Would you be able to recognize some of the world’s most famous artists if they were reduced to smiley face stereotypes? From a one-eared Van Gogh to a melting Dali, the gang’s all here, boiled down to their simplest forms. After the jump, forget that intro class you took in college on art icons, and behold The History of Art in its entirety — as told via emoticons.
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Comments (12)
No women, what a surprise….
Who would you post?
Cindy Sherman, Eva Hesse, Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Kathe Kollwitz, Mona Hatoum, Camille Claudel, Tina Modotti, Barbara Kruger, Yoko Ono, Marlene Dumas, Helen Frankenthaler (whose technique influenced Noland and Morris Louis)…
Yoko Ono?? get a grip mate
its funny – everyone thanks of Yoko as a woman who broke up the beatles – she did impressionistic art and photos with herself as the subject – activism & anti- war movements . John Lenon said it with his own words that she was everything he saw in himself only coming out of the head of a woman. They , together did peaceful anti war activism staying in bed – doing news conferences under plastic bags so they’d be heard and not seen. She was doing art that would make people shift uncomfortably in their seats. And she was Asian with a pop icon during the time of the vietnam war. NOT exactly a safe thing to do but she did it anyway. I think she deserves a emoticon
I feel like I saw this on a teeshirt back in 93…
and yoko ono is awesome.
Technically, these are not “emoticons”…more like minimalist smiley faces.
This is definitely a t-shirt. One that I used to wear as a kid.
This is ancient! I count this as a fail for flavorpill.
…Niki de Saint-Phalle, Louise Scott, Marina Abramovic, Marisol Escobar …
Wow. I remember seeing this in the early 1980s. Nothing else to write about? Sheesh. At least update it. That could be fun. Though seems like many of our contemporary artists wouldn’t be so recognizable. These cats became household names.
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