This lovely bunny painting was done in watercolor by designer / artist Alice Wong. It was an assignment in which the student was to find a “famous” painting and re-configure it with an animal in place of a human. Strange! I’d love to get my hands on the rest of the paintings done in your class, Wong. This reminds me of those cartoons where animals replace humans in every aspect, as if the earth had chosen furry fellows instead of us meaty humans, but their society had chosen the same moves to make.

See: Planet of the Apes.

The original painting, incase you were wondering, was called “Girl with A Pearl Earring” and it was painted by Johannes Vermeer in oils.

This was a watercolor assignment where we had to find a famous painting, in this case a painting by Vermeer, known as “Girl with A Pearl Earring”, and substitute the person into an animal of our choice.

I chose a bunny =^^=!!!

Also included in this post are a few other works by Alice Wong, aka Alwong. She does watercolors and lithography. That’s a self portrait down there!

This post is part of the Unnatural Nature category.

2 Comments

• Posted by Miss B | 11.09.09

  Nick Walker has done a brilliant version called ‘girl with a gold tooth’ and it’s well worth a look if you can find it. (I have a photo of it somewhere, will send it if I can find it.)

• Posted by Chris Burns | 11.09.09

  That would be just lovely, Miss B, thank you

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