Bearbricks with Old Master paintings (400%)

Hokusai next to Leonardo

This category puts two traditions side by side that normally hang in separate rooms. From Europe: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Vitruvian Man, Munch’s The Scream, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights from the Museo del Prado, Gauguin and Magritte.

From Japan: Hokusai several times over — including Rainstorm Beneath the Summit — plus Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, Itō Jakuchū and Ogata Kōrin.

That juxtaposition is the real appeal of the line: two visual languages on the same body, treated identically. Modern and contemporary work is under modern artists.