40+ Classical Art Memes for High Brow Chucklers

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Nov 6, 2023 6:00 PM EST

One of life's greatest pastimes is going to a fine art museum, finding a centuries-old portrait of someone looking a lil' ugly, pointing to it, and saying to your friend, "You." Is that dilettante-ish and amateur? No, it's hilarious. And any way we can connect with art is ultimately worthy. We haunt the museum halls in order to find connection, reach into the annals of time, and find something relatable. Art connects us to the past, showing us that an 18th-century banquet is not all that different from a 21st-century dinner party, except we have fewer goblets. 

The memes contained in this list take that concept to the nth degree, making manifest the relatability inherent in these artworks. Enjoy this arsenal of art memes, sure to stoke the fancies of cultured gentlefolk such as yourselves. Hang them in your home, and invite friends over to drink wine in front of them. 

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    PAINTING: "The arrival of the electric bill." Oil on canvas.
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    When you're getting destroyed in an argument so you correct their grammar
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    "That moment when you're about to join the Revolution and you realise you'd promised to take the kids to the park.
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    When you just got a new country and you leave your kids alone with it for a couple centuries and they've already broke it. TheGladStork 500
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    When you write "u" instead of "you".... LuDee wwwXXXX TRUM. DUDULJUS ...and don't know what to do with all the time you saved.
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    Depression leaving my body after someone said "Just don't be sad." Colage lealdamn credits: onlasscaldamn s
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    When I'm feeling Suspiciously relaxed: LuDee What responsibility have I forgotten?
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    10 ST'S ON FIRE, YO
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    When you just sat down and someone calls your name **
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    When the ceremony's been over for hours and you remember you didn't take the baby out of the water after the baptism. AMORIS LAETITIA
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    When it's 3am and you're still awake, reflecting on your own existence: I think, therefore I don't sleep
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    If I had a dollar for every time I didn't know what was going on, I'd be like, why am I always getting money? CHEESYLAVEDA by
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    it is easier to practice self-restraint from dumb choices as you get older. not because you're wiser, but because you're tired @ElyKreimendahl Memes of Art & Existential Dread
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    Introverts preparing to ask the waitress for extra ketchup 221 No.com/classicalartmemes
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    When you're dead but the ceiling is leaking
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    When your nose is stuffed and you just sit there and think about the time when it wasn't stuffed and how you took breathing freely for granted
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    My cat watching me clean out it's litter box @classicaldamn
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    When you're 13 and discover drop D. I
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    When you are in the middle of a revolutionary war but the beat is pure fire
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    When I said "have her stoned", this isn't what I meant WERVN TEREV EINT. DERWERFFE DEN ERSTENSTEIN AVFESIE TOHVI
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    If soap smells good but tastes horrible... how do we know doesn't taste like candy? What the... QUA Wall
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    When you're pooping and you feel a splash
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    me after waving back to someone who was waving to the person behind me
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    When you do a silent fart but everyone stills knows it was you
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    *invention of archery* "Man I really wanna stab this dude, but he way tf over there
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    When someone starts an argument with me about something I know a lot about
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    Divergent Mama @Divergentmama [LOUD CRASHES IN KIDS ROOM] Me: what is going on in there? [SCREAMS COMING FROM KIDS ROOM] ME: okay that's enough *opens door* Kids: 7:26 AM 5/6/20 - Twitter for Android
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    Concentrating so hard on the appropriate eye-contact-to-looking- away ratio that you have no idea what's being said to you
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    When you google someting to support your argument and you find out you're wrong
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    When your kid's been yelling "daddy you're not watching" for ten minutes and then you look and they're just wearing a gum wrapper like a hat or something R 150
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    When you're leaving the house for a night out and you have to stiff arm your toddler so he can't smear graham-cracker-snot-butt-crumb paste all over your adulting clothes. @torturedbytoddlers
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    Chris Roach, Creator It went off while I was cleaning it Medieval Merri Photo
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    When someone is waving in your direction and you're not sure if it's to you
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    When you're halfway through a game of Monopoly and someone insists on reading the rulebook.
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    Me, an intellectual, judging people for making the same mistake I recently learned to stop making
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    "Wow, an arrow. Sooo original."
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    octopus/caveman @OctopusCaveman I want to do whatever drugs Hieronymus Bosch did when he thought about painting a bird person wearing a kettle as a hat eating a naked man that is pooping out birds 2:48 PM 04 Feb 20- Twitter Web App
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    When the waiter is explaining the entire menu but you just want chicken tendies and fries
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    How I sleep knowing that I'm unimportant and nobody's priority
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    AWAKEN WENCH! Though it hast not yet been emptied, the bottom of our kibble chalice is once again visible
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    oh you found us you found us with your guitar hey guys he found us and he brought his guitar with him
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    "Does it look like I'm going downstairs?" XXX
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    When you're at a party and you only know one person
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    When you're both typing so you delete what you were gonna say to let them message first but they do the same thing (
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    When I bark at my dog and end up deeply insulting him: PATATES
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    When the whole church peer-pressures you into taking a fat tab of acid
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    This 16thC guy was miles ahead of hipsters everywhere with an amazing cat t-shirt. He knows he is gonna be on trend in five centuries time. fore
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