Nobody wants to be guilted into buying something expensive, ugly, and huge. It can be kind of awkward to walk around art fairs without intending to buy anything for this reason: you might see some cool paintings, but some of them are $5K and are so ugly they shouldn’t be hung anywhere. Luckily, most artists …
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The Week’s Best Classical Art Memes for High Brow Chuckler (November 12, 2023)
One of my favorite pieces of art is Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, the 1942 painting of patrons at a diner on an empty city street. It’s beautifully moody and evocative, and you can imagine the subjects’ stories vividly, even though on the surface, so little information is given. I always like to imagine that the …
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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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