50 Of The Funniest Classical Art Memes To Make Your Daily Coffee Break More Enjoyable (New Pics)
Art has always been a way to express how it felt to exist at a certain time, capturing its essence, struggles, and triumphs. While it’s hard to imagine, artists of the past share a lot more in common with present-day folks, making these masterpieces relevant even after hundreds of years.
Luckily for us, their relatability makes them great material for something the modern human enjoys weirdly too much. That’s right, memes! The Instagram account ‘ClassicReelsMemes’ has an impressive collection of them, making it the perfect place for some laughs and culture. Scroll down to find the best classical art memes that even Da Vinci would approve of.
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well if she's out of misery then it should be considered happily ever after
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Yep. This one is called 'the lighter' and the girl has been warned about not to use it. She got curious while her parents were out and did catch fire, burnt to ashes (except her shoes). Disturbing, yes, but every story or fairy tale is some sort of education. If you do it wrong or you are a bad person, you will be punished one day is the lesson for the children. And then a guy called Walt Disney came along.
My daughter goes to a German school and we were quite surprised that the kids are read the real versions of the fairy tales at a rather young age! Incidentally, a great accompaniment to these fairy tales for kids aged 7+ is The Night I Fell Into A Fairytale by Ben Miller. Can only recommend it!
Even small children can tell that the fairytailes are not the real life. And they just imagine it their own way when you read or tell the tale. The amount of laughing abd screaming when the wolf swallows grandma whole is hillarious! Obviously it's impossible to just gulp up someone without chewing.. aaah *goes searching for the fairytale book*
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»Doch weh! Die Flamme faßt das Kleid, Die Schürze brennt; es leuchtet weit. Es brennt die Hand, es brennt das Haar, Es brennt das ganze Kind sogar.« The »Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders«, the internationally valid diagnostic catalog of psychiatry, claims the following criteria for pathological pyromania: • deliberate and premeditated setting of fire in several instances • great tension and excitement before the act • obsessed interest in fire and everything to do with it • joy or relief during the arson • arsons were not committed for financial reasons, revenge, etc.
This is no classical fairy tale an has nothing to do with Brothers Grimm. It´s a story from the book "Der Struwwelpeter". The intention of those stories was to warn and to frighten children to do the descripted things - like playing with fire. The book is from 1844....
Are the cats yelling in terror or using her as a human sacrifice? Or is she perhaps the demon they were trying to summon?
"... and remember kids, the story of Ethyl & the Tabernacle Cats: Sometimes death comes quickly, and that's a good thing."
Not actually JUST the German version, original fairy tales got dark.
The cats look shocked, but I'm sure they have something to do with it.
The cats even have names, Minz and Maunz and they tried to warn the girl. But as she doesn't listen, all the cats could do in the end was crying.
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The Grimm brothers only travelled the area which is called Germany today, collected local tales and made a book. They did not invent anything. Mlst tales were told by working people to their children to educate them, hence they are quite disturbing. Do the right thing, nothing happens. Do wrong, the consequences will be severe
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The process that people go through to craft these amazing classical art memes is called remixing. During it, they take a piece of art from its original context and create a newer piece of media. Initially, remixing was only used for music or sound manipulation, but now it can be employed to produce a new version of anything.
Even the classical artists themselves are guilty of doing this. Embracing remixing often drives innovation and pushes the boundaries of creative expression. One of the most renowned artists, Pablo Picasso, has famously said, “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” He frequently borrowed from African, Iberian, and other artistic traditions, redoing them and creating his own groundbreaking style.
You save tokens from cereal packets and send off for a baby I do believe.
But in order to create a classical art meme that people will find amusing and relatable, the creator has to be literate in art, its history, and meme culture. Therefore, creating and sharing them acts as a way to learn more about art history and the meaning behind each painting.
English and Great Books professor Christine Cornell says, “I think it’s a fun thing to try out at least. Yeah, and it maybe introduces some people to art they might not have run into otherwise, so that’s always good.”
In fact, for many people, classical art memes are the only gateway to the artistic world, as classical art is often viewed as “highbrow” and “high-class, which makes it unwelcoming and unattainable for some. The paintings also tend to be ambiguous and require research to be dissected, which can scare off those who don’t really have time to do that.
