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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Hell yeah it is. I love the sun. It's all warm and sunny and it makes things grow. Way better than that God dude. All he seems to do is kill off the entire planet once in awhile and make people oppress women and minorities.
Ignorant white dude... The Sun sustains all life on this planet, including your stoopid @ss.
So, you want to spend your lives worshipping actual stuff when you could believe in delusional stories that change with every new translation? Why that's crazy!
Like when Professor T, who considers J.S. Bach is God, says to a priest, "At least my God is real"
I thought Flat Earth (or somebody?) had proven the sun was fake now also? Yeah, the moon is either holographic or doesn't exist; the stars are holes in the dome and the sun was built and maintained by NASA.
Here, an upvote for you, because someone didn't get that it was a sarcasm. Because it *was* either sarcasm or joke, right...?
Load More Replies...In the mid-90s there was one particular giftware store my husband and I would go into. We set up a challenge of choosing the most tacky item in the store. A Jesus clock like this one was what he chose. It's the only one I remember, so it must have memorable - and tacky.
That would go well with the bas-relief plaque of "The Last Supper" at a gift shop near me. It looked like the Apostles were falling out of their seats!
Load More Replies...My dad had one way worse than this. It was a close-up of Jesus's face, on the cross, grotesquely bloody - AND IT WAS HOLOGRAPHIC! THE BLOODY JESUS'S EYES OPENED AND CLOSED!
There were a lot of these awful things in irish homes back in the day.
Omg I remember these sort of clocks and pictures on people's walls in the 80s
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.
In the early 90s, when parachute pants were common, a guy was caught at my local music store trying to walk out with a guitar in his pants.
Load More Replies...Her feet are totally mispositioned in relation to her upper body - it makes my brain hurt...
Same here , my brain is literally throbbing upon absorbing this concept...wow , take it away please!
Load More Replies...Ohh my God! , no you didn't...WOW... , just WOW! Good eye , my friend.
Load More Replies...This outfit would've been perfect when we were all queueing 6ft apart. Keep this in mind for the next pandemic. Just ditch the hat. It's a bit much.
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,
Load More Replies...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 🎵
Load More Replies...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
Load More Replies...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)
Load More Replies...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.
Where's the third type? Sitting at home alone, listening to Tool and Portisehead, crying while you over analyze failed relationships, and fighting the urge to drunk text.
I've been that type too. Except my main drunk music was "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco and "China" by Tori Amos
Load More Replies...Nah, I'm the "riding my attack snail the eff away from everyone else" rabbit type
Sometimes it's 2 stages of the same drunk... going back-and-forth from hugging to fighting.
And the theme song from the Harlem Globetrotters is going through my head. Oh, Sweet Georgia Brown.
"So I use this finger to examine the Prostate"..."That's right then a quick pat on the bum cheek to tell them they did very well"
Are you , by chance , a doctor or nurse...? Because , Damn...!
Load More Replies...The lost technologies of the classic era: Roman concrete, Greek invisible basketballs. Which do we miss more?
The number 1 rule of the philosophy club is to contemplate everything …
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.
And this is why most revolutionary projects are foisted on child-free people. Can't protest today. Promised little Timmy we'd play laser tag.
😂 I can only imagine how confused people are reading this comment!
Load More Replies...Considering Worcester is pronounced "Wooster"... Plus Yorkshire is the best shire... It's "God's own country" after all.
Yeah, but "It was the Hendos of times" doesn't work as well.
Load More Replies...That most certainly is how he pronounces it!
Load More Replies...My goodness, this is funny. Absolutely death defying to say out loud, but still kind of funny.
more like: What are the starving people supposed to do with your clothes? Eat them?
Oh, the joke dilema. Either you say it and risk getting your teeth punched in, or you shut your mouth and the joke will break the teeth from inside.
This was me on my birthday this year, with my beautiful daughter. I was trying to keep a brave face but she still went upstairs and wrote me an adorably misspelled note: "Is orite, is orite mama if you mayk a mistayk. Just dü yor best. I love you all ways."
Yeah, but a visit to your GP isn't unless you've got a means tested medical card.
Load More Replies...I think you are talking about present times, in which this woman is about to be arrested and charged with the newest capital crime: avoiding mandatory motherhood.
Yep. My day today. My list of things to do is so freaking long. And I haven't even looked at it.
Load More Replies...I don't lollygag in bed all day. I get my butt up, then I gently place it in my recliner until those intrusive chore thoughts eventually disappear.
