Getty Museum Challenge: "Lady with an Ermine"
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Getty Museum Challenge: "Lady with an Ermine"
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Description
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My name is Sadie McNeil, and I am a freshman here at ECU. The Getty Museum Challenge was created by the Getty Museum during the pandemic, while people had to shelter in place. The idea was for people to get creative and imitate famous paintings and works of art, using items they had around the house. For an Art Appreciation project, I chose to imitate Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” painting. I do not believe I had seen this painting before I started researching portraits. I thought it was really interesting how the lady is holding an ermine, a type of weasel, which is not something I have seen in any other portrait. When I came across “Lady with an Ermine,” I immediately thought how it would be funny to use my sister’s kitten, Cosmo, to imitate this artwork. I went to my grandparents’ house to find clothes that would be similar to what the lady is wearing in the portrait. I found a skirt which I used as a dress, and I had a cardigan at home that I put over it. My grandmother had a blue shirt that I draped over one shoulder. I found two necklaces at my grandparents, so I wore one around my neck and I tied the other one around my head. I was not exactly sure how the woman in the portrait had her hair done, so I just left mine the way it was. I used a navy blanket as a backdrop for my photograph. I asked my mom to take photos of me so that she could instruct me on how to pose like the portrait I imitated. My sister stood off to the side and tried to get Cosmo to look her way. I used the app “VSCO” to add a filter to my photograph, so that it would look more similar to the “Lady with an Ermine” painting. I really tried to be creative with this project. It was harder than I thought it would be to imitate the pose and facial expression of the lady in da Vinci’s painting. It was also hard to get Cosmo to cooperate. I have never imitated art in this way before, so I would say I definitely stepped out of my comfort zone. Original artwork: “Lady with an Ermine”, https://www.leonardodavinci.net/lady-with-an-ermine.jspThis was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation.
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Creator
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McNeil, Sadie
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Date
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2021-02-04
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