{"id":226,"date":"2024-05-02T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/05\/02\/emoji-art-history\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:01:20","slug":"emoji-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/05\/02\/emoji-art-history\/","title":{"rendered":"In an Emoji History of Art, ND Stevenson Playfully Recreates Iconic Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gustav Klimt, \u201cThe Kiss.\u201d All images \u00a9 ND Stevenson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More than 100 years after it was first exhibited, art historians still debate whether Marcel Duchamp<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFountain,\u201d submitted to the 1917 Armory Show in New York, was a wry joke or sly commentary on modern art\u2014or both. That\u2019s because the sculpture, a urinal the artist signed \u201cR. Mutt,\u201d was just a standard piece of plumbing. But Duchamp is also known to have coined the term \u201creadymade<\/a>,\u201d in which he displayed objects like bicycle wheels or snow shovels as artworks unto themselves, posing the fundamental question that still thrills theorists: \u201cBut is it art?\u201d<\/p>\n

If Duchamp were around today to know what an emoji was, he\u2019d probably love comic artist ND Stevenson<\/a>\u2019s take on \u201cFountain,\u201d composed of a slew of what we might consider 21st-century digital readymades. A few years ago, the artist figured out that he could add countless icons to the standard Instagram stories template, resizing and rearranging them to create original compositions.<\/p>\n

Starting with a basic background image, Stevenson adds numerous elements, like a fork standing in for a pitchfork in Grant Wood\u2019s \u201cAmerican Gothic\u201d or an upside-down red exclamation point in place of a necktie in Ren\u00e9 Magritte\u2019s \u201cThe Son of Man.\u201d For Johannes Vermeer\u2019s \u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring,\u201d a bowl and a cloud provide the basis of the subject\u2019s famous blue-and-white head wrap; a toilet stands in for Duchamp\u2019s urinal; and numerous flowers, evil eyes, books, cheese, and urns make up the patterns of Klimt\u2019s embracing figures in \u201cThe Kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth diving into Stevenson\u2019s post<\/a> for more emoji recreations.<\/p>\n

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Left: Grant Wood, \u201cAmerican Gothic.\u201d Right: Johannes Vermeer, \u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ren\u00e9 Magritte, \u201cThe Son of Man\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Left: Jacques-Louis David, \u201cThe Death of Marat.\u201d Right: Marcel Duchamp, \u201cFountain\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Georges Seurat, \u201cA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Left: Edward Hopper, \u201cNighthawks.\u201d Right: Salvador Dal\u00ed, \u201cThe Persistence of Memory\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard, \u201cThe Swing\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Left: Michelangelo, \u201cThe Creation of Adam\u201d detail of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Right: Francisco Goya, \u201cSaturn Devouring His Son\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vincent van Gogh, \u201cSunflowers\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article In an Emoji History of Art, ND Stevenson Playfully Recreates Iconic Paintings<\/a> appeared first on Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gustav Klimt, \u201cThe Kiss.\u201d All images \u00a9 ND Stevenson More than 100 years after it was first exhibited, art historians still debate whether Marcel Duchamp\u2019s \u201cFountain,\u201d submitted to the 1917 Armory Show in New York, was a wry joke or sly commentary on modern art\u2014or both. That\u2019s because the sculpture, a urinal the artist signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,214,425,258,456],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}