Meanwhile me needing glasses since 7 and looking at this post while my eyesight slowly worsens…
Load More Replies...My grandma would have a "sip" of sherry each evening. One day she called my uncle and, in a panic, told him there had been a burglar in her house. Alarmed, he asked if anything was stolen. Her reply: "He took a full bottle of sherry and left one that's almost empty". Nothing would convince her of the obvious!
Maybe she is like my 81 year old friend who will not wear glasses because they make her look old!
Have to admit, it's strange seeing so many old people who ditched their glasses because of cataract surgery.
My grandmother used to warn me that if I didn’t behave, he would come get me. 😂
These are all completely disturbing and I would like my daily dose of unsee juice
They all look like people that were turned into dogs by some hilarious witch
I think of that line whenever there’s an article about animals in medieval paintings :D
Load More Replies...Gonna need these scattered around my house with no context, thx
I have used that response. Shuts boastful parents/grandparents right down.
Oh, I'm using this line. For no other reason but to see the parent's reaction.
Some people think box wine is 'just' fine wine. Aging like box wine in the frig. Does that count?
I swear those monks illuminating the old manuscripts were either bored out of their minds or high af.
At this point in his career, Page switched to guitar, kept the bow
I’ve done this with my older sister, who is 47. When she hits me with “I never said that,” I send her screenshots of the text(s) where she said exactly that. Then she hits me with “That’s not what I *meant*,” because she absolutely cannot be wrong, even when she is absolutely wrong XD
Load More Replies...Having had a few run-ins with abusive customers, I am now recording the confrontations (surreptitiously) as evidence to thwart false accusations. And to confirm to myself that IWNTA in the interaction.
Screenshots served me well during my divorce proceedings. Keep that in mind when you're texting.
Nah, when they destroy their lives because of your dumb advice, you simply say they didn't do it right.
See the good and bad in all things. But make sure you screenshot the bad ones.
I tend to follow up my advice or even opinion with,"but what the fck do I know?"
I’ve come to apologize, when I called you a POS I didn’t realize you have Dysentery
me neither...I don't remember what they tasted like but I wish I'd never eaten them
well depends on what chemicals and c**p you don't are in the food causing insufficient bone strength and a lower sense of brain function
You are what you eat... Friend: what did you have for dinner? Me: depression with a side of anxiety, apparently
I gave my soon-to-be ex a Get Better Soon card on his last birthday with me. Knew it was over for us, but I was thinking of the poor woman who would follow.
Hoping you have a flock and the little beasties can see it there in your kitchen. Mean rooster? Off to the freezer coop.
Load More Replies...https://www.treehugger.com/fruit-and-veggies-that-used-look-whole-lot-different-than-they-do-today-4864247
Load More Replies...You know you got the crappiest present job when you have to clean up after the illustrator
Coincidentally, last night I dreamed of giant strawberries. They were about the size of 4 regular apples.
Poor bastard forced to tend the strawberry plants despite his strawberry allergy.
Could be. Older kids do sometimes read to their younger siblings, or did in the olden days when they only had books.
Load More Replies...Fount it. Google reverse image search to the rescue. “I have a bad feeling about this…” Front cover of German science fiction novel, SCHWUR AUF DEIMOS (Vow on Deimos) (1961), by Frank Berning.
Load More Replies...The morning shift coming in to take handover from the night shift...
A lot of old levers and dials scifi art was used as the basis for later scifi art.
True except for the night walkers among us. Example: one of the night auditors at the hotel I work at. She will only work nights.
But when else would a night auditor work? (said the night auditor).
Load More Replies...Vineyards Don't Want You To Know This One Simple Trick. You'll Be Shook!
Judas "I can make silver appear with just a few simple words"
Not a fan of wine, but had he turned water into a nice hearty stout, I might have stuck around.
Let me get this straight. You get 30 pieces of silver and I get a cross. When I come back, I am sooooo gonna haunt you …
when you are sleeping in class and get that sudden feeling that you are falling
that happended to me and now i have a terrible crush
Load More Replies...We have a chair at work that likes to do this to people. It's never not hilarious and this makes it even funnier.
I fell over backwards in a recliner. A friggin' recliner! Scared the daylights out of me. Never knew that was a possibility.
Your life flashes before your eyes but you fall asleep halfway because it is so boring.
