Perhaps the most successful mixed marriage of all time, this is the genius Tumblr “If Paintings Could Text.” The premise is bizarre yet very simple. They pair iconic paintings by the great masters with thought bubbles bearing Texts From Last Night-style captions, and the results are hilarious. There are a few hundred up on the site, so if you like these, go look at the rest!
Post script: I am off, gallivanting with the girls for a couple of days, so these next few entries are going to be brief, but I hope that the subjects of these OBTs are good enough that my brevity won’t be an issue.
(True story.) Raphael | Detail, Sistine Madonna | 1512
Jean-Honoré Fragonard | The Swing | 1767
Edward Hopper | Office At Night | 1940
Frans Hals | Shrovetide Revellers | c.1615
Vittorio Reggianini | An Illicit Letter | 1858-1924
Salvador Dali | Persistence of Memory | 1931
Mary Stevenson Cassatt | The Tea | c.1880
Lucas Cranach the Elder | The Judgement of Paris | c.1528
Édouard Manet | A Bar at the Folies-Bergère | 1882
Jacques-Louis David | The Intervention of the Sabine Women | 1799
Nicolas Poussin | The Athenaeum- The Infant Jupiter Nurtured by the Goat Amalthea | c. 1638
Grant Wood | American Gothic | 1930
John Everett Millais | Ophelia | 1852
Edward Hopper | Nighthawks | 1942
Henry Fuseli | The Nightmare | 1781
Henri Regnault | Salomé | 1870
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April 24, 2015 at 7:14 am
They are so funny and clever! Have a great few days with the girls! 🙂
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April 26, 2015 at 1:06 am
Thank you! I did!
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April 24, 2015 at 7:42 am
Great twist on a classic idea.
Even when you’re away you post? That’s dedication! Even scheduling them is impressive.
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April 26, 2015 at 1:08 am
Thank you! I hate to spoil my perfect record!
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April 24, 2015 at 10:04 am
nice!
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April 26, 2015 at 1:08 am
Glad you liked them!
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April 24, 2015 at 10:16 am
Bwah ha ha ha! These are superb. Thank you so much for the chuckle – and for the inspiration. I am planning to teach my kids a bit of History of Art this summer and I think it might be a fun exercise to get them to add speech bubbles to paintings. So long as they don’t then do the same thing in art galleries. That would be frowned upon.
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April 26, 2015 at 1:09 am
Yes. They definitely discourage that. I love your idea, though!
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April 24, 2015 at 12:09 pm
These are marvellous! I think I may have to explore the whole thing!
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April 26, 2015 at 1:23 am
Hope you have fun! It’s a great site.
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April 25, 2015 at 7:39 am
Crafty! Have fun with the girls!!
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April 26, 2015 at 1:26 am
I definitely did. I’m a little stupider, and a little poorer, but I’m back!
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