Oil paintings inspired by Internet memes

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 10, 2008 2:49 PM | permalink

Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek -- previously featured here for his oil paintings from classic video games -- is now painting oils of Internet Memes (pictured here: Dramatic ~~Hamster~~ Prairie Dog). Link

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#1 posted by Tgg161

, March 10, 2008 3:00 PM

yipe, there's one NSFW painting near the bottom of the page. Heads up.

Interesting link, otherwise.

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#2 posted by archcvd , March 10, 2008 3:00 PM

Dramatic Chipmunk*

Heheh.

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#3 posted by randee

, March 10, 2008 3:03 PM

And I thought it was Dramatic Guinea Pig!

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#4 posted by Bek , March 10, 2008 3:04 PM

The Dramatic Chipmunk is neither dramatic nor a chipmunk. Discuss...

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#5 posted by Antinous , March 10, 2008 3:06 PM

It's Drama Prairie Dog.

And Techno Viking would make a nice stocking stuffer if anyone's feeling generous.

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#6 posted by jody

, March 10, 2008 3:07 PM

Yo! It's Dramatic Prairie Dog!

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#7 posted by Chava , March 10, 2008 3:17 PM

That link desperately needs a NSFW... you'll be hearing from my lawyers when I get kicked to the curb.

/My fault for Boing Boinging at work, but still...

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#8 posted by Cry Me A River , March 10, 2008 3:32 PM

My wife posted a photo of her painting of the Dramatic Prairie dog to her blog last summer:

http://plasticmasters.blogspot.com/2007/08/kingston-womens-festival-preview-stink.html

Guess I need to be more proactive about pimping the Boing...

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#9 posted by twodotone , March 10, 2008 3:35 PM

I'd like to point out Miltos Manetas as one of the early internet painters.
I also liked his videogames painting.
all of this dates back to 2001/2

http://www.internetpaintings.com/
http://www.manetas.com/art/paintings/selected/index.htm

he's always been a visionary

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#10 posted by slackster23 , March 10, 2008 4:23 PM

Here's an old internet meme turned art some of ya'll might enjoy . . .

ghost in a jar

here's a link to the original ebay auction . . .

http://secretcrypt.com/monthly/jun03/jar2.htm

. . . and to the artist, Regia Marinho

http://www.regiaart.com/

My snapshot doesn't do it justice tho . . .

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#11 posted by franko , March 10, 2008 5:21 PM

it's worth noting that the exclamation-prompting NSFW image at the bottom is a close-up, cropped shot of a classic painting “L’Origine du monde” from 1866 by courbet. still shocking - art FTW!

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#12 posted by satman , March 10, 2008 5:30 PM

I misread.
So I'm thinking... Steven Colbert painted a vagina?????

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#13 posted by alisong76 , March 10, 2008 5:34 PM

If nothing else, this entry led me to the awesomeness that is Techno Viking. What a hero!

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#14 posted by ill lich , March 10, 2008 5:37 PM

So. . . it used to be said "art imitates life". . . now what exactly do we call THIS?

Anyway, the groundhog/whistlepig/prairie dog one is quite nice.

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#15 posted by LSK , March 10, 2008 6:31 PM