Someone who’s taking on that difficult work brilliantly is 26-year-old artist Alim Smith. The painter recreates famous memes on canvas using a surreal, distorted style of portraiture.

For the art world, becoming a meme might just be one of those metrics. After all, living on in people’s Photoshop queues and social media ensures that an artist’s name echoes throughout ...

The meme has been around so long that it has infiltrated other memes. Installation view of "Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images" at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2017.

The late Colombian artist made his name creating plump caricatures of famous paintings and people. The "y tho" meme is based on Fernando Botero's painting Pope Leo X (after Raphael (1964).

Hyperallergic took works by some of our favorite artists and reimagined what they would look like during these, um, sparsely populated times. Valentina Di Liscia March 17, 2020 ...

Fine-art paintings of Internet memes It used to be that oil painting was reserved for subjects presumed to have great lasting import, like Biblical scenes and heads of state.

The 'Bad Luck Brian' meme sold for $36,000 on March 9 as a piece of digital art. The meme first appeared in 2012. Now it's part of a series of non-fungible tokens containing internet memes and ...