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.
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
Mozart By Barbara Krafft
Arnolfini Portrait By Jan Van Eyck
Bacchus By Caravaggio
I figured Bacchus would be laughing, not just smiling. Come on, have some more wine!!
Charles I In Three Positions By Anthony Van Dyck
Portrait Of A Man By Jan Van Eyck
The Skater By Gilbert Stuart
Dr. Gachet By Vincent Van Gogh
Self-Portrait By Pablo Picasso
Breton Brother And Sister By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Blue Boy By Thomas Gainsborough
The Ambassadors By Hans Holbein The Younger
Paul Revere By John Singleton Copley
The Green Line By Henri Matisse
Celestina By Pablo Picasso
Arthur, Prince Of Wales
Bartolomé Sureda Y Miserol By Francisco Goya
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.
Is 'hilarious' the only word Bored Panda is authorized to use in its headlines?? Someone needs to send them a thesaurus, stat.
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.
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.
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.
Is 'hilarious' the only word Bored Panda is authorized to use in its headlines?? Someone needs to send them a thesaurus, stat.
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.
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.
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.