Have you ever wondered what would happen if a classical art connoisseur met a meme enthusiast? Well, while we are not 100% sure either, chances are they would create something similar to what the ‘Cart Memes - Classical Art Memes’ Facebook group is dedicated to.
Resulting in some remarkably good artwork, the blend of classical art and quips typical of memes somehow perfectly captures the realities of the 21st century, at the same time putting the spotlight on settings painted hundreds of years ago. If you’re intrigued and looking forward to browsing the unique pieces, wait no longer and scroll down to find them on the list below, where you can also upvote your favorites. Happy scrolling!
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Just think how much pain and bloodshed would have been avoided if all such encounters around the world simply ended with agreeing to disagree?
That, and not massacring the original inhabitants.
Load More Replies...Even then there was some guy claiming he spoke for the sun and the sun wanted everyone to give him food, clothing, shelter etc.
Ironically, Christianity seems to have a lot of common with Atenism, ancient egyptian religion where they worshipped the Sun god.
I would rather substitute cats—-and dogs—-for most humans any day. Where’s the human to cat equivalency chart?
Load More Replies...I can fill a car with MY OWN problems, thank you now sell me a container truck
I don't know even ONE person without problems, and that includes myself!
Have make sure to get the extended warrant then. Someone will contact you for further information. Your current phone number is.... 555-555-5555 coorrect? (hits enter key) Brrinnngggg Brrrrinnggg Hello. blah blah blah your current extended warranty expires in 22 mins. Please stay on the line to confirm payment details.
They've done studies and it has to do with a concentration reset when changing environments or surroundings. When you walk through a doorway, "system reboot" why am I here?
Load More Replies...Yeah, every time the microwave beeps "done" the fridge door is first.
Load More Replies...Every day, multiple times a day, multiple rooms, not just the kitchen. Honestly, for this reason, and others, I think I need some sort of evaluation.
This sounds daft but if you mime the reason you are going into a room you're less likely to forget the reason. Going to fetch scissors? Mime using scissors as you go. Going for a pen? Mime writing. Or, just repeat the word(s) under your breath: 'duster and polish, duster and polish.....' Works for me (nearly) every time.
Load More Replies...Me:*finally getting a chance to talk after I've been waiting forever* "Now what was I gonna say?"
Won’t remember until you go back to your original position. And then, if anything distracts you, you won’t remember again. I’ve done this up to five or six times before I finally remember what it was I wanted to do or give up because it’s lost in the ether
Some say there is no such thing as original art; maybe even an original thought. With history spanning thousands and thousands of years, so much has been written, painted, and sung about already that it would be difficult to create something that bears no resemblance at all to what has already been presented.
In one of his pieces, a British art critic who has long covered art for the Guardian, Jonathan Jones, expanded on the idea beautifully, saying that, “The story of art is largely a story of homages, remakes, rivalrous borrowings, nuanced imitations.”
Preach my friend! I want to go to Canada with my family but alas they drank the Kool-Aid and I'm the one who is crazy and doesn't know what I am talking about!
Load More Replies...Not quite. The Romans were a republic before they had a few emperors and then teh collapse. We are seeing the transition from American Democracy to an American Empire. Then we just need a few inbred emperors to sink the whole boat.
If the orange turd returns to office, I’m sorry US. It was nice to know you
Wi-Fi doesn't do you any good if there's no internet, no power, no water, your house is burnt to the ground and you are running from shelter to shelter avoiding instant death from the skies. I'll take the fall of the Roman Empire over the collapse of our civilization anyday. There were forests back then, filled with edible creatures and we could swim in the water without boiling.
Right on...as I have frequently remarked...history repeats itself eh ?
Lol, you are welcome to apply it for times when you aren’t getting older.
Load More Replies...The strange thing is that little girls wear whatever they want (if nobody stops them that is) with total disregard to others opinions. I would aspire to be like that again some day.
According to J. Jones, there truly is nothing new under the sun, or at least, not entirely new. “Originality does not burst from an artist's head like an alien entity, but is a subtle game of variations and transformations out of which, once in a while, comes the shudder of true artistic surprise,” he wrote.
