Imitation
Some fanart intentionally references the style or content of a well known work of art.
See Harry Potter examples: HP Fringeart and their gallery of 2006 Imitation challenge.
Examples
Movie Posters
art by The Southern Cross for the back cover of the Star Trek: TOS zine First Time #14, see that page for more
Simon and Garfunkel
art by Lisa Hamner, the inspiration is the album "Bookends" by Simon and Garfunkel, from the Spock/McCoy zine Spiced Peaches #19, 2009
art by Ellen Smock, riffs on "Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel, from the Spock/McCoy zine Spiced Peaches #19, 2009
Norman Rockwell
cover by Karen River of Rerun #3, Norman Rockwell's "Freedom from Want" with a variety of television characters
Leonardo da Vinci
"Mona Snape" by Perselus, from a 2006 HP Fringeart Challenge
inside art from Purple & Orange? #20, a Battlestar Galactica zine, artist is Karen River, art referenced is the "Mona Lisa"
con program book cover for IDICon, artist unknown -- the inspiration is The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Maxfield Parrish
front cover of Nome #7, the artist is The Southern Cross, Kirk as viewed through a Maxfield Parrish lens: See his 1926 painting "Stars"
Rodin
cover art from First Time #40. Spock and Kirk are drawn posing as sculptures by Auguste Rodin.
Spock as Rodin's "The Thinker" from Tal-Shaya #3, the artist is Cheree Cargill
cover of Classified Affairs #8 by Suzan Lovett, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin pose like the figures of Rodin's The Kiss.
Venus on the Half Shell
"Mona Snape" by Leela Starsky, from a 2006 HP Fringeart Challenge
inside B & B Lite, artist is Nancy Stasulis, "Vincent on the Half Shell"
Uhura as "Venus on the Half Shell," art by Merrie K from Spectrum #28
Spock as "Venus on the Half Shell," artist unclear, from Grope Flashback
The Kiss
cover of Interphase #4 by Gayle F. Two Vulcan characters pose like the figures in Klimt's The Kiss.
cover of The Perfect Couple, artist is Suzan Lovett, fandom is Starsky & Hutch, 2010
from Spiced Peaches #21, Spock and McCoy, "The Kiss" by Tarantel, transforms The Kiss, by Klimt
by Red_Magicmarker, from a 2006 HP Fringeart Challenge, Ginny and Harry from Harry Potter
The Pieta
Spock and Kirk: "The Pieta" by Wendy Pearson in Starbase M.T.L. #6
Kirk and Spock: "Pieta" by Shelly Butler on the back cover of First Time #46 -- see that page for more
Venus de Milo
"Spock de Milo" from Grope #1, artist unclear
Olympia
"Amok", a reworking of Manet's "Olympia" by Princess of Swords
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
Cover of a Blake's 7 gen zine, based on the album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
front cover of The Clipper Trade Ship #12, another example of a riff on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, artist is John P. Rielander
The Great Wave at Kanagawa
the cover of Alnitah #7 by Maggi Draper uses "Great Wave at Kanagawa" as inspiration
American Gothic
cover art by Anja Gruber for a Professionals zine, based on the painting "American Gothic". (1995)
