Nail Art Goes High Art

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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

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Van Gogh

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Roy Lichtenstein

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Kandinsky

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Mondrian

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Andrew Wyeth

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Picasso

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Degas

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Keith Haring

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Edvard Munch

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One hand, five classics:

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