The prevalence of meme culture and the ease of access to digital tools means that most of us can create, write, and share memes with thousands of people from practically anywhere in the world. A side effect of this is the constant compulsion to start seeing everything as the template for a meme.
The very excited-looking “Art Memes!” Instagram page shares hilarious posts combining paintings and more modern captions. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and share your thoughts in the comments.
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While we can debate all day about who invented the meme and why, art itself appears to be as old as humans themselves. Some researchers believe that the absolutely oldest drawings (as opposed to sculptures, monuments, and applied art) date back at least 30,000 years. In other words, on top of searching for shelter, food, and avoiding predators, our ancient ancestors still had a compulsion to create.
Interestingly, this doesn’t seem to be a one-off case of a stone-age-Michelangelo, archeologists have found evidence of ancient art all over the world, from what is now South Africa, to the usual suspect, when it comes to human development, Egypt.
Sometimes art is abstract. Other times it speaks to you personally!
I saw a video of a woman actually stealing a tv like that. It was amazing to see. She got out of the store with it too, sideways.
Divorced, beheaded and died Divorced, beheaded, survived I'm Henry the eighth, I had six sorry wives Some might say I ruined their lives
(bah bah bah babahbahbambaum) Catherine of Aragon was one, She failed to give me a son, I had to ask her for a divorce, That broke her poor heart, of course, Young Anne Boleyn, she was two, Had a daughter, the best she could do, I said she flirted with some other man, And off for the chop went dear Anne,
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Divorced, beheaded, died...divorced, beheaded, survived...but just for you tonight, we're divorced, beheaded, LI-I-IVE
🎵 Listen up, let me tell you a story! A story that you think you've heard before 🎵
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I read that back in the day the rich would send people to paint portraits of romantic prospects. Sometimes they would ask for full nudes. Sometimes the subject would ask for the artist to be a bit flattering, or forgiving. Just a little info I didn't know before and thought I'd share.
I'm 'enery the Eighth I am 'enry the Eighth I am, I am I got married to the widow next door.....
It's funny... how people are so happy to echo all the same rhetoric over and over and no one talks about how his behaviour changed drastically after a sever head injury. All the bad came after he got hit in the head with a log going 40 MPH. Do something really interesting a do a search for pictures of his armor showing the damage. I'm just saying, it's really more complicated than he was just an egotistical bastard.
I am very sorry to hear that he got hit on the head with a log, nevertheless I do not see any reason not to echo the same rethoric
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The fact that Henry found Anne of Cleves ugly is so bizarre to me. Like obviously, people of importance will get nicer portraits made but if she looked ANYTHING like her portrait she was WAY prettier than him. If he didn't want her, give me a time machine, I'll marry her
He undoubtably have been quite smelly, with his ulcers and all (+ his ego)
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In a pre-writing world, who is to say that these paintings didn’t serve as a type of meme? Yes, many memes these days do feature text or captions, but they don’t necessarily have to. Researchers do believe that ancient art mostly had some ritual or aesthetic importance and may have, perhaps, been created by shamans.
Given the tools and materials available, most ancient art was not drawn on a flat surface but carved out of whatever was available. This is likely less a preference and more the fact that this was just what was actually possible. Now that creative “tools” from literal paintbrushes to meme generators are freely available, it’s easy enough to see just how much art we, as a species, are capable of creating.
My goodness, this is funny. Absolutely death defying to say out loud, but still kind of funny.
when you are sleeping in class and get that sudden feeling that you are falling
Even that doesn't always work. There's always that idiot who grabs his crotch and lets you know he can turn you.
Lol! Im a recovering addicit (5 years on Tuesday.) But I can relate I never wanted the alcohol!
I hate that turn of phrase. Whenever one of my coworkers says "It is what it is", I just want to scream, "because you're too lazy to do something about it!".
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The one thing that could spoil the fun is the BP poll asking you ‘what element of art memes you you like most?’ 😖
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The one thing that could spoil the fun is the BP poll asking you ‘what element of art memes you you like most?’ 😖
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