The Baroque and the Renaissance are not quite the same thing… Accidental Renaissance or Accidental Baroque is an ongoing trend we’ve been seeing on social media for the past few weeks. The trend is about posting photographs taken in random moments that have a striking resemblance to the composition, lighting, and facial expressions used in …
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25 Creative Classical Art Memes Painted for Your Laughter
Artists have been making memes since long before the internet; you just have to have the eye to find them!
25 Timelessly Funny Classical Art Memes Painted for Your Laughter
In times like these, what would Michelangelo do? Or Leonardo da Vinci? Or Pablo Picasso? Well, they would paint. No matter how difficult society becomes, there will always be art. This is evident in the plethora of memes that are constantly booming online, especially now! So let’s combine the classics and contemporaries by making art …
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27 Timelessly Funny Classical Art Memes for Art History Majors
Nothing like a centuries-old masterpiece turned meme to perfectly describe your #mood. You’re welcome!
26 Funny Demon Memes for Dark Humored Silly Little Gooses
You can be both dark AND funny—it’s called «balance,» sweetie.
Art History Memes For Masters of Realism
If you think about it, paintings were the original memes. Past painters made realistic depictions of people with all sorts of intentions in mind. Portraits, depictions of rural life, images from literature: whatever they meant to people in the 1800s doesn’t matter that much. Now, they are prime fodder for memes. The expressions made by …
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Trad Dude Gets Roasted By Art History Nerds
Why is art the way that it is? That is one of the first questions you might ask when looking at a new painting, and the answers can come from various places. Of course, the historical context of different art movements informs why paintings are a certain way. However, questioning a painting and finding your …
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Visual Artist Goes Viral for Digitally Sampling an Antique Painting and Transforming it Into Shrek
But really, which one was the actual masterpiece though?
Entertaining Summaries Of Famous Painters To Unite Art Nerds And Novices Alike
Over the thousands of years of perfecting the craft, art has given the world so much. For starters, we wouldn’t have memes as we know them if people hadn’t decided to start painting on cave walls way back when. The problem is, there are so many different genres and artists out there it can sometimes …
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Twitter Thread: Medieval Artists Had No Idea What Animals Looked Like
At this point we’re all aware of the cursed nature of medieval cat art. Their strangely human painted faces are the stuff of bad trips, or for the innocent, nightmares. While we’ve learned to accept their demonic yet depressed vibe, Twitter user @DannyDutch has clued us into some more fascinating (and slightly freaky) medieval animal …
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