ali Nemah “Resident Of Baghdad”

Viktor Vasnetsov “Alenushka” (1881)

Peter Paul Rubens “Rubens’s Daughter Clara Serena” (1623)