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How many art history majors had to listen to their parents say, "You'll never make a career out of this!" while they were in college? Well, they probably never thought that curating a meme page based on classical art could technically be considered a career! An average art history major in the U.S. earns $62,000 a year. But what's that compared to the currency that is online clout?
On the internet, not even famous works of art are safe from being memed. But that's not a bad thing, and if you previously thought that it's a desecration of a sacred art form, you might change your opinion after you scroll through this selection of classical art memes from the "classical.art.memes" page on Instagram.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Our little old much much-loved dog has just died of a failing heart. I loved calling him my vacuum cleaner. I miss him deeply, even accepting that he is now not in any physical distress. Animals accept so much naturally without any fuss. It is something humans are not geared for. Thank you, Tyler, for being our little rock and more than we can say.
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General Anaesthesia 1 month ago (edited)
It's the psychological sketch artist, you will be judged.
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The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Me on vacation with my family, waiting 2 hours for them to wake up. Most peaceful part of the trip 😁
Niki 1 month ago
I am in this particular scenario right now! It is rather peaceful, isn't it?
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Janissary35680 1 month ago (edited)
Eric Hopper is possibly my favorite 20th century painter. I love his work.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Always happened, always, and I did the dishes from the night before, never dull or bored, sometimes hung over.. erk.. aha
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Attention Simpsons writers: Please make an episode where authoritarians and bullies are all disappeared somewhere, and the world has peace and prosperity, and everybody is pretty chill.
WindySwede 1 month ago
Also that there will be a pawpaw without neurotoxins! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin (on other note...)n
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Always a bright spark in the class, everyone wants to copy.. It is still a learning experience, the easy, lazy and super socially incorrect way!!
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Lene 1 month ago
I would like to mention something that I doubt is purely a Danish thing but: in Denmark we have a lot of coastline. In the old times, when folktales and superstition was a normal everyday thing, it was believed by the people living near the ocean that babies came from under special, big, and/or weird looking stones on the beach. In the late 1800s old people still remembered, when they were kids and their mothers were expecting new kids, they were told that their new baby brother or -sister was waiting under a specific stone down at the beach. (I love that there are alternatives to the stork bringing new children).
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
I can just see mothers of many doing this.. and men without protection!! Where will that poor stork go now? Next door?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Shut up brain, shut up brain, shut up brain, let's think about a random incident that happened five years ago and what I should have said.
Mreoww 1 month ago
And then my brain randomly blasts an annoying song and I have to listen for the next couple of hours.
CatD 1 month ago
I have a song I play on repeat all night with a thunderstorm. It always helps me sleep.
Load More Replies... Lene 1 month ago
This happened to me the other night. So I sat up in bed and wrote a list in my bullet journal. I came up with 30 reasons why it s***s for me to be obese. I could have made the list longer but it was already quite depressing. 😣 I think that next time I will try to come up with 50 reasons why it would be amazing to lose weight. 😏
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
I am bored trying to fathom the meaning of life and why that thug punched me last night>
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Niki 1 month ago
If anyone were interested in wooing me, just offer me a comfy couch to nap on, and I'm yours.
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Janissary35680 1 month ago
To BP editors, words like "medieval", "ancient", "classical" etc all mean "Before I Was Born".😂
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Roxy222uk 1 month ago (edited)
We have a shy dog that doesn’t even want you to see her, and will hide behind our legs if people try and approach her (not a rescue, just naturally that way). I’m amazed how many people announce “I’m usually good with dogs” then continue to advance, maintaining eye contact, and trying to reach her head to stroke it. The exact opposite of ‘good with animals’. If you’re wondering, the person that got it spot on (apart from the many that very sensibly just leave her alone and don’t regard it as their right to get something back from her) was a pet shop assistant that stood with her back to our dog, hands behind her back, and a treat in her hand. Our dog was happy to have that treat, and the woman made no attempt to meet her own emotional requirements from her.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago (edited)
A wonderful painting for man to repeat in his own attitudes to the nature of all creatures. Guilty.. to one cat's reaction, but not our super social wee dog who left us yesterday for his Valhalla.
