Great art brought back to life in unique project
A GLASGOW drag queen has recreated some of the world’s most iconic artworks by dressing up and posing in a bizarre photo series.
Rujazzle, who is also known as Ruaraidh Bowen, spent each day of February mimicking a different masterpiece from throughout the history of art.
The 24-year-old recreated works by the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci, Andy Warhol and Vincent van Gogh by dressing up and posing for the camera.
Rujazzle graduated last year from St Andrews University with a degree in history of Art, and she has finally found a way to combine her two passions.
Some of the more colourful interpretations include a recreation of Salvador Dali’s surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory and Edvard Munch’s Scream.
Rujazzle said that she wanted to make art more accessible to her young audience.
She said: “I’ve wanted to do a little personal project that com- bined the two for a while now and haven’t really seen anyone else do this sort of thing before.
“A lot of my following on Instagram are quite young and I wanted to do something that was an accessible ministory of art for them.
“I picked 28 artists who are important in the story of art and who made i mportant, groundbreaking works that are huge contributions to western culture.
“There was very little digital work and it was mostly done through make-up.
“With a lot of the older classical works of art I would have needed a bit more time and money to recreate the amazing outfits that they had back then, so I’ve done a sort of modern re-imagining.
The impressive reconstructions cost next to nothing for Rujazzle as she used clever make-up and costumes that she already had lying around for the project.
The whole series can be seen on the Rujazzle Instagram page.