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The 31-year-old Belarusian living in Texas
placed three blinis in her kitchen to match their position in
the Dali painting, then photographed and posted her creation in
a Russian-language Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/
groups/izoizolyacia encouraging members to reproduce famous
artworks with items found at home.
Created last week, "Izoizolyacia" - or Art Isolation - now has
more than 300,000 members and a flurry of posts that include
Edvard Munch's "Scream" made of slippers and clothes, and
Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" composed of socks hanging from
a towel rack.
Some participants have also dressed themselves and family
members in elaborate costumes -- or shed layers -- to reproduce
portraits of the past with varying degrees of accuracy.
"There is lots of free time now and I loved how people were
starting to become absorbed by art," said Goroshko, a mother of
two who has a background in graphic design and photography.
The Russian-language Facebook group joins similar online
initiatives, including a Dutch Instagram account with 155,000
followers, that have encouraged people in quarantine to channel
their artistic talents to recreate masterpieces.
Muscovite Yulia Tabolkina, a painting enthusiast, swapped her
brushes and palette for whatever she could find in the pantry to
create her own versions of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and
Munch's "Scream."
She used lentils, buckwheat, beans and other food items to
produce different shades and used her windowsill as a canvas.
"It really helps to keep morale up during these times because
people are at home and it's tough for them," said the
33-year-old, who spent about an hour on each of her creations.
"This group helps cheer them up."
In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, Olesia Marchenko recreated
Henri Matisse's "Dance," which features five crimson nude
dancers holding hands in a circle against a green landscape and
a dark blue sky, with sausages, red cabbage and spinach leaves.
"I experienced a burst of emotion of the kind we have not been
feeling because all countries are in quarantine to some degree,"
the 50-year-old psychologist and photography aficionado said
about the initiative.
"Any activity is great right now, whatever it may be."
(Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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