And then you just sit on your bed contemplating life and reviewing all the plausible excuses you haven't used yet
That said, some see taking original masterpieces and adding humorous text to them as devaluing them. Francesca Testa from the online art platform Cartellino in a way defends memes by saying, “After so much research and attempts to understand art history, it's safe to say that what these memes brought is no depreciation.
Medieval and Renaissance art is indeed considered priceless today, but just because they've been used as tools for injecting humor into the tragic everyday lives of angsty millennials or trivial adventures of young individuals doesn't mean they devalue the art pieces used. They simply start a conversation that transcends time.”
A posthumous (XVII century) illustration for Franz Helm's "Feuerwerkbuch" from the XIV century. Helm was a proposer of some unorthodox techniques for siege warfare, some of them involving strapping incendiary devices to animals. It is dubious if he reported those as mere curiosities, possibly riding the popularity of the story of Olga of Kiev using pigeons to burn a castle in revenge, or if someone actually experimented with the concept.
In fact, Cornell argues that these memes are the same as any art being repurposed into a collage or something broken being created into a new artwork. “There’s nothing wrong with repurposing things as well. It’s like sampling in music, there’s no reason artists shouldn’t do that,” she said. “And I think art works that way all the time so it kind of makes sense that they get used this way.”
We also shouldn’t forget that being proficient in history, art, and modern culture in order to create a successful art meme isn’t an easy task, considering that we have decades and centuries' worth of digital and physical media. For this reason, some people are starting to see memes as a form of art. And if we take the definition of art, we can see that memes do fall into its definition.
When the transphobic bigot who stalks me makes a comment.
As a result, internet memes are frequently compared to pop art or street art because of their high accessibility. Artist and writer An Xiao Mina explains, “Memes are the street art of the social web, and like street art, they are varied, expressive, and complex.”
Saw a meme earlier that said “I would die for you” “then perish”
In 2022, the memes were taken offline by Freeze_Magazine, who showcased them in an exhibition in the Barbican. Combining elements of art, art history, and internet culture, the display named ‘Hope You See Me as a Friend’ already reworked memes that initially were used to revise other things.
When you are now Place de la Concorde in Paris and just imagine these things really happens that's so weird
Think I'll reply with this tomorrow when a customer asks me how I'm doing
"Such a cute little boy what is his name?" "Her name is Tiffany"
Ignoring the meme, this painting just reminds me of my childhood and the comfort I felt
Coincidentally, I just saw a documentary on the history of surgery and how limited the surgeries they could actually do before anaesthesia were. Abdominal surgeries couldn't be done because no amount of restraints could keep someone from writhing in pain. They probably would've died from infection anyway
"I'm blind!" *Jesus pokes blind person in the eye. "Now I am blind AND my eye hurts, thanks for nothing!"
After 27 selfies, I realized it might not be the angle or the lighting…
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Love this post! Memes aside, these artworks are actually really pretty.
wtf is John bababuie am I tweaking??!?!?!
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I was just about to defend John because I didn't understand why some of his comments were so downvoted for saying regular things, like the fact that he loves potatoes or whatever, despite some of the other comments that didn't make sense. But did he really just insult Lakota with no reason? In multiple comments? Wtf is wrong with him
That is the weirdest poll I've ever seen. Who wakes up and thinks "I really wonder what the public's idea is about how Davinci feels about art being used for memes"?
I thought the exact same thing when I saw it. I'm having a lot of fun now imagining someone having to explain this to him or any other renaissance artist
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Love this post! Memes aside, these artworks are actually really pretty.
wtf is John bababuie am I tweaking??!?!?!
Load More Replies... I was just about to defend John because I didn't understand why some of his comments were so downvoted for saying regular things, like the fact that he loves potatoes or whatever, despite some of the other comments that didn't make sense. But did he really just insult Lakota with no reason? In multiple comments? Wtf is wrong with him
That is the weirdest poll I've ever seen. Who wakes up and thinks "I really wonder what the public's idea is about how Davinci feels about art being used for memes"?
I thought the exact same thing when I saw it. I'm having a lot of fun now imagining someone having to explain this to him or any other renaissance artist
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