50 Classical Art Memes That Show Nothing Has Changed In 100s Of Years, By “Art Memes Central”
Even though these classical art pieces had an original intent to capture daily life experiences of that time period, meme culture has brought them back to today's audiences by giving them new meaning.
There is no better way to introduce our younger generations to classical art than making memes out of them. Creating captions for classical paintings that correlate to modern-day topics and current social issues is what the "Art Memes Central" Instagram page does the best.
Through these hilarious and on-point captions fitted to the paintings, this account has already gained 439K followers, and their popularity is on the rise.
So, without further ado, we invite you to explore these painfully accurate memes and tell us which was your favorite in the comments below.
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or me judging and overthinking the stuff that i said and worrying that people were downvoting or replying bad stuff and worrying if i said something that someone could somehow find offensive.
For me it's finding spelling and grandma errors right after pressing post.
Load More Replies...I don't do it. Occasionally I'll re-read my own post, although it's usually to make sure Spell Correct didn't correct something it shouldn't have.
Load More Replies...Yh, I moved quite quickly away from this. Just leaving my comment and running. 😶🤣
Why worship something you can see when you can worship some invisible voice in the sky that tells people to sacrifice their children to them? (Okay at least once lol)
Little did the priest know that he was addressing the tribe's debate team captain.
In some pidgin languages the sun is called lamp-bilong-Jesus.
Load More Replies...The Sun is something that makes sense to worship. It provides the light that gives us food and life
The only truth I ever found in religion is that god spelled backwards is dog.
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP..... There. I finished it for you because it deserved a standing ovation!!!!!
Load More Replies...I literally came to this post as a distraction as I'm overthinking a conversation I just had
I scrolled down after the first line and I knew what was coming. I WILL NOT get this song stuck in my head!
One time around 1990 I was napping and the phone woke me up. Caller said "Frobig! Why aren't you at work!" It was my boss...but my boss who had been fired 6 months before, and it was 7 pm and I worked mornings. If you're out there Jerry, I hope you're doing ok
I had to stop working about 16 years ago. I still occasionally wake up and wonder if I'm on the schedule for the day.
I wish this had been true when I was still young. Back then we were just fat.
Sir Isaac, not Sir Newton. Not sure why people get this wrong when there are lots of famous actors with knighthoods.
The only reason I like English: we don't gender f*****g inanimate objects. (I'm learning German and I want to throw my phone out of the window because a church and library are female, but somehow we still ended up with sexism)
In French boots are feminine and bras are masculine, make of that what you will
Load More Replies...English evens the score with bough, bought, cough, though, thought, through and the ever popular Featherstonehaugh family
The gender of a washing machine is……………..*googles* DEAR LORD. It doesn’t have one! It’s non binary!!
I'm learning 2 languages at the same time, and some things are different genders in different languages, it's very confusing.
We have that even in Latin languages. The word for tree in Spanish El árbol (masculine) and in Portuguese A árvore (feminine). Grammatical gender doesn't make sense, it's just a thing you know or don't know.
Load More Replies...Depends. It has two names. Lave-linge is masculine but machine à laver is feminine ;-))
Load More Replies...English is good because you don't have to change. Every. Verb. Depending. On. The Person (I don't even know the correct term for this). Example: I am in Portuguese: Eu sou, tu és, ele/ela é, nós somos, vós sois, eles são. In English: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we/you are.
But that is almost the same just in another language
Load More Replies...Bless the Danish invaders of Britain who helped take this kind of nonsense out of English millennia ago.
no one make any more up or downvotes. it's perfect.
Load More Replies...A man who knows his limits!! 🤣 One of those ladies should start a courtship on such rarity
ofc, nothing more than friends. close, close, friends.
Load More Replies...She’s seeing a hallucination in the form of a boy, and she’s seeing a therapist for the hallucinations of said boy, but the therapist she is seeing…is that boy. 🗿😎
Their all the same arnt they? Starts off a therapist becomes a boyfriend, then becomes a hallucination because I keep seeing their ghost everywhere after the break up
I am assuming that the designer of the meme didn’t know the significance of Krampus?
But be careful if you need to go to the bathroom at night. There might be a toilet monster ready to pull you in if you don't turn a light on. Sweet dreams!
"On stand-bi" as some other clever person on the internet said
It doesn't just increase the playing field, it increases the possibility of disappointment
The haunted look on their faces . . . those characters have seen some stuff.
Weird way to spell malnourished, but sure Jan...
Load More Replies...Saint Bernard who was a perv (with possible mommy issues) and had an incredibly vivid vision of a statue of the Virgin Mary squirting breast milk into his mouth when he asked the statue of the Virgin Mary to "show yourself to be a mother". Urg. Look up 'Saint Bernard and the Virgin Mary' if you want to find out more (this is not the only depiction). Some of those old Christian 'saints' are... uh... questionable, at best.
