Famous painting costume

My name is Lucie Kruta and five years ago I got the idea of capturing transformations of my growing children a little more creatively. I started to take pictures of my kids in the style of famous paintings. The first photograph was actually a coincidence.

Win the costume contest at this year's Halloween party by dressing up as one of these famous paintings.

Jana: Famous Painting Halloween Costume Der Schrei (The Scream) // Edvard Munch My son Josh is wearing the costume. We build the frame together, my husband painted the background. What a...

With an incredible make-up job, James Birkbeck turned himself into a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait painting. photo by James Birkbeck

Here are the 13 best Halloween costume ideas for art and culture lovers around the world!

Anyone who knows me well knows how much I adore Halloween. Frankly, I love any excuse to dress up in costume! Each year at work, my colleagues and I devise an "elaborate" theme for our department. The first year was The Wizard of Oz, but we have also dressed as pirates, pageant queens and the Rockford Peaches from A League of Their Own. This year we quickly agreed to dress as women from famous works of art. This posed a bit of a challenge as many of the most recognizable works of art…

Cecilia: Me (Frida Kahlo), my boyfriend (Salvador Dali), my friend (Picasso), her boyfriend (Van Gogh) We had a halloween party where the theme was 'people/characters who are dead'. We didn't really...

Transform yourself into the famous Mona Lisa painting completed by Leonardo da Vinci.

With Halloween just around the corner, everyone is really excited about the season of trick-or-treating, festive creativity, and mind-blowing costumes. But the best part about Halloween is easily the competition among those who go above and beyond to create next-level costumes.

Grace: Bradley is dressed as Van Gough from one of his famous painted self portraits (we added his bandaged ear to make the reference extra noticeable. Grace is dressed as Starry...