If Paintings Could Text

Added • Updated about a year ago

Added by Molly Horan • Updated about a year ago by Brad

Category: Meme Status: Submission Year: 2014 Origin: Tumblr Region:

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Tags: art, text, tumblr, single topic blog,

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You need a hobby I have a hobby Being sad isn't a hobby

i'l be there in 5 min. If not, read this again.

I don't know what kind of drugs you were on last night but you kept trying to highlight my face because you said I was important

i don't remember it, but i know we had sex because my stuffed animals were facing the wall

I just rolled a blunt and took my bra off. I'm not going anywhere

I stopped calling them hangovers and started calling them mornings a long time ago.

About • Origin • Spread • Notable Examples •

IF PAINTINGS COULD TEXT A REVIVAL OF CLASSICAL ART AND EPIC TEXTS.

About

If Paintings Could Text is a single topic blog which curates a variety of famous paintings celebrated throughout art history, with each accompanied by a screenshot of a fictional, and often whimsical, text message written from the perspective of the subject(s) depicted in the artworks.

Origin

[currently researching]

The Tumblr blog If Paintings Could Text^[1] was launched by an anonymous blogger on June 18th, 2014.

Spread

On August 26th, the blog launched its own supplementary Twitter account.^[4] As of late October 2014, the account has gained over 120,000 followers. On September 15th, Buzzfeed^[2] picked up on the blog in a compilation post titled "This Tumblr Shows You What It’d Be Like If Classic Paintings Could Text And It’s Awesome." On September 18th, the German web culture blog Whudat^[6] named "If Paintings Could Text" the Blog of the Day. On September 26th, CollegeHumor^[3] covered the blog. On October 27th, Bustle^[5] published a post titled "If Paintings Could Text Is the Inevitable Tumblr We've Been Waiting For."