Halloween is around the corner, and every year people wonder how much effort they should put into their costume. There’s a love-hate relationship with the holiday. If you’re feeling low on inspiration artnet News is here to help: just for you we have decided to round up some great (and thankfully, simple) arty costume options for your convenience.
1. Rene Magritte‘s Son of a Man
What you need: bowler hat, red tie, white button down, green apple, blazer
2. Yayoi Kusama
What you need: red bob-cut wig with bangs, polka dot anything
Courtesy: Victoria Miro Gallery, London/ Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/ Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. Copyright: Yayoi Kusama
3. Banksy Flower Thrower
What you need: black scarf to tie around the neck, black baseball cap, t-shirt, jeans, flowers, can of spraypaint
4. Frida Kahlo
What you need: shawl, flowers for the hair, unibrow, full skirt, earrings
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser (1940)
5. Grant Wood‘s American Gothic
What you need: a partner
Daughter: white collared shirt, black dress, apron, short necklace
Father: round spectacles, white uncollared button up, jean dungarees, blazer, pitchfork
Grant Wood, “American Gothic” (1930)
6. Andy Warhol
What you need: white hair wig, black turtle neck, black jeans
Andy Warhol
7. Richard Prince‘s nurse
What you need: nurse hat, white dress, hospital mask
Richard Prince
Nurse of Greenmeadow (2002)
8. Damien Hirst‘s butterfly works
What you need: gold full body suit, fake butterflies (stickers, pins, etc)
Damien Hirst, Midas and the Infinite
Roberta Benteler at Tatler Art Ball.
9. Yves Klein‘s blue woman
What you need: a royal blue outfit (dress, jumpsuit, etc.)
Bonus points: Buy a nude body suit and actually lie in a blue paint pile to replicate Klein’s process.
Yves Klein, Anthropometrie de L’Epoque Bleue (1960)
10. Kazimir Malevich‘s black square
For those who are truly lazy, what you need: an off-white outfit, DIY black square
Challenge: At whichever Halloween bash you attend, stand in the corner of the room to emulate how the original work was hung.
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915)