If Christmas Eve isn’t a holiday at your office and you find yourself stuck in a cubicle feeling resentful with nothing to do, take a cue from these two Squarespace employees in New York. The looked no further than an art history book and an iPhone camera to find endless entertainment by recreating famous paintings, many of which required some creative drag.
The only rule was that all costumes and props had to come from office supplies.
Take a look:
“The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer, 1665
“Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-1506
“Blonde Beauty” by Walt Otto, circa 1950?s
“The Son of Man” by Rene Magritte, 1964
“Napoleon Crossing the Alps” by Jacques-Louis David, 1801
“Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene After the Resurrection” by Alexander Ivanov, 1835
“Two Ballet Dancers” by Edgar Degas, c. 1879
“Portrait of a Man in a Turban” by Jan van Eyck, 1433
“Thinking About Death” Frida Kahlo, 1943
“Timoclea uccide il capitano di Alessandro Magno” by Elisabetta Sirani, 1659
“The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” by Rembrandt, c.1632
“Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth, 1948
“Tommaso di Folco Portinari” by Hans Memling, 1470
“The Old Guitarist” by Pablo Picasso, 1903-1904
“Lady and the Unicorn: Sight,” c. 1500
“David with the Head of Goliath” by Caravaggio, 1610
“The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, 1511-1512
[h/t MyModernNet]
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1898
Squarespace is a web site hosting company. Why do they have all that costumey stuff just lying around the office?
Lvng1Tor
What kind of office has so many fake horse heads just hanging around?
jwtraveler
FABULOUS!
demented
These guys need to be bored more often!