Load More Replies...there's no way that's real. also..... BP censors my virgin eyes are ruined! what have you done?!?!
It's very real and there are different versions by different artists.
Load More Replies...Pervy Priest:" I want to commission you to create a painting of Jesus and the Virgin Mary" Hungry Artist: "I could do that". PP: "And I want you to include me in the painting with them." HA: It's a bit unusual but I guess I could do that. I might not sign it.". PP:"Baby Jesus is an aspiring rapper pirate with down's syndrome so he'll need a large gold chain, a parrot and a sort of derpy look on his face". HA:"Say what now?" PP: "And the Virgin Mary is a lactation whore squirting her milk in my face while I clap my hands and hold my rod." HA:" Wow! Will you look at the time!? I'm late for the 3 o'clock appointment. I'll get back to you on the whole 'deity as porn' thing:
Originally “Daddy what did You do in the Great War?” A funnier caption, in a dark, dark way.
Fortunately her phone's clock was in sync with his so she didn't think she was receiving them at 11:12, 4:43, etc
Is this one about the war? About the Dad who didn’t fight, and the children are asking him about what he did? It might be just a similar one. 🙂
Yes, I’ve just checked. It is. “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War? “ - sorry, my adhd brain had to know. 🙂😂
Load More Replies...The artwork is an unpublished piece by comics artist Johnny Craig. It first appeared online on the blog Beat Pop on April 2nd, 2006
Load More Replies...This is how it looks when the morning shift replaces the overnighters at work.
Like people who post a ranting comment on how much they don't care about the topic being discussed.
Load More Replies...You said joking an even number of times, so are you really joking?🤔 /j
Load More Replies...Don't do that, slurs against any race are not acceptable
Load More Replies...That is always true, but it is also the planet that makes you happy
huh. I seem to be able to accomplish the combination without working hard.
Ankh-Morpork on discworld is democratic in that it has the system one man one vote. 'The man was Vetinari, and he had the vote'
Load More Replies...Except under Stalin everybody ( except those serving criminal sentences) could vote. It was a big change from the Lenin era when class enemies were disenfranchised
"It doesn't matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes." - Stalin
Somehow, despite being fully aware of what website I was on, I read BP members as BlackPink members. Probably the word members lmao (for context they're a kpop groups)
Load More Replies...Tell everyone every filthy lie and rumour I can come up with about you - said every "christian" ever!
Christianity is one of the most manipulative religions ever created. Christians will go out of their way to try and justify the psychopath they worship.
I don't think that applies to everyone. To lump everyone together seems unfair to me. Christian or not – I think anyone who lives religion without love, tolerance and compassion (also towards other religions) has missed the point.
Load More Replies...My wife said that when she was a little girl, her church had paper fans with a wood handle and this is one of the pictures that was on them!
I remember those fans also. I’d try to get one with the picture I liked the most. Ah, the days before ax.
Load More Replies...That last line should be 'from the consequences of your actions'. God tells us the consequences, and offers a way out of them, and to navigate life better.
"And we'd all be FINE if it weren't for those meddling kids!"
I want to go to that club. Having a Othman and Sasquatch there, it would be legen (wait for it)dary.
OMG, this happened on The Real Housewives of Dubai! Girl said, "I don't care about this, can we change the conversation or I'm gonna go" LOL
Load More Replies..."The developing of this conversation triggered my total lack of attention and empathy. I must take my meds." And then walk away
yup. friend blabbing loudly abt something and i got annoyed. told her "I DONT CARE" but it turns out... she was talking to someone else. oops. i will now go die in a hole.
The more people do it, the more socially acceptable it becomes. Especially if you have a friend or two a little distance away waiting to high five you for the walk off.
Sure it's acceptable, plus you'll never have to talk to yhat person again.
Going to try this next time that annoying coworker starts talking at me. Though I think I've finally convinced her I'm not approachable.
Suffering through the conversation is the price you pay for betraying your introvert nature.
Although he continued begging her, she leant back in a slatternly way and responded, "In a pig's eye!."
"Just asking, cuz this corset is rearranging my organs and I'm thinking of just going without and paying off painters to do the job for me." "Isn't that, like, what we're doing now? Your painter is right over there and you're wearing yoga pants."
They called on me years ago, a group of 4. I asked them in, made coffee. We all sat down and I started with my ideas on Darwin's Theory and evolution and told them their family came from monkeys........ they left
A Jehhovah witness show me this picture in a bus after yell ate cause I was reading a amoral book: Emma by Jane Austen
Load More Replies...More like the world if Romans didn't create greed and money
Or plumbing and sanitation and medicine and education and roads and architecture and........
Load More Replies...Neither of the animals featured prominently is to be treated as a pet
My phone, every day: "you're running out of storage, some functions may be disabled. Delete saved images that are backed up?" Me: "no thanks"
Jesus is supposed to be breakdancing in the original. Artist is Cosmo Sarson, 1971. I had to look it up.
Load More Replies...You know what I actually like best about the comments on this one? That no one is getting p¡Ssed of about these and calling it blasphemy and wanting to kill someone over it... Very refreshing 😉👍
Because creating an image of Jesus isn't an offense as it would be considered in other religions
Load More Replies...For those wondering, this is a modern work by Cosmo Sarson called "Breakdancing Jesus - Vatican, 2004". Apparently he's done a lot of stuff along this theme.
The painting is by Finnish artist Elin Danielson-Gambogi on year 1890. 😊
Load More Replies...And the two days they call the weekend, have somehow gotten shorter
Revelation: at age 68 you will be the same person inside your mind as your were at 10. Just with a ton of mostly useless memories added.
OMG yes. When masking has dominated so much of your life that you are literally a different person to every group of ppl you have to deal with....who the heck do you introduce??? Miscalculate and you have to go into exile. Lol
Load More Replies...I feel with my entire body and from the depth of my soul, that the woman on the far right is me. On an hourly basis.
When you come out of your manic episode and have to deal with the s**t you bought impulsively
It only takes a minute to do if you leave it until the last minute. built-diff...44e1c.jpeg
I wrote every research paper I was ever assigned the night before it was due.
He often drank their blood as well. This is where the tale of Dracula came from.
No, he didn't, and that's not where the story of Dracula, the literary character, came from. Bram stoker just borrowed his name, which means both son of the Dragon and son of the Devil (his father was Vlad Dracul, surname given to him since he belonged to the order of the Dragon), and gave some loose references to give him a more solid and yet mysterious background, but that's about it. Stories of this man drinking blood by dipping a bread in it came from his enemies in order to discredit him and show him more atrocious than he actually was. Even if he had drunk blood back then that would have been considered a cannibalistic act rather than something having to do with vampires since he was very much alive, vampires never were. Dracula, the literary character, was inspired by both vampire stories from eastern Europe (Vlad Dracula the Impaler was never considered one), Irish folklore, as well as by stories that came before it like Carmilla and Varney the Vampire.
Load More Replies...He never drank blood, and if he did there's no way to prove it.
Load More Replies...Look like Santa before he went white. We shoulda done a background check!
Julie, Ben and Kim became vegans because they loved animals too much to eat them. Then they realized they also loved plants too much to eat them.
"I only want to live 'til my 40th" "Hah, loser. I am only 21 and allready look like 60!"
Wow, BP didn't even censor anything in this photo! I'm proud!
Thats true, we do satanic rituals and give each other oral afterwards
That’s me , in the spotlight… losing my religion
Load More Replies...Hey Jesus, can you get the windows on the east side while you're at it? They're looking a little rough.
That's the UN Headquarters in NYC. I wonder what country's offices He's looking at?
"Hey, fellas, it doesn't matter who controls the Holy Land. It's not holy. In fact, it's sort of a hell hole."
Lol sounds like a drug dealer of laced pixie stix
Load More Replies...Ha i just watched the departed and he used to be so cute, now he's a perv
Load More Replies..."I went home with the waitress, the way I always do How was I to know, she was with the Russians, too?"
That's how you push through it...push it real good...Salt and peppas here to get in effect want you to wash them dishes. Washin all day and all night, working up a sweat!
Nice! I let my dish washer do the work so I'm gonna shoop of to bed
Load More Replies...In the next frame the sink is full of smashed dishes and the view is me jumping on a passing Harley😎
Jumping on? Honey ride your own, and Harleys are too loud, I prefer a Honda CBR
Load More Replies...PhD in toxic masculinity if ever one existed
Load More Replies...There is still lots of ocean to explore. Just become buddies with James Cameron, no biggie, right?
"There are ONLY two options sir, YES or NO."
Load More Replies...I wish an extrovert would adopt me because I need friends outside of the internet. 🥺😭
They're just . . . invisible . . . *forced smile*
Load More Replies...tbh, even though I'M an introvert, I need more friends. Extroverts, take me away to a party so that the food table can become my new home!
Well one of these people is having cake, and one of them is having absinthe.
I'm lucky enough to not have gotten covid yet. And I'm sending virtual hugs to anyone who has/is recovering from covid💕
If dad hadn't caught it, I never would've tested myself and known. But then I would've been at my grandma's memorial, infecting my elderly relatives, so whew.