To prove his point, the art critic provided some examples, such as Rembrandt creating his Self Portrait arguably copying the pose of Titian’s ‘Man with a Quilted Sleeve’ or Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ paying homage to Raphael's fresco ‘The Fire in the Borgo’.
Someone needs to send this to that prick JD Vance, yes I'm still salty about that comment.
Clearly the childless cat ladies are selling their cats to Muslim Haitian immigrants to be eaten....oh god that sounds like a theory some republican would actually believe in...
Btw, this kind of stabbing was super effective. Arrows could pierce heavy medieval armor.
If you're not happy and/or you don't know it, overthink too. Misery is no excuse to get out of overthinking
Manic phase of bipolar disorder or just plain happiness.? THAT is the question.
It’s not only painters that draw inspiration—or ideas—from works of other artists. It is arguably even more common—and evident—in the music industry, where hits of times past are brought back to life, whether by sampling or creating a new version entirely.
Take Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ for instance, a single released in 1994, that is one of the most recognizable hip hop songs to this day – while it’s no secret that the melody has been sampled, the original song from 1967, ‘As Long As I’ve Got You’ by The Charmels, is far less known.
If you’re looking for an arguably even lesser known sample, try guessing where Jason Derulo’s somewhat iconic ‘Whatcha Say’ (released in 2009) came from. (Hint: give Imogen Heap's 'Hide and Seek' (2005) a listen.)
"You've got the brain of a 12 year old boy and I bet he was glad to get rid of it".
Did it hurt? When you fell...out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down? Because that would hurt
You look like you fell out of the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, then climbed back up and did it all over again.
Load More Replies...Aye. Nobody wakes up for carrot sticks and broccoli in that party tray with ranch.
ooooo mangoes and kiwis and bananas, oh my!
Load More Replies...The voices of cookies haunt me every time I visit a new website.
That's the most probable outcome, yeah...
Load More Replies...I've sorta done this. When the court cases against my ex were happening, I was obviously legally bound from talking about any of it. Not that I wanted to anyway but after I found out about all the various pieces of gossip going on about me. I knew one person it was coming from but one other I wasn't so sure about. So I told him what had happened when I was no longer legally bound but changed one small detail, juicy enough to share but not enough to cause any legal trouble, nor was it an outright lie. That's how I knew for sure who it was spreading aaaall the gossip. Ho hum.
Once I had to fake a sprained ankle for 3 days, I was so good that one client brought me crutches.
While millions of songs are sampled in the process of creating new hits, others live through a renaissance after artists present new—often more upbeat—versions, sometimes taking the song to new heights on record charts.
There is an abundance of examples of such songs, too; Asaf Avidan’s ‘Reckoning Song (One Day)’, for one, which gained even more popularity after the German DJ Wankelmut gave it an EDM remix. Though Avidan wasn’t too happy about it at first:
“At the start, I asked him politely, and then not-so-politely, to take it off YouTube and stop giving it to DJs. And he just completely ignored me. I didn’t really have time to be bothered with it because I was making a record at the time and I guess it’s for the best now,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Happens to me too, even when I’m stone cold sober. Turtlenecks are the devil.
Mitch Hedberg described them as being slowly strangled by a really weak person.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: this is indeed the easiest way to take off chainmail. Source: a friend of mine who's deeply into reenactment and whom I've helped out of their chainmail numerous times.
Or when you crop your hair really short and it acts like velcro on the material as you try and put one on.
I don't have to be drunk for that to happen, there is a reason why I don't own any.
Reasons why I don’t wear them. That and menopause. It’s really hard to get them off when you’re having a hot flash and trying not to melt
" See this knave? He too, asked 'why do I need a squire to help me take off my armor?' and now he findeth out!"
The first time I saw this scene I rofl so f'n hard. Great movie. Couldn't be made today.
Load More Replies...You can't "fold" laundry, that's like "washing" a car or "emptying" the dishwasher!
That’s my husbands job. I really don’t care if my clothing has a few wrinkles. So do i
Even if artists don’t create masterpieces using something that has already been done and dusted—sampling an existing song, for instance—they might seek inspiration from other artists, influences of whom might reflect in their work.
