Less Than 95 Medieval Memes to Post on the Church Door

I am obsessed with going to the medieval section of an art museum. The paintings have such a unique visual style that is unparalleled by any other era of art history. First of all, there is so much gold. Yellow is my favorite color, and I love gold jewelry, so this is a major boon. …
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Art History Memes For Museum Fiends

I love an art museum: I always have! My mom likes to tell this story about when I was three and visiting the Art Institute of Chicago. Allegedly, I turned to her and said my life had changed forever after visiting that museum. I don’t remember saying that, but I do remember that going to …
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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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30+ Spicy Classical Art Memes Full of Crass Humor

There’s something hilarious about a highly regarded work of art whose subjects have been totally decontextualized and memed into mere comic book characters. It probably took Jan van Eyck months to complete just one of his naturalistic portraits with all of its painstaking detail. Now, thanks to the internet, Eyck’s famous Arnolfini Portrait can double …
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30+ Funny Art Memes For Cultured Souls

Absolutely anything can be meme’d, including 17th century Byzantine paintings and dramatic Baroque portraits. Your art history teacher might disagree, but we think some of these old gems were meant to be meme’d. We might go so far as to say that becoming a meme was the true calling for some of these paintings and …
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36 Funny Art Memes For Cultured Souls

Absolutely anything can be meme’d, including 17th century Byzantine paintings and dramatic Baroque portraits. Your art history teacher might disagree, but we think some of these old gems were meant to be meme’d. We might go so far as to say that becoming a meme was the true calling for some of these paintings and …
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