40 Classical Art Memes That Are Meaner Than They Need To Be But That’s What Makes Them Funny
Renaissance painters spent years perfecting their craft. They studied light, shadow, human anatomy. They created masterpieces that would hang in museums for centuries.
And now we’re using those masterpieces to complain about our screen time.
That’s what makes classical art memes so perfect. Some guy in 1550 painted a woman looking vaguely exhausted, thinking he was capturing the human condition. He was right. Just not in the way he expected. Five hundred years later, that same painting describes your Monday morning better than any modern photograph could.
These are those memes. Uncomfortably accurate. Historically significant. Brutally honest.
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