One of the most popular singer-songwriters at the time, Billie Eilish, has shared that for her, some of the biggest influences have been The 1975, Tyler, the Creator, James Blake, Lana Del Rey, and Nicki Minaj; and while Billie’s music doesn’t sound exactly like Lana’s or Tyler’s, they might have inspired certain bits and pieces of the young artist’s songs.
Cause it is https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/13hkdzh/classical_art_portraits/
Load More Replies...Y'all pictured at least one loathed person doing that tumble, didn't ya? Don't leave me hangin' as the only one purging them demons with the reflexive imagery.
This is my favorite painting. Flaming June by Frederic Leighton painted in 1895. The uncropped painting gives you insight into the scene that this version does not.
When you get older, a nap for whatever length just means you ain’t sleeping at all tonight
I'm not doing that Thursday night. Two alarms set, phone out of reach. I'm getting on the train that morning.
Hey.. yo. Unexpected Bergman in the wild!! Noice.
Load More Replies...I recall hearing of a curse "death of kittens to you!" meaning die by drowning (DEATH wouldn't approve). On the other hand I imagine death of houseplants is the opposite.
Yuuup. Since my Mother passed away on 4/5/24, my plants are going to! These plants have never been at her house. I lost my 38-year-old Spider Plant and my Alocasia sanderiana (twelve years old), and now I am losing my Staghorn Fern. Shiiiiiiit.
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Management requires us to update a password that is used for a shared account every month. We simply increment the number at the end. So if password4 doesn't work, try password5 and so on. Sometimes someone even updates the sticky note right next to the computer.
In a movie this would be 'leet hacker Neo tapping away at a keyboard with cool graphics. IRL just look for a sticky note. It might be stuck to the bottom side of the keyboard.
Load More Replies...I consider the odds that someone's going to break into my house, find the notebook where I write all my grocery lists, decide it must be of great value, steal it, then flip through every page to find my passwords and guess which accounts they belong to, to be extraordinarily low. And they'd have to do all that plus log in to my accounts before I discovered the theft and used the "forgot password" feature to change them all. I'm not worried about it.
Load More Replies...I have to change my work password every two months. Been doing this for the last five years. It's exhausting trying to think of new ones.
Do like I did, the day after I changed the password I would have forgotten, I then called IT and had it changed, and so on and so forth. Eventually the IT department decided to just let me keep the same password .
Load More Replies...If you have Ancestry, or similar, and can look up your great-great-great grandmothers cousin fourteen times removed, and write down LaDy@Throgbuttmolgoobly3£licketysplithorseradish12 and put it somewhere safe, then there is a pretty good chance your password won't be hacked anytime soon. You just need to remember where you put it.
We had to update ours every month and you weren't allowed to use the same password for 3 months. Everyone would make up 3-4 and just rotate between them when we had to change them. I would write them down in one of my notebooks so I would know the order they were in.
Am I the only one who uses a secure password manager to create, and regularly recreate, unique passwords of up to 33 random characters including upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols? OK, just me then…
Chances are it's not steamed or boiled but is either crispy or has lashings of bacon and cheese on top.
I love potatoes of ANY kind, because it doesn't matter how they are cooked it's going to be delicious. Plus, that is one of those foods that is normally hard to mess up and at least they're easier to find a way to salvage them.
Baked. Boiled, mashed, fried, frenched, scalloped, chipped and any otherway you can think of. When I was growing up mashed with gravy was my favorite.
You cannot have Fried Chicken, Chicken Fried Steak without mash potatoes and gravy and if you have Ribs you have to have mashed potatoes, because that makes it even better.
Load More Replies...I found this gem on Pinterest and sent it to one of my sons. I-Need-A-J...53a4c0.jpg
Or when they see you in the grocery store on Saturday, in casual clothes and no makeup, and ask you if you’re not feeling good or if you’ve been getting enough sleep lately. F**k you, multiple coworkers who have asked me that. I didn’t even wear a lot of makeup, just a little concealer and a dusting of powder, ffs. Now that I work from home with my husband, who started his own business, I don’t wear any makeup at all, unless we go out for dinner or something. Believe me, it’s liberating not to have to put that c**p on my face in the morning, because I couldn’t wait to wash it off when I got home in the evening.
