Resulting in some remarkably good artwork, the blend of classical art and quips typical of memes somehow perfectly captures the realities of the 21st century, at the same time putting the spotlight on settings painted hundreds of years ago. If you’re intrigued and looking forward to browsing the unique pieces, wait no longer and scroll down to find them on the list below, where you can also upvote your favorites. Happy scrolling! In one of his pieces, a British art critic who has long covered art for the Guardian, Jonathan Jones, expanded on the idea beautifully, saying that, “The story of art is largely a story of homages, remakes, rivalrous borrowings, nuanced imitations.” To prove his point, the art critic provided some examples, such as Rembrandt creating his Self Portrait arguably copying the pose of Titian’s ‘Man with a Quilted Sleeve’ or Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ paying homage to Raphael’s fresco ‘The Fire in the Borgo’. Take Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ for instance, a single released in 1994, that is one of the most recognizable hip hop songs to this day – while it’s no secret that the melody has been sampled, the original song from 1967, ‘As Long As I’ve Got You’ by The Charmels, is far less known. If you’re looking for an arguably even lesser known sample, try guessing where Jason Derulo’s somewhat iconic ‘Whatcha Say’ (released in 2009) came from. (Hint: give Imogen Heap’s ‘Hide and Seek’ (2005) a listen.) There is an abundance of examples of such songs, too; Asaf Avidan’s ‘Reckoning Song (One Day)’, for one, which gained even more popularity after the German DJ Wankelmut gave it an EDM remix. Though Avidan wasn’t too happy about it at first: “At the start, I asked him politely, and then not-so-politely, to take it off YouTube and stop giving it to DJs. And he just completely ignored me. I didn’t really have time to be bothered with it because I was making a record at the time and I guess it’s for the best now,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. One of the most popular singer-songwriters at the time, Billie Eilish, has shared that for her, some of the biggest influences have been The 1975, Tyler, the Creator, James Blake, Lana Del Rey, and Nicki Minaj; and while Billie’s music doesn’t sound exactly like Lana’s or Tyler’s, they might have inspired certain bits and pieces of the young artist’s songs. Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
