In mid-December 2017, a public "Take a picture like Rembrandt" appeared on the VKontakte social network, where they publish "cosplays on the heroes of paintings, sculptures and medieval miniatures". The author of the project is the co—founder of the community "Suffering Middle Ages" Yuri Saprykin, the idea came to him after collaborating with the Tretyakov Gallery for the project "1917". During the flash mob, the first 10-15 stylized images appeared on social networks, and then subscribers began to offer content for the community. As a rule, the authors of parodies strive to recreate all the features of the picture as accurately as possible: composition, details, color scheme and mood.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Bathing the Red horse", Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Girls at the piano", Pierre Auguste Renoir.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Lover of absinthe" by Pablo Picasso.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"At someone else's window", Konstantin Vasiliev.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"American Gothic," Grant Wood.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Self-portrait dedicated to Dr. Eloesser," Frida Kahlo.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Peasant girl", Fedot Sychkov.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Heroes", Victor Vasnetsov.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"The Girl with the Pearl Earring", Jan Vermeer.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Lilac", Mikhail Vrubel.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"The Kiss", Gustav Klimt.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Women in the Garden", Gustav Klimt.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Salome with the head of John the Baptist", Bernardino Luini.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
Mary Magdalene, Frederick Sandys.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Anatomy Lesson", Rembrandt.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Self-portrait", Egon Schiele.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Boatmen on the Volga", Ivan Repin.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci.
Frivolous parodies are also published in the community, when people do not try to recreate the picture, but just joke — but often such entries gain even more likes.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"The Kiss", Gustav Klimt.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Apotheosis of war", Victor Vereshchagin.
"Take a picture like Rembrandt": a public with successful parodies of famous paintings
"Portrait of Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold", Boris Grigoriev.