In my opinion neither the only use of miniatures nor the creation of matte paintings alone made the difference, but the combination of the two.
I didn't want to use any computer re-creations of the paintings.
They include a few portraits and re-creations of antique paintings discovered at Herculaneum.
The Goudstikkers threw lavish parties featuring tableaux vivants: theatrical re-creations of famous paintings with costumed actors.
The visual section, meanwhile, includes Ray Beldner's re-creations of famous paintings made using United States currency and Wally Wood's notorious drawing of a Disney character orgy.
Most evocatively, the video gives us staged re-creations of Caravaggio paintings, beautifully capturing his luminous canvases so that it sometimes takes a moment to realize that the tableaus consist of performers, not paint.
Yasumasa Morimura, for example, who has become world-famous for photo-collage re-creations of classic paintings by Western modernists in which he himself appears, has stated that Okamoto "is very attractive as a performer".
In many cases, the artist's studies for a painting hang next to a final product, and in one striking wall, Ms. Schjerfbeck's re-creations of El Greco paintings, which she saw only through black-and-white photos, are set next to the original works.
Her subject is a skewed Americana at once nostalgic and biting, one that includes quirky re-creations of theorem paintings, Pennsylvania German sgraffito stoneware, mold-blown jelly glasses, walking sticks, paper flowers and paperback books, as well as such oddities as George Washington's Masonic apron.
