--- title: Getty Museum Challenge Shows Life Imitates Art Quite Well description: Getty Museum challenge shows lifee imitating art im the best way and these are the absolute best examples. canonical: https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-30T14:32:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T18:52:40.000Z og:title: Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum og:description: She is giving you The Scream og:url: https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83042ab57c4bb73/698a0c2b656a3fbd17bd9e0c/Getty-Museum-Challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Madeline Wilson from the National Galler og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum twitter:description: She is giving you The Scream twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83042ab57c4bb73/698a0c2b656a3fbd17bd9e0c/Getty-Museum-Challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum > Sponsored content. 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Madeline Wilson from the National Gallery of Victoria inspects Edvard Munch's famous hand-coloured lithograph version of "The Scream."WILLIAM WEST—AFP via Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 6:52 PM UTCPublished: Mar 30, 2020 2:32 PM UTC Weeks into practicing social distancing due to the novel coronavirus has led to some creative activity at home from a [real-life simulation hungry hungry hippos](https://time.com/5807338/hungry-hippos-game/) to a makeshift nightclub. And now there is a museum-worthy fine art-themed DIY [art](https://time.com/5733975/napping-student-prank/) challenge making the rounds around Twitter. While museums around the globe are closed due to the novel coronavirus the J. Paul Getty Museum got people to take a stab at bringing classic cultural artifacts to life on the internet and the results are pretty impressive. “We challenge you to recreate a [work of art](https://time.com/5777447/dog-portrait-reaction/) with objects (and people) in your home,” the Los Angeles museum. Challenging times have brought out plenty of challenges, and the internet accepted this one in full force over the weekend. There’s almost no discernible difference between the original artwork and the faithful reconstruction of Pontormo’s “Portrait of a Halberdier.” Getty has cherry-picked some of the most bracing. > [](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/1242845952974544896) Skip art history and pore over a tour of great examples of life imitating art by peeping some of the sincerest forms of flattery with the Getty museum challenge below. This one was slightly lower effort but impressive to say the least. > [](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/1242845967549775872) With oven mitts, toy cars, vegetable tikka masala from TastyBite and Clorox Disinfectant Wipes, she is giving you “The Scream.” > [](https://twitter.com/thebeehivetree/status/1242968956790423552) > [](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/1242845962323673088) > [](https://twitter.com/RachelForrest/status/1243652580917555202) A thousand points go to whoever can get their dogs to look like they’re playing cards. > [](https://twitter.com/monicawilde/status/1244633056109113345) > [](https://twitter.com/timberlane%5Fart/status/1243961222040559616) > [](https://twitter.com/AnnQld1/status/1244320649138454528) > [](https://twitter.com/AnnQld1/status/1244316464829480961) > [](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/1243307638995087360) > [](https://twitter.com/timberlane%5Fart/status/1243961222040559616) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/"},"headline":"Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum","datePublished":"2020-03-30T14:32:58.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T18:52:40.000Z","description":"Getty Museum challenge shows lifee imitating art im the best way and these are the absolute best examples.","url":"https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief","clickmonsters","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83042ab57c4bb73/698a0c2b656a3fbd17bd9e0c/Getty-Museum-Challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83042ab57c4bb73/698a0c2b656a3fbd17bd9e0c/Getty-Museum-Challenge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Madeline Wilson from the National Galler","caption":"Getty Museum Challenge","creditText":"WILLIAM WEST—AFP via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5812437/getty-museum-challenge/","name":"Put These Artistic Masterpieces Re-created With Household Items in a Museum"}}]}] ```