Reminded me of the brothers in "Stardust". One gets murdered in the bath and is naked as a ghost. 🤣🤣
Load More Replies...I'm doing casual. Being a ghost is bad enough without having to deal with confining attire.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Load More Replies...Got one of these from a neighbour. Poor kid was born almost a stone weight and had to be kept in an incubator because the weight he'd put on gave him a host of different medical conditions. The child was squashed into the incubator. I've never seen the likes of it. Very sad. The mom has some psych issues and was extremely overweight and didn't know she was even pregnant. Poor child.
Lol that part always made you feel a little bit safer in this world
Load More Replies...Funny thing about Marx: he nails the truth with that statement, and yet is the greatest hypocrite in relation to it. Capitalist's great flaw is its bend towards materialism. (In this sense, I mean an exclusive fixation on material possessions and physical comfort.) And yet, socialism's only value is materialist; anything that does not exclusively result in material gains is made into its enemy. Not only religion, but familial ties, aesthetics and even solace are held as the enemy of progress. And if you think i'm being unfair, rather than warring proof-texts, I'd suggest simply looking at Soviet architecture. Or simply brutalism. (And yes, brutalism is from the government.)
Actually Marx was a true socialist. A worthless piece if s**t who lived like a parasite on any host that would let him.
Load More Replies...Because his, still covered in hair, smell like roses. GTFO with your weird body hair shaming.
Load More Replies...I've just had an idea for an adult site.
Load More Replies...When you told yourself 30 minute power nap, then it turned into 3 hours.
Even that doesn't always work. There's always that idiot who grabs his crotch and lets you know he can turn you.
Yeah, Sophie's choice shouldn't be the only option available.
Load More Replies......I simply have no choices. The singleness just radiates off of me and men keep their distance because they don't want to be infected.😐👍🏻
My serpent desires none lest thou possess buns, dearest.
Load More Replies...right now 23 guys, and seven women are thinking "I want some of that devil a*s"
This has got to be from the Jehovah's witness magazine. I think it's called "Awake" maybe
I received a handwritten letter from a Jehovah's witness last week... Poor Richard, having to copy that tripe over and over for the recycling bin.
Load More Replies...With the emails I get I'd have breasts the size of beach balls and my penis would drag on the ground as I walked along talking to a Nigerian Prince who wants to give me millions!!
Well, I would owe a harem with alll the lonely teens, successful business women and MILFs that live in my close proximity that saw my "profile" and want to meet me. And I would have thousands of Ninja air fryers that I won from companies I never bought anything from
Load More Replies...I was raised a Jehovah Witness so I can pretty much vouch that this is a picture from there printed publications 'Awake & Watchtower' magazine's.
Now show me the one where people treat each other like they do on social media.
Lol! Im a recovering addicit (5 years on Tuesday.) But I can relate I never wanted the alcohol!
But you can buy alcohol without saying anything to anyone, but to buy drugs you have to know people and interact with them. That's the only reason I have never tried drugs.
If you ever visit Holland, you can buy cannabis from a vending machine, which will save you the shame and danger of having to buy it from a drug dealer
Load More Replies...This is funnier if you know who Richard Bacon is, then it'll make sense.
I have this shot glasses at my and my grandparent's home. I dreamed to throw them away since eleven yo.
The "ancientcringe" link at the bottom left of the image takes you to Instagram©™® and the whole image. The bottom center hand is on India. BP does this often.
Load More Replies...'The Devilfish in Egyptian Waters. ' An American cartoon from 1882 depicting John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism grabbing land on every continent. Popular conceptions of power often invoke images of force and coercion, tending to emphasize the physical—that is to say, the more visible—sense of the word.
Just read your comment after posting. Thought alright it was something like that.
Load More Replies...Its unfortunate that it looks like the awful irish stereotype!!! But seriously I think the original did actually depict the spread of the British empire.
I don't know what's weirder. The fact that Western Europe just got up one day and said, I'm gonna go land boats on places, then just say that we own it. Or the fact that it actually worked.
I guess America is what Britain's covering with his hand. Doesn't look like George Washington happened yet.
I'm such a dork. The thing's got 11 arms and I think "TEN arms; squid are decapodiformes, not undecapodiformes!"
Arnold Voslo (bad guy from The Mummy) got a print gig. https://www.baldactors.com/
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!".
And sometimes all you can't do is accept what it is, because it is impossible to change.
Load More Replies...I prefer "there's nothing for it then". If you know, you know.
I had a manager that micromanaged everything and everybody, total control freak and that was her favorite saying. I had to suppress the powerful urge to slap her HARD across the face...
