A GLASGOW drag queen has recreated some of the world's most iconic artworks by dressing up and posing in a bizarre photo series.
Rujazzle, also known as Ruairidh Bowen, spent each day of February mimicking a different work from the history of art.
The 24-year-old recreated works by the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci, Andy Warhol and Vincent van Gogh by dressing up and posing for the camera.
Rujazzle graduated last year from St Andrews University with a degree in History of Art and has finally found a way to combine her two passions.
Some of the more colourful interpretations include a recreation of Salvador Dali's surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory and Edvard Munch's Scream.
Rujazzle said that she wanted to make art more accessible to her young audience.
She said: "I've wanted to do a little personal project that combined the two for a while now and haven't really seen anyone else do this sort of thing before,
"A lot of my following on Instagram are quite young and I wanted to do something that was an accessible mini story of art for them.
"I picked 28 artists that are important in the story of art and that made important, groundbreaking works that are huge contributions to western culture.
"There was very little digital work and it was mostly done through make-up.
"With a lot of the older classical works of art I would have needed a bit more time and money to recreate the amazing outfits that they had back then so I've done a sort of modern re-imagining.
"With [Da Vinci's] the Vitruvian Man because that work is all about body proportions I decided to take it down a plastic surgery route.
"I think people find art quite pretentious and that it can be a bit off-limits or confusing but I think drag is a great art form because it's so down-to-earth, playful and tongue-in-cheek.
"One reason I love drag is that it's about not taking life so seriously and poking fun at everything.
"It's educational but it's still fun and playful -- it's the horrible histories of art history let's put it that way."
The impressive reconstructions cost next to nothing for Rujazzle as she used make-up and costumes that she already had lying around for the project.
The whole series can be seen on the Rujazzle Instagram page with the original piece she is spoofing posted alongside each picture.
LIST OF EACH ARTWORK INTERPRETED BY RUJAZZLE:
1. Ognissanti Madonna (1310) - Giotto di Bondone
2. The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) - Jan Van Eyck
3. The Vitruvian Man' (1490) - Leonardo Da Vinci
4. The Pietà (1498-1499) - Michelangelo Buonarroti
5. Boy With A Basket Of Fruit (1593) - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
6. Girl With A Pearl Earring (1665) - Johannes Vermeer
7. The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch (1790s) - Henry Raeburn
8. The Desperate Man (1843) - Gustave Courbet
9. Olympia (1863) - Édouard Manet
10. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande-Jatte (1884-1886) - Georges Seurat
11. Wheatfield with Crows (1890) - Vincent Van Gogh
12. The Scream (1893) - Edvard Munch
13. House for an Art Lover (1901) - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
14. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1903-1907) - Gustav Klimt
15. 'Fountain' (1917) and 'Bicycle Wheel' (1913) - Marcel Duchamp
16. Water Lilies (1916-1919) - Claude Monet
17. White on White (1918) - Kazimir Malevich
18. Composition 8 (1923) - Vasily Kandinsky
19. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (1930) - Piet Mondrian
20. The Persistence of Memory (1931) - Salvador Dali
21. Girl Before A Mirror (1932) - Pablo Picasso
22. Self Portrait (Dedicated to Dr Eloesser) (1940) - Frida Kahlo
23 Convergence (1952) - Jackson Pollock
24. The Snail (1953) - Henri Matisse
25. Light Red Over Black (1957) - Mark Rothko
26. Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) - Francis Bacon
27. Shot Marilyns (1964) and Campbell's Soup (1962) - Andy Warhol
28 . Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death (1989) - Keith Haring
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