Is it just us, or is nail art — from geeky to stylish to just plain weird — everywhere these days? While we’re not usually motivated to go above and beyond our customary, single-color home manicures, we have great respect for those who take the time (or enlist a pro) to do something different. In fact, nail artists the world over — especially the folks at London’s WAH Nails and participants in NAILS magazine‘s Mini-Masterpiece contest — are recreating high-art masterpieces, using fingertips and acrylics alike as a tiny canvas. After the jump, we round up some of our favorite designs, from Picasso’s Desmoiselles d’Avignon to Munch’s The Scream.
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Roy Lichtenstein
Kandinsky
Mondrian
Andrew Wyeth
Picasso
Degas
Keith Haring
Edvard Munch
One hand, five classics:
