Ever since the FaceApp was launched in January of 2017, people can't get enough of it. This app uses AI to generate realistic transformations of people's selfies by adding makeup, glasses, smiles, and so much more. Recently, it went viral for its new features that make people look younger, older and it also changes gender.
This time, we prepared a treat for all the classical art fans out there. In case it also bothers you that very few of the greatest paintings have smiling faces, we fixed it using FaceApp. Here's a list of some of the most famous classical paintings with a smile on each of the serious character's faces!
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Queen Elizabeth I
Napoleon Crossing The Alps By Jacques-Louis David
Laughing Cavalier By Frans Hals
Henry VIII By Hans Holbein The Younger
Girl With A Pearl Earring By Johannes Vermeer
American Gothic By Grant Wood
Lady In Blue By Thomas Gainsborough
Marie Antoinette By Joseph Ducreux
In the second picture, she's thinking about the cake she's going to eat later...
Thomas Jefferson By Rembrandt Peale
Ludwig Van Beethoven By Joseph Karl Stieler
So, I'm happy being tortured! This one is terrible. I'm not even particularly religious. Hate this one. Downvote me all you want.
Before: annoyed at being misunderstood / After: annoyed level - ridiculing sarcasm.
Makes Jesus look drugged, particularly in light of the thorn crown... (I guess many will find this offensive.)
Your comment is not offensive. But the modified painting might feel offensive to many for the exact reason you specified.
Load More Replies...Brings to mind all the people who always tell a depressed person to snap out of it, buck up and so on. If that was the expression resulting from the torture...most would not have ended up worshipping the same way
This one is not pleasant to see. An Anglo-Saxon version of Jesus... and smiling with the thorns in his head? Lame effort, sorry.
This is incredibly offensive, & I consider myself a 'former' Catholic with a Bored Panda sense of humor.
I shouldn't be smiling 'coz it's a serious and holy thing to have fun with but it's not appropriate when you make him smile like that. There are some pictures of Jesus that can be edited or more appropriate for him to smile just not this one please.
lol looks like a guy in pain thats just hit the morphine high on right haha
Or one of his disciples are making him feel better below.
Load More Replies...I am very religious and I find this picture EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE ;i encourage you to delete it;who are you to take the face of GOD from HIS passion and put a smile on his face;if you had done it after HIS resurrection,i could understand it;but not as it is delete it ,NOW !
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. HOW DARE YOU MAKE A MOCKERY OF JESUS. THIS IS A SACRED PICTURE. The others no big deal But this should be removed 🤬
Jesus be like.. I DONT WANNA LIVE FOREVER...CAUSE I DONT WANNA LIVING IN VAIN
It's great people get triggered about this picture. If Jesus existed (which there is little proof that he did) there is no way that he was white. So to be upset that this picture shows him smiling is farcical.
The 'after' might be the only white-Jesus picture I would actually put on my altar. Awesome...
Bahahaha, how HIGH is jebus with that smile. The dudes MDMA hit harder than the roman nailing him up lol.
This is so wrong and offensive. Our Lord Jesus was in agony at this point as he was suffering for our sins. This isn't just wrong, it's sacrilegious.
Lady With An Ermine By Leonardo Da Vinci
Man With A Glove By Titian
Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer I By Gustav Klimt
The Desperate Man By Gustave Courbet
Alexander Von Humboldt By Friedrich Georg Weitsch
Bearded Man With A Beret By Jan Lievens
The Lady Of Shalott By John William Waterhouse
Portrait Of Fritza Riedler By Gustav Klimt
Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace And Hummingbird By Frida Kahlo
Anne Boleyn
Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci
Supper At Emmaus By Caravaggio
Judith At The Banquet Of Holofernes By Rembrandt
Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe By W.s. Hartshorn
Berthe Morisot By Edouard Manet
Portrait Of Innocent X By Diego Velázquez
The Artist In His Museum By Charles Willson Peale
Chandos Portrait By John Taylor
Van Gogh Self-Portrait By Vincent Van Gogh
Note: this post originally had 46 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
You're assuming that all of these people have perfect teeth...and almost all of them probably didn't. In fact MOST of them had missing, rotting, or crooked teeth that would make someone in this time period cringe.
By today's standards, people are expected to have perfect teeth. We are supposed to feel ashamed if we don't have great teeth.
Load More Replies...Is 'hilarious' the only word Bored Panda is authorized to use in its headlines?? Someone needs to send them a thesaurus, stat.
Sometimes hilarious is a great exageration, with some of their articles.
Load More Replies...It's very interesting, fun and well done. It made me think about all our pics smiling today and what a lot of other expression we're missing. Maybe in the future someone will give faces to our smiles, like coloring w/b pics. And, what can be think about us and our culture/society? Etrusquian smiles were nice and fun, but they may turn creepy in this century.
In almost all of the portraits, I felt as though the fake smiles greatly diminished the character of the individuals in the portraits.
It was fascinating to see how much more contemporary the portraits looked with a big smile on them.
according to the intro, it was done by simply using FaceApp so ...
Load More Replies...Alas I do not think any of these were improved by a smile. I have to believe that the artists were very deliberate when they created their works. Still, it was an interesting concept and the the artistic alterations were extremely well done. An interesting and fun post.
Completely agree. Although, some of them were already smiling, and some others look kinda like parodies of the original. I mean, for example, the Frida Kahlo one, when you pay attention to details.
Load More Replies...This ain’t nothin’. Did you ever see the *second* photo Yousuf Karsh took of Winston Churchill? It makes sense that the Frans Hals portrait takes a smile best, or about the best. Not that it *improves* the painting, but Hals pictured people smiling a lot, at a time when almost no one else did. For what he did, I've always liked him. The others who are also sort of smiling ("the smile of reason", you know) come out better, though Humboldt comes out kind of "faky" and TJ looks like a 20th- or 21st-Century soul has taken control of his body. Most of these look like people being *forced* to smile--some just look like obvious 'shop jobs.
these are all so very well done. Fantastic. Thank you for sharing - great work.
Some good. Some bad. Some awful. Most of the time, they made too much smile where just a bit would be better.
Dental care wasn't as popular in the past. I doubt all the models/muses/subjects of this works of art had perfect teeth, if any.
You're assuming that all of these people have perfect teeth...and almost all of them probably didn't. In fact MOST of them had missing, rotting, or crooked teeth that would make someone in this time period cringe.
By today's standards, people are expected to have perfect teeth. We are supposed to feel ashamed if we don't have great teeth.
Load More Replies...Is 'hilarious' the only word Bored Panda is authorized to use in its headlines?? Someone needs to send them a thesaurus, stat.
Sometimes hilarious is a great exageration, with some of their articles.
Load More Replies...It's very interesting, fun and well done. It made me think about all our pics smiling today and what a lot of other expression we're missing. Maybe in the future someone will give faces to our smiles, like coloring w/b pics. And, what can be think about us and our culture/society? Etrusquian smiles were nice and fun, but they may turn creepy in this century.
In almost all of the portraits, I felt as though the fake smiles greatly diminished the character of the individuals in the portraits.
It was fascinating to see how much more contemporary the portraits looked with a big smile on them.
according to the intro, it was done by simply using FaceApp so ...
Load More Replies...Alas I do not think any of these were improved by a smile. I have to believe that the artists were very deliberate when they created their works. Still, it was an interesting concept and the the artistic alterations were extremely well done. An interesting and fun post.
Completely agree. Although, some of them were already smiling, and some others look kinda like parodies of the original. I mean, for example, the Frida Kahlo one, when you pay attention to details.
Load More Replies...This ain’t nothin’. Did you ever see the *second* photo Yousuf Karsh took of Winston Churchill? It makes sense that the Frans Hals portrait takes a smile best, or about the best. Not that it *improves* the painting, but Hals pictured people smiling a lot, at a time when almost no one else did. For what he did, I've always liked him. The others who are also sort of smiling ("the smile of reason", you know) come out better, though Humboldt comes out kind of "faky" and TJ looks like a 20th- or 21st-Century soul has taken control of his body. Most of these look like people being *forced* to smile--some just look like obvious 'shop jobs.
these are all so very well done. Fantastic. Thank you for sharing - great work.
Some good. Some bad. Some awful. Most of the time, they made too much smile where just a bit would be better.
Dental care wasn't as popular in the past. I doubt all the models/muses/subjects of this works of art had perfect teeth, if any.