【こぼれ話】鶏肉で名画再現！？　ロシア人４０万人、創意工夫で隔離生活に立ち向かう

【モスクワＡＦＰ＝時事】アンリ・マティスの油彩画「ダンス」はエビで再現され、レオナルド・ダビンチの肖像画「白貂を抱く貴婦人」には男性が扮（ふん）する──新型コロナウイルス対策の隔離生活に退屈し、あるいは落ち着かない気持ちを持て余したロシアの人々が、創意工夫を凝らした名画の再現に挑んでいる。（写真はフェイスブックのグループ「イゾイゾリャチア〈芸術的な隔離生活〉」に投稿された、仏画家フランソワ・ブーシェの作品「三美神」を、生の鶏手羽肉とクローブで再現したキラ・クズネツォワさんの作品）
　有名な美術作品を自前で再現してフェイスブック上で公開するロシアのグループ「イゾイゾリャチア（芸術的な隔離生活）」の参加者は、既に４０万人を突破した。
　「プロジェクト参加者は、新型ウイルスよりも指数関数的に急増しています」と、グループを立ち上げたエカテリーナ・ブルドナヤチェリャディノワさんは冗談を飛ばす。
　外出制限による憂鬱（ゆううつ）な気分と闘うこのプロジェクトは、３月に米Ｊ．ポール・ゲッティ美術館が呼び掛けた所蔵名画の再現チャレンジや、インスタグラムで同様の名作模倣に挑戦するアカウントの後に続いたものだ。
　だが、どうやらロシアの人々は、特別な熱意を抱いて名画再現に取り組んでいるようだ。
　「イゾイゾリャチア」には厳格な投稿ルールがある。写真編集ソフトの使用は一切禁止、投稿可能なのは自宅で撮影した写真のみだ。だが、参加者たちはこうした制限を守りつつ想像力を目いっぱい膨らませて、少しばかり自虐的な彩りを添えた、とても面白い作品を次々と生み出している。
　家の中にある物で作られた傑作の一つに、マティスの名画「ダンス」を再現した作品がある。輪になって踊る人々を赤い色彩で描いた同作を、ナタリア・シェフチェンコさんは、ゆでたエビとクルミを青いポリ袋の上に並べて再現してみせた。目を見張るほど印象的なこの作品は、数千人にシェアされた。
　グループの参加者はあらゆる年齢層にわたり、ペットの参加も自由。アルブレヒト・デューラーの巻き毛の自画像は、１匹のスパニエル犬で再現されている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/04/14-11:21）

From laying out shrimp to resemble Henri Matisse's Dance to cross-dressing and posing for Leonardo Da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, Russians have embraced a challenge to re-create famous artworks while under lockdown.
As boredom and restlessness set in under coronavirus quarantine, internet users are posting DIY versions of museum masterpieces in a Facebook group that is approaching 400,000 members.
The proliferation of our project has been even more exponential than that of the virus, jokes Yekaterina Brudnaya-Chelyadinova, who founded the Izoizolyatsia (Artistic Isolation) group to fight lockdown blues.
The group follows similar artwork challenges started in March by Getty Museum and some dedicated Instagram accounts, but Russians seem to have heeded the call with particular gusto.
Brudnaya-Chelyadinova, a 38-year-old employee of Mail.ru group, said she was initially looking for a distraction when she posted a photo of her husband dressed up as Vincent Van Gogh's famous self-portrait.
It was easy to do with an old straw hat found in the closet and a quick red dye for his beard, she told AFP.
In response to her post, she received an elaborate recreation of Marc Chagall's The Lovers. A couple pretended to fly through the sky by perching on a stool, with the city below built out of Legos.
And it was off, she says.
One of the masterpieces created from what's found around the house was Dance by Matisse, which shows pink dancers in a circle.
The version posted by Natalia Shevchenko constructed the dancers out of boiled shrimp and walnuts, laid out on a blue plastic bag. The remarkably effective result has garnered a thousand shares.
The rules are strict: any photo editing software is prohibited, and only pictures taken at home can be posted.
But even with these restrictions, participants have let their imaginations run wild, the output often hilarious with a touch of self-deprecation.
One couple posted three images made in their Saint Petersburg flat, including Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son.
The lockdown situation isn't easy, but we're hoping for the best, that's why we chose this painting, explained 48-year-old Ruben Monakhov, himself a professional artist.
In their version of the Rembrandt, Ruben is the happy father embracing his wife posing as the prodigal son, kneeling with a dirty bare foot sticking out from under her bathrobe.
The group features participants of all age groups and generous use of pets. One spaniel stands in for Albrecht Durer in his curly-haired self-portrait.
One Facebook user from the Moscow region, Polina Vasilyeva, posted a popular version of Ivan Kramskoi's Portrait of The Unknown Woman, interpreted by her 88-year-old grandmother in her living room.
We began participating in this great project for our grandmothers, Vasilyeva wrote.
And today, she made this. Isn't she great?