Homage to Famous Art
Each of these recreations of well-known artworks was made with scraps from the art room that otherwise would be considered trash. Can you tell what materials were used?
These are just a small selection of the illustrations in Marsene's "Story of Art, Simplified" book series, which will be published and available in 2026!
Katsushika Hokusai's, Great Wave off Kanagawa
Claude Monet's, Bridge over Pond of Water Lilies
The Great Sphinx of Giza
Utagawa Hiroshige's, The Plum Garden of Kameido
Louise Bourgeois', Maman
Henry O. Tanner's, The Banjo Lesson
Albrecht Durer's, Young Hare
Book of Kells', Chi Rho Page
Mary Cassatt's, Child's Bath
Angelica Kauffman's, Self-Portrait The Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting
Margaret Bourke-White's, At the Time of the Louisville Flood
Lee Krasner's, Gaea
Alice Neel's, Hartley
Georgia O'Keeffe's, Red Poppy
Kathe Kollwitz's, Bread!
Ai WeiWei's, Sunflower Seeds (Kui Hua Zi)
Edward Hopper's, Nighthawks
Frida Kahlo's Wounded Deer
Robert Indiana's, Love
Wassily Kandinsky's, Composition #8
Rembrandt's, The Night Watch
Botticelli's, Birth of Venus
Raphael's, School of Athens
Rosa Bonheur's, The Horse Fair