Load More Replies...I count myself lucky I live in a country (Oz) that took it seriously and where experts were listened to
Can I come? Please. I was there once. It was lovely. And I solemnly swear to learn to drive in the other side of the road and wear my mask and everything
Load More Replies...I managed to hold out until late 2022, but the covid demons eventually wore down my defenses. The castle walls fell, and all that was left was pain, suffering, sorrow, and the inability to focus on anything ever. In other words, covid sucks
I made it to Dec. 2022. And "covid brain fog" is real.
Load More Replies...I've had it 3 times. Sucks having to explain to your job that you need to take 11days off because you feel like you are dying.......again.
I haven't gotten it but I'm still wearing face masks and take antibacterial gel everywhere i go
Covid-free for life and still wearing a mask everywhere in public. Maybe it’s overkill but idc, it makes me more comfortable (and not just because it protects from sickness)
This is funny, but…….. My first thought is usually “oh 5h1t, this is going to HURT”. Can’t ever remember thinking “ah there MUST be some old bearded Middle Eastern bloke that looks surprisingly European in the sky who controls everything (including giving children cancer) after all”
And when the plane lands people start clapping as if the commander did a circus trick..
Come down to the South. EVERYONE starts to get religion when tornado season starts.
it doesn't matter if dinner was a box of donuts, dessert is dessert.
And then cry when I cannot button my pants, yet still do nothing about it.
Being “overweight” is only bad if it’s dangerous to your health. Otherwise, the only reason to lose weight is if you personally want to.
When you know that if you spent today eating, tomorrow, you will spend it...
Botero! I knew it!! Love me some Fernando Botero! (the Colombian artist whose work this is)
So Elvis is putting okra in her bloomers and the other guy is like, 'wow, look at the time'.
https://useum.org/artwork/Okra-Smugglers-egg-tempera-and-oils-Henryk-Fantazos
My childhood bully vandalised my house 3 times. Then, we installed security cameras. He moved to Puerto Rico (he also cause trauma in 1st grade). Now he moved back (2 days ago) and I can't wait to confront him.
Watching all the stuck up bitches that would make fun of you for listening to Fleetwood Mac in highschool, now posting selfies with crystals on Instagram with Stevie Nicks quotes for the captions.
lol in middle school my bully reported me to school police and filed an incident report saying that i had stalked her and tried to insinuate that i wanted sex on instagram (i didn’t have social media in middle school, they used my profile picture from my email and made an account with my name). she also said i followed her into a bathroom stall and followed her home, went to her house at 1am. wild times
Tbt it's good that at least they've learnt. Also kids bullying others is often a result of their own issues and traumas as well
Not as funny and sad as it is when their kids are the victims and they can't figure out why but they demand the school do something about it
Especially irritating when they have *great* reputations and never once took credit or responsibility for what they did. It blows my mind that society just accepts these ppl as good after they did c**p like harass everything with a uterus and legs for 20 straight years....
This might help https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Painting
Load More Replies...That's King Charles III.. At first I was wondering how King Charles I was so old when he became king ..
Long live the king! Isn't that what you're supposed to say? Idk I'm american
Unemployed! that's funny... they all have supposed "Royal duties" and have quite a lot of money and benefits
I want to be a Compsognathus ( the little dudes that eat people in Jurassic park) that way I had friends
Had a workmate that would absolutely anything in his power to avoid seeing that number, covered the computer and digital phone displays with post it notes at 11am and checked with me that it was well past the time before he removed them.
Load More Replies...What is this meme with 11:11? It’s the second time I’ve seen it on this list
This should be a little more up the list to go with the dad legend.
All these "rules" when interacting with an employer (two weeks notice), or potential employer (resume formatted just so) - but they do nothing to let you down easy....
That's the sad part you don't actually know. I interviewed for one job which I likely would of loved to do but after two weeks of no contact, I gave up promised my uncle I would help him at his job. They called the next day and all I could do was say wish you called one day sooner.
Nah baby girl, they just wanna make sure to make the right decision. /s
He does for the Czechs. Who aren't even religious. Go figure
Load More Replies...Jesus was born in July, but k, we can keep pretending otherwise to commit cultural genocide over the pagans. Can't steal holidays without a good excuse...
I had read it was in August, based on astronomical theory.
Load More Replies...his birthday isn't even in december it would be in the spring sometime (Shepards with their sheep)
Jesus's birthday is not on December 25th! It's just when your church decided to celebrate it.
Could be because he wasn't born on Christmas or even in December.
I believe Jesus would have been born in spring or early fall, if I remember correctly. Which I probably don't.
It's February 10th now and I keep saying "I'll start tomorrow"... make it stop.
(if this jackass doesn't take off his pants in the next 30 second's.....)
Me every night! And you know you make the ahh noise too
Load More Replies...It means, the unsophisticated way of saying it vs the sophisticated way of saying it
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