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Roxy222uk 1 month ago
I’m not convinced that the punishment for killing the king would have been prison. If you had a big enough army then you’d have been queen, and if not you’d have been hung, drawn, and quartered.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Shuddering at the thought of his small hands and strange pursed little mouth near ...ew ew ew
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Anne of Cleves was the one who came off the best. He divorced her early on, but had a friendly attitude towards her and paid for her support (so she didn’t have to go back where she came from, which she did not want to do.)
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
She’s definitely my favourite. The only stipulation for her life long support was that she didn’t remarry. I hope she had a great life.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 1 month ago
The alteration of these images is astonishing and more than a little unsettling.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
The artists of the era painted all portraits much the same with small variations ..I think one wife smiled, maybe two...
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Certainly not Dan 1 month ago
Burne Jones? Some moralistic Victorian, expect she’d expressed an opinion.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Even then, a well-rounded lass was not always considered to be fair, yet she was desired by men in most private circumstances. This painting portrays women who were well covered, never skinny or half-starved, unless they were! Fashion is the enemy
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
If only I had seen this (and taken it to heart) early in life.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
When online gaming with voicechat started becoming the norm, NO ONE ever believed I was female when I played games XD Everyone thought I was a 12-year-old boy because of how my voice sounded. I remember I even joined a guild/army while I was playing Battlefield 2, and I almost got kicked out because the leaders thought I lied about my age (I was 23 at the time) XD Not many females played games - especially shooter games - back then.
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
What did it say then? Nothing, it just waved. Oh, and *tobacco.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago (edited)
A thought, m'dear a thought, but where the gads did you get that stinking tobaccy from?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
"Ha ha! Granny big nose! Granny big nose!" "You deserve to be eaten you cheeky little shīt!"
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Look, it's called perimenopause, and I'd rather not discuss it.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Because I’m past menopause, and hormones do weird things.
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Serena Myers 1 month ago
Agreed, but in America they use "math" as a singular, collective noun. We don't.
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Grm Moore 1 month ago
Bats are NOT birds. The germans have it right - Flying Mouse. Fledermaus.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
"Do you know what they call bats? Bats, chicken of the cave.". Champ Kind.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
They a flying rodents, the cutest kind, they can't help if they smell bad...
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Francois 1 month ago
The Roman empire had a good number of insane emperors. America only one ... twice.
Lyone Fein 1 month ago
Wrong. You need to read some history. . . Andrew Jackson? Teddy Roosevelt? And there were others too.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
American 'empire'? I think not. An illegitimate ungrateful spawn of the British Empire? Perhaps...
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Unpopular opinion here: I’m American, and I think the American Revolution was a bad idea. Have an upvote.
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BookFanatic 1 month ago
This reminds me of the Simpsons bit where Homer's got his mouth wired shut and communicates with a chalkboard. He writes "So Hungry" at a party and Mr. Burns is impressed that he knows the orchestra is from Southern Hungary.
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
They are also bilingual, speaking French, and are in a sandwich.
Laura Lawson 1 month ago
Why the downvote?? Pain in French means bread. It was a joke, nothing more. 🙄
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Laura Lawson 1 month ago
So I can't write the word n****e (nìpple) without being censored, but BP will still show one. Just making sure I have this correct.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
It is very lightly censored by barely existent fabric.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
I am a Libra ..undecided. but have a beautiful distinctive smile..
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meow point1 1 month ago (edited)
Slow metabolism? Lack of exercise? I mean, two hours is an exaggeration, but if it were longer than that...
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Why can’t this happen to politicians who make a big deal out of something minor, while ignoring bigger problems?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
I was on the train to work and the conductor told me he had to charge me extra for telling dad jokes. I told him that's not fare.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Terrible place when he wouldn't let you open your eyes without screaming blue or green m****r.
