When your work requires you to write about insects, your point of view gets twisted. You start finding them fascinating, beautiful. You start to think “Hey, maybe they deserve to be in the spotlight once in a while”.

Fortunately, I found another sick mind to work on the project with. The idea was simple – take the ten most iconic portraits in the history of art, and ‘desecrate’ them by replacing the faces with the heads of bees, mantises and all these other good looking fellows.

We though it would be fun and entertaining, but perhaps it wound up more on the ‘creepy & bizarre’ end. You tell me!

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The Son of Man

Insect: Sweat Bee
Painter: René Magritte

Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait

Insect: Antlion
Painter: Frida Kahlo

Arnolfini Portrait

Insect: Praying Mantis
Painter: Jan Van Eyck

Lady With an Ermine

Insect: Dragonfly
Painter: Leonardo Da Vinci

The Girl With The Pearl Earring

Insect: Praying Mantis
Painter: Johannes Vermeer

Mona Lisa

Insect: Wasp
Painter: Leondardo Da Vinci

American Gothic

Insects: Bee & Lubber
Painter: Grant Wood

Van Gogh Self-Portrait

Insect: Fly
Painter: Vincent Van Gogh

Arnolfini Wedding

Insects: Bee & Damsel Fly
Painter: Jan Van Eyck

The Scream

Insect: Grasshopper
Painter: Edvard Munch

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