In the lab I worked in, unless you were in a certain area you ALWAYS had on a face mask with safety glasses or a full face shield and sweating like a b***h in both of them. Everyone, pretty much figured out that if you wore make-up, by the end of your shift you look much better if you just went without it to begin with anyway.
Load More Replies...Is it just me, or does that guy look a little like Roy Scheider? 😆
A few Crayons short of a full box./ The lights are on but nobody's home./ Got run over by the short bus./ The car won't start because the battery is dead./ Wears a helmet and licks windows./ Any statement followed by "Bless His/Hers/Your Heart"/ Fell out of the Stupid Tree and hit every branch on the way down./ The flat tire on a Car/Pick-up Truck./ He's about as sharp as a box of rocks./ Don't know whether to wind his butt or scratch his watch./ Some of those you will hear used a lot in the South and I've heard so many more, especially around older people.
Picked up a few new ones here, can't go wrong with the south
Load More Replies...I believe chipmunks are pretty smart. Maybe you should use a snail as comparison, and yet snails are not wholly without intelligence.
Scrambled to get chores and errands all done Saturday, then showered and got into PJs. Stayed in PJs and did f**k all Sunday. Perfect weekend.
This brought a tear to my eye... Because I never get a day to do f**k all...
Load More Replies...Haven't seen it, and it took me a moment...
Load More Replies...That will be me. My dad made it that far so I live in hope in spite of certain people not realising we are in the 21st century and trying to drag us all back to a 1960s Bond film.
Sir. I have so many questions about your username :skull:
Load More Replies...Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do. Sorry I can't remember whose quote that was.
Amazon really does sell everything! I found out they sell caskets (the reviews are hilarious) when I was looking at urns for cats. I've actually found much cheaper urns and a bigger selection on animal AND human urns. Between what the crematorium and Pet Cemetery that all of the Vets use and their much smaller selection of urns, I'm definitely getting future ones on Amazon. I'm also going to buy an urn for my family to use for me since they're so much cheaper then the funeral home and I want them to be spread anyways, so there is no point in spending a bunch of money.
You should always buy your coffin early enough to enjoy owning it before you need it! Mine makes a great kayak!
“I’m a demon too! You also torture people and make them think they’re not mentally ok? Wow, we have so much in common!” -Me, to my sleep paralysis demon.
The one and only time I had that happen, I woke up and couldn't move, but I noticed that I didn't have pain (I have fibromyalgia and always wake up in pain) and I was so thrilled by that fact that I wasn't hurting that the paralysis didn't even bother me..
Load More Replies...I saw it once with a caption "You are sleep paralyzing other women too, don't you?"
If I had a Therapy Animal then that poor thing would need it's own support animal.
I feel that getting me some doggy treats will take your mind off things.
For me it's the Spaghetti vs Sauce ratio that I've sometimes misjudged. But it's not like it's going to go to waste, so there is always that.
Poor George became yet another victim of "fell asleep and fell off the carriage and got trampled. Several times " Authorities think the men in this small Hamlet might be working too long as several have been lost to this malady of late.
I'll only get down on the ground if there is something I can grab to get back up. Between my knees and back I now understand the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady in the commercials, that s**t isn't funny like when I was a kid.
An error, really. Because of that, it was a missed steak...
The Bible never specifies that the fruit is an apple just as it never specifies that the serpent is a snake.
Stories aren't just stories. The apple is the knowledge of who gets to live and who gets to die. Before the forbidden bite man was living at God's will. Eve took the knowledge of the God's so that all their descendants (not biological but cultural descendants) can take control of their survival through cultivation rather than subsistence practices, mother culture. The snake? We are getting bit right now, with how we have poisoned the world and halted evolution. Our consumption of the world is killing us. Thanks for coming to my TED talk haha.
Load More Replies...'homosexuality is unnatral its not in the bible' ... an entire race of ppl getting canceled over a piece of fruit;
Homosexuality is in the Bible and two cities got cancelled because of it.
Load More Replies...Yeah, because god prefered fruits and veggies over meat and showed it too openly
Load More Replies...The tears of a clown...when there's no-one around. Been there, done that.