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Rick Murray 1 month ago
You're waist deep and I'm standing on a rock. You don't need faith you fool, you just need to walk out of the dámn sea already.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
Abreviated conversation: "You took offence to me referring our brothers to John (the) Perfect Gladiator or Peter (the) Dainty Friend?
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Keeping this for when my non-binary polyamous child has a significantly younger partner....
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
My mum looked like Dad when I asked why she wore her moustache like him, and she whispered, "you need a wife"
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago (edited)
My background music, Carmina Burana, Tubular Bells, the music from Psycho.
Nota Robot 1 month ago
I'd rather have a Montage to skip over the unnecessary complicated and/or dreary bits.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
I did college radio in the 80s. I have a constant mental soundtrack going.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Who's taking my photo when I am sat on the bog parking my breakfast?
Uncle Panda 1 month ago
That's the Greek god Comodius caught in deposition of a sudden revelation.
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The Commentator 1 month ago
In the middle of our street... Sorry, I had to.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 1 month ago
I want the little creature at the top left. Also, looking at the faces of those cats, I am wondering if the artist ever actually spent much time with a cat. One looks like a koala and another one looks like a goat. They DO make music and dance, though, so the artist got that part right.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
There’s a gap where the cats aren’t holding hands, so it’s obvious they’ve started a conga line.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
You can clearly see that the cats are enjoying live music, and doing a line dance.
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Uncle Panda 1 month ago
That's Cara on the left and Van on the right. One follows the other wherever they go.
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Auntriarch 1 month ago
Nah I'm used to it now. And I've got a really lush new jumper.
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Niki 1 month ago
It seems a bit rude to banish them right after, so I usually offer them some cake at least. They did come all this way.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
I am thinking of what I could be doing if I were not on a time-out
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Jaimie Dempsey 1 month ago
Native American tracker following trail of whatever based on obscure signs...like a single feather or tiny droppings or small broken twig
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Der Kommissar 1 month ago
Tonto; Buffalo come. Lone Ranger; How do you know? Tonto; ear stick to ground
UKGrandad 1 month ago (edited)
..two words to go on, not 'off of'. EDIT: Oops, upset my downvoting anti-education trolls again 🫢
Fluffy Cat Sleeps 1 month ago
For more context: English and formal grammar don’t always agree. ✅ In everyday English: “It’s all I have to go off of” or “I only have two words to go off of” is completely natural and very common in conversation. Most native speakers would say it that way without hesitation. ⚠️ In formal writing: Traditional grammar sticklers would prefer “to go on” instead — as in, > “I only have two words to go on.” That’s because “off of” is technically redundant (“off” already implies separation) and considered colloquial rather than standard formal usage. -- So it's fine in speech and casual writing, but otherwise not so much.
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Brain-In-A-Vat 1 month ago
I nteresting, when I first looked at the lady, I thought '1920s' but looking at the rest of the picture, it's clearly earlier . . .
Cristi nah 1 month ago
My work email and in my currículum vitae: kittyfunlol99@outmail.con
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Sounds about right, although someone literally got fücked up 9 months prior.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago
You try having 22 children in a row, then find out you're pregnant
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Janissary35680 1 month ago
Especially reading BP. Kind of risky for the tablet though.
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keyboardtek 1 month ago
That is a particularly accurate description of Miller.
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Janissary35680 1 month ago (edited)
This is possibly a vignette from an old map or travelogue. Mapmakers and artists used to populate exotic lands with figures like these.
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Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah, looks like they have FOUR, and trying to decide which one to hang out with is just tearing him apart.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Not the baby shark song. The baby shark song is not a song you want to hear over and over. So be sure not to think of the baby shark song. Okay guys? No baby shark song, do not think about the baby shark song.
attunedsorcerer 1 month ago
I've been stuck with this little song called "Salmon Dance" lately.
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Der Kommissar 1 month ago
Patient; it hurts in these two places. Doctor; Then, don't go to those places.
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