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If Famous Paintings Could Text, They Might Sound Just Like Us

If Famous Paintings Could Text, They Might Sound Just Like Us
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Digital Innovation Fellow, The Huffington Post

If only these walls -- or the paintings on them -- could talk.

Well, now they can. Or they can text, at least.

Thanks to the Tumblr blog "If Paintings Could Text," an apt mashup of iconic art and artful texts, the subjects of famous paintings can actually narrate themselves. What are the farmers in Grant Wood's "American Gothic" so disgruntled about? If Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" could text, what would be her tone? Who would drunk-text? Who would booty call? Who would complain to a friend about last night's debauched decisions?

Look below to find out, in this delightful meeting of technologies old and new.

Rene Magritte, "The Lovers"
Guido Reni, "Bacchus and Ariadne"
William Adolphe Bouguereau, "Idylle"
Carl Herpfer, "The Love Missive"
Grant Wood, "American Gothic"
Edward Hopper, "Office At Night"
Leonardo da Vinci, "Mona Lisa"
Gabriel Metsu, "The Old Drinker"
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, "Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca"
Frank Dicksee, "An Offering"
Jacob Jordaens, "The King Drinks"
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "The Swing"
Roy Lichtenstein, "Girl in Mirror"
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "At the Café La Mie"
Arturo Ricci, "Afternoon Tea"
Willem de Kooning, "Woman, I"
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, "The Death of Harmonia"
Robert Reid, "Fleur de Lis"
Jean Honoré Fragonard, "The Love Letter"

h/t The Awesomer

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