Video: A girl from St. Petersburg became famous all over the world, recreating classic paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
During the last protracted quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, many people, exhausted from boredom and idleness, discovered new, completely unusual activities. For example, Elizaveta Yukhneva from St. Petersburg came up with an exciting challenge. She recreated some classic canvas every day. The Petersburg woman was so carried away by the process and gained such wild success on the Internet that instead of the planned thirty paintings, she created a hundred more!
It all started with quarantined boredom. In the spring, the American Getty Museum offered everyone suffering from longing for self-isolation an exciting activity - to recreate famous works of art at home. Elizabeth decided that this was a great idea that would help a huge number of people learn more about high art.
From the height of her experience now, Yukhneva has reason to assert that her works force the viewer to examine classical canvases very carefully, without missing a single detail. High art is actually much closer to us than we think.
The girl makes all the preparations from start to finish herself. Costumes, lighting, makeup, and even filming. In the course of her work, Yukhneva learned a lot in the field of photography. By the way, her pictures are not processed by any special applications. It only adjusts the color gamut.
At first, Lisa decided to recreate one painting a day, for a month, as an interesting experiment and for the sake of self-discipline. She posted her work on social networks. The Challenge was an incredible success. The Petersburg woman decided not to be satisfied with what has already been achieved and to continue development in this direction.
Elizaveta Yukhneva is an art critic by education, this prompted her to accept the challenge and do this business, because the love of beauty is in the blood of a girl. She believes that in this way classical art will become more accessible to the broad masses of people.
According to the girl, the choice of paintings is different each time. Sometimes the canvas just comes to mind by itself, sometimes it catches the eye in a book or on the Internet. Elizabeth immediately determines whether it is or not and considers the choice for all her works not accidental.
In order to recreate a picture, Lisa takes from a little less than an hour to three whole hours. The most difficult in this regard were Leonardo da Vinci's "Beautiful Ferroniera" and Titian's "Girl in front of a mirror". It was very difficult to recreate makeup and hairstyles on these canvases; it took a lot of additional props. Among other things, it is incredibly difficult to convey exactly the facial expression that makes the picture unique. It takes a huge amount of shots to catch it.
Things that Elizabeth usually uses as props, she tries to choose the most similar to those depicted. It often happens that completely unexpected things performed the desired function. Some items were not used at all for their intended purpose.
The girl takes pictures on her phone. I had to learn a lot of new information on how to control the gadget when shooting, so that it was convenient. Yukhneva also learned how to make an almost professional make-up from improvised cosmetics. To do this, Lisa looked on the Internet for online lessons on theatrical makeup technique.
The girl says that she does it simply because it turned out to be extremely interesting and exciting. Lisa believes that the main thing in her works is that she tries to do everything as close as possible to the original source. Sometimes it is difficult, because the heroine does not always correspond to the type of Lisa, and everyone is very different anatomically. The girl gets real pleasure from her transformations. It is very interesting for her to try on such a variety of images, to feel the whole range of emotions of the heroes. At the same time, it is very important to convey the true spirit and mood of each picture.
There are many different people on social media and everyone has different reactions. Some consider it a whim, while others express admiration and gratitude for the work. Many people write their opinions to Elizabeth, showing support and thanks for the fact that it was her work that helped them look at famous works of art in a completely new way.
Media people from different parts of Russia and the world contact Yukhneva. The girl's work was even shown on local television in Japan. Elizabeth was offered a job on the set of two whole documentaries about creative research during quarantine.
The pandemic took a lot from us, but many still managed to discover new talents in themselves. Interestingly, back in the 19th century, Mary Shelley wrote a prophetic novel about the events taking place in the world now, read about this in our article the best reading for a pandemic: the author of "Frankenstein" in the 19th century wrote a prophetic novel about the coronavirus.
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