Masterpieces of Social Distancing

John Seed
2 min readApr 12, 2020

While staying at home during the COVID-19 crisis, I have been entertaining myself by altering digital images of art masterpieces using Photoshop software. The images below are my attempts to insert the theme of social distancing into paintings by Impressionist and Baroque masters. Below each of my altered images is a link that will take you to Wikipedia where you can see digital images of the original works of art. — John Seed

After “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass) by Manet

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After “Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Renoir

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After “Las Meninas” by Velasquez

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After “Charles IV of Spain and his Family” by Goya

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John Seed

John Seed is the author of “Disrupted Realism.” He has written for the HuffingtonPost, Hyperallergic, Arts of Asia & other fine publications. johnseed@gmail.com