About
The Creation of Adam Parodies are photoshops, redrawn images and live action remakes that play off the fresco painting “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
Origin
“The Creation of Adam” was painted as one of the nine frescos on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City between 1511 and 1512. The artwork depicts a bearded man, who represents the Biblical Christian God, floating in the air while reaching out to a nude man, who represents the first human Adam in Abrahamic religions (shown below).
One of the earliest known parodies of the painting was on a promotional poster for the 1982 science fiction film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, featuring the hand of the alien E.T. touching the finger of the film’s protagonist Elliot (shown below).