Creating Adam

As painted by Michelangelo

So the Creation of Adam is a pretty famous image, it sits on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, blahdy blah de blah. It’s a beautiful image and probably one of the more famous frescoes on that particular ceiling. However, I can’t help but think it strange that on two separate occasions in my life thus far that I have come across two tributes in different countries to this image.

A 'tribute' to The Creation of Adam.

The first I came across was in a hotel in Munich during early 2006 when we were staying at a family run hotel called the Hotel Europäischer Hof. Somebody called J Stürzer believed themselves as suitably talented enough to cover all the flat surfaces in the hotel with their ‘art’. I don’t think I need to elucidate any further as to why I was so disturbed by this particular work being the first and last thing I saw each day.

Babar's Gallery

While exploring the gift shop at the IVAM in Valencia last weekend I discovered the second and perhaps more credible tribute to the great work. Babar was one of my favourite childhood characters and since doing some research I found that they have done an entire book recreating great art works with Babar characters.

Moral of the story - people with paintbrushes and animal fetishes are strange.