Way more smartphone pictures than usual were snapped on Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as more than a dozen cosplay specialists tricked themselves out to represent works on display at the SFMOMA or the artists who created the works. SFist was on hand to get pictures of these highly art-iculated cosplayers as they delighted the Sunday MOMA crowd, to find out why they did it and how they pulled off their various costume feats.

This was the second guerrilla cosplay takeover at the SFMOMA in recent months, a scheme hatched by Rheanna Bates who is seen above as Lichtenstein’s Wonder Woman. “I came in July with my dad, and we had a really fun time blowing on the Calder mobiles, posing taking bites of the apple statue, and making fun of the Ellsworth Kellys and all that stuff,” she told SFist. “I thought it would be really fun to come in costume and be a little more interactive.”

“I thought it would be fun to get people posing with the art, interacting with the art, impersonating the art, being the art,” she said. “And it’s really fun for museum goers who just aren’t expecting it.”

Some came fully decked out as iconic individual works of art, like the above fellow Bill who was Piet Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Oogie”. “It was an improvisation of electrical tape and some face paint and some white clothing,” he explained. “It’s simple yet elegant and was fun to make.”

Former first lady turned Warhol print Jackie O popped in to pose next to her famed Warhol screen. “I’m actually machine made,” Ms. O told SFist. “If you’ll notice, some of my lines don’t perfectly match up with the colors. That’s a natural byproduct of the machine printing process, a rather tragic consequence of modern art and consumerism but delightful to the eye.”

Even Dali posed with Dolly. (Get it?) “Dali is a big influence as someone who was devoutly himself, and took great pleasure in being himself,” said Mystic Midway founder Barron Scott Levkoff, in full Salvador Dali attire. “I think embracing the role creative identity has to play in brightening up our daily lives is an act of courage in these outraged times.”

Some of the splashy apparel was an homage to a certain genre. “The brushstrokes in my costume are inspired by Jackson Pollock,” said the above-posing Emily Pierce. “I’m wearing a local designer, Weston Wear, and I just had all of these pieces in my costume closet and put them all together.”

This event was completely unofficial, and no future cosplay takeovers are in the works among these SFMOMA fans. But there may be other interactive art events in the months to come, so keep an eye on the SFMOMA events and exhibitions calendar for other fun, wacky, or Dieben-corny happenings.

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Image: Joe Kukura, SFist