As the name suggests, it uses old masterpieces as templates for modern humor, creatively pointing out that some struggles may have been real for quite some time now. So if you find traditional galleries too formal, try this one you can access through your screen. The best part is that there’s no admission fee. “I’m an avid viewer of classical art memes,” Dinan says. Dinan agrees that these pictures are more than simple jokes. “One of the things I think is so ingenious about classical art memes is that they take these images that are heavily contextual — like, you knew from the context that this is Adam and Eve, or this is Virgin Mary and Jesus — they take all the context away, and that in itself is funny,” Dinan explains. “I suspect people find them funny even when they don’t get the references. People have a general sense that if it looks like classical art of any kind, of any period, and it has this kind of humor on it, then it’s kind of funny.” Dinan believes these memes really do bring older art into a new light. “I’d see this … as … participating in an ongoing democratization of the artistic world.” Dinan says that in the end, there’s nothing you can really do if someone wants to be offended by a meme, like the one of Van Gogh looking like he’s just seen the phattest booty in his entire life. “Someone will always look at an excuse to be offended in everything," Dinan adds.
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