{"id":121031,"date":"2025-11-07T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/121031\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:39:24","slug":"seeing-double-check-out-re-imagined-versions-of-classics-from-within-the-louvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/121031\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing double?: Check out re-imagined versions of classics from within the Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Updated on: Nov 07, 2025 07:57 pm IST <\/p>\n<p>    The Copyist exhibition invites 100 artists from around the world to redraw works by master artists. Check out dramatic, political and digital-era re-imaginings.     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aabd2a7a-bbcc-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525386286.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(Wikimedia)\" title=\"(Wikimedia)\"\/>  (Wikimedia)   <\/p>\n<p>The French-Algerian artist Djamel Tatah, reconfigures it as Sans Titre (Untitled; below), representing the richly layered subject of the original in flattened form and minimalist shades of brown and grey, against a two-tone background reminiscent of our era of digital art.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2de79ff8-bbcc-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525405929.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(Franck Couvreur)\" title=\"(Franck Couvreur)\"\/>  (Franck Couvreur)    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/223f9804-bbd1-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525408105.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(Wikimedia)\" title=\"(Wikimedia)\"\/>  (Wikimedia)  <\/p>\n<p>In her re-imagining (below), French-Swiss artist Agnes Thurnauer juxtaposes Delacroix\u2019s imagery with an excerpt from Monique Wittig\u2019s feminist novel Les Gu\u00e9rill\u00e8res (The Women Warriors; 1969), which envisions a world in which women have overthrown patriarchy. Liberty rises from amid the sampling of text.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e7203a5e-bbd4-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525436329.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(ADAGP, Paris)\" title=\"(ADAGP, Paris)\"\/>  (ADAGP, Paris)    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/044192b8-bbda-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525438826.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(Mus\u00e9e du Louvre)\" title=\"(Mus\u00e9e du Louvre)\"\/>  (Mus\u00e9e du Louvre)  <\/p>\n<p>(Below) Finnish artist Henni Alftan offers a modern perspective. \u201cI didn\u2019t copy it exactly \u2013 I tried instead to extract the essential in order to evoke a sequence of spaces by representing only a narrow part of it,\u201d Alftan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/377e144e-bbda-11f0-9414-5aed1fb76a85_1762525441444.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"(Aur\u00e9lien Mole)\" title=\"(Aur\u00e9lien Mole)\"\/>  (Aur\u00e9lien Mole)         <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>          <\/p>\n<p> All Access. <br \/>One Subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-paywall-description\"> Get 360\u00b0 coverage\u2014from daily headlines<br \/>to 100 year archives. <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"28px\" height=\"28px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/paywall-e-paper.png\"\/>  E-Paper    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"28px\" height=\"28px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/full-archive.png\"\/>  Full Archives    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"34px\" height=\"26px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/paywall-app-web.png\"\/>  Full Access to<br \/>HT App &amp; Website    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"33px\" height=\"33px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/paywaal-games.png\"\/>  Games   Subscribe Now   Already subscribed? <a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.hindustantimes.com?mode=subscribe$ref=ht&amp;funnel_entry=paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Login <\/a>            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated on: Nov 07, 2025 07:57 pm IST The Copyist exhibition invites 100 artists from around the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,76889,438,146,76891,32945,85,46,1818,76888,76890],"class_list":{"0":"post-121031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-copyists-exhibition","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-eugene-delacroix","16":"tag-htwknd","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-louvre","20":"tag-pompidou-center-metz","21":"tag-reinterpretation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}