A friend of mine did this often, in her late teens, usually accompanied by visit to the A&E after an overdose 🥹
Load More Replies...Me making jokes about being sick, so my Sister (that I'm REALLY close with) will laugh and not worry more about me.
As Scarlett O’Hara Butler. Rhett had this painting done after they got married. (It’s really too bad the storyline of the book and depiction of it in the movie are so condescendingly racist—-I mean, happy slaves? Give me a break. Smiling at slave owners maybe, but I would bet thinking “F**k the whole rotten, stinking bunch of you” in their heads the whole time. Singing in the slave quarters? Oh come the f**k on. Crying, more like—-because a lot of the characters are really interesting.)
Load More Replies...Being 'on the spectrum', I don't pick on on subtlety. You must go the extra mile for me to know I'm being insulted.
Things must have been more difficult in those days. Dressing for day, dressing for dinner, dressing for afternoon tea. At least there were more readily available flunkies to carry that trunk that nobody thought to put wheels on until the 1980's.
Only for the very rich. The rest had far fewer clothes and outfits than we have now
Load More Replies...This was probably a woman of the upper class preparing to go on a “Grand Tour” of Europe which were at least a month long.
There is no one more determined than a woman cleaning and tidying up when friends or family are coming over.
There is no one more determined than a woman deciding she can do anything (and not the quote from Pippi, cause she didn’t actually say that)
Sometimes you just need to see how the TV cabinet will look 2 feet to the left....
Load More Replies...There is no one more determined then a woman wasting off some random hitting on her.
REALLY depends who the person saying this is who says this, if they mean "sleeping like a baby", which I guess was the intent here, or " having a(nother) baby". 😳
Well, this one is sure to produce a lot of groans. Hard to beet one this corny. A head of the pack. Lettuce enjoy it together.
Okay, let's squash this now, since it just doesn't cut the mustard!
Load More Replies...My Grandad used to say people who sell fruit and veg are sissies. I told him meat sellers are butcher!
Winter depression, like having double maths first thing on a Monday morning.
Always worst on Sunday evening in anticipation of another working week
Load More Replies...I can't wait for the life giving rain and survivable outdoor temperatures!
yeah you can be open about looking depressed and blame it on the sun
"Those are my principles! If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx
As a demiromantic asexual this concept is so alien to me. How can you be attracted to someone you don't like? It's weird. (This is actually how I realised I was asexual, because this happened too a character in a book, and I thought it was so ridiculous. Then I was like wait... maybe it's not her it's me.)
I don’t know what half of those words mean, but I get your point. It’s like if you saw a food that’s so absolutely disgusting, but it looks like it was prepared by god itself. For people who are capable of feeling attraction, this person gives your body butterflies, or may turn you on because of how attractive they are, but they might suck as a person when it comes to the personality. I know a bunch of people like that, so I’m always strangely into my bullies lol.
Load More Replies...I know it will sound f****d up but I wish there were more haters on these so called TikTok stars and people like the Kardashian trash. Maybe they would FINALLY go away!
Nah. Hate or love, the point is that anyone paying attention to them just fuels them. Instead of hating them, just ignore them.
Load More Replies...550 people at the P.E.I. shellfish festival probably wish they had eaten a taco instead. Norovirus 🤢
Load More Replies...Not sure we should be taking advice on how to keep your marriage from a woman who had 9 husbands
If the wife can a have anight out with the boys, the husband should have a night out with the girls then. Let's see how this goes then.
Just like another kind of three way where the other two seem more interested in each other
Be specific what kind of boyfriend. That one needs more detailed instructions.
Kind, caring, funny, employed, in decent shape, faithful, intelligent and if you have time...handsome.
Load More Replies...It's in my birth chart....Conjunction between Venus - Lilith, "There can be brooding"....😾 and I def don't want to talk about it
Quite possibly my favorite story! I have shared a few and saved a few from this and still laughing
I love this kind of memes. If it doesn't make me laugh at least I can really enjoy looking at the beautiful art.
But someone did combine art and text for fun and it wasn't you.
Load More Replies...Quite possibly my favorite story! I have shared a few and saved a few from this and still laughing
I love this kind of memes. If it doesn't make me laugh at least I can really enjoy looking at the beautiful art.
But someone did combine art and text for fun and it wasn't you.
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