From the University of California's 1922 yearbook.

From the University of California's 1922 yearbook.

Paintings interact with your shadow, but that tends to happen behind your back.  From Le Charivari, 1879.

You were correct in your suspicions of modern art.  From Thompson's yearbook of 1963.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.

This is one of the dangers of painting a realistic sun.  From Le Rire, 1903.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to switch between the photograph and the painting of Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake.

Here's aviation pioneer Louise Thaden as painted by Edward Lester.
Click to see the photo that inspired the portrait.

"Some declare that the photographer is trying to imitate the painter, and the result is something between a photograph and a painting — a spurious art, neither photography nor painting. ... This means that everything that tends to make photography 'pictorial' is effected by painters' methods." —Dr. W. Warstat, "Photography and Painting," Photo-Era Magazine, 1916

Our illustration is a Portrait of King Olav V in the studio of painter Agnes Hiorth.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the painting inspired by this photo of Chuck Yeager.

We've always loved this painting by Ruth Chase.  The text reads:

I am walking through my fears
I am innocent and beautiful again
This is what you hate and why I'll never know you.