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# Dumb Emoji Art History
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/dumb-emoji-art-history/
- Published: 2014-06-09T19:41:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:18.000Z
- Description: Hokusai must be turning in his grave.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: In Brief, Emoji, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

[![i.chzbgr-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/06/i-chzbgr-640.jpg)](http://cheezburger.com/7622941952?ref=hyperallergic.com)

[Hokusai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai?ref=hyperallergic.com) must be turning in his grave.

And today in [#emojiarthistory](http://hyperallergic.com/64988/emoji-art-history/), [Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel](http://emojipoems.tumblr.com/post/38748388534/after-michelangelo?ref=hyperallergic.com#notes) has been reduced to this:

[![enhanced-buzz-14747-1369061626-20-1](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/06/enhanced-buzz-14747-1369061626-20-1.jpg)](http://emojipoems.tumblr.com/post/38748388534/after-michelangelo?ref=hyperallergic.com#notes)

There’s also the [emoji-fication of David Hockney](http://fuckyeahemoji.tumblr.com/post/43342190452/thedailywhat-twitter-hashtag-of-the-day?ref=hyperallergic.com):

[![tumblr_miad4vrbsa1qzpwi0o1_500](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/06/tumblr_miad4vrbsa1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)](http://fuckyeahemoji.tumblr.com/post/43342190452/thedailywhat-twitter-hashtag-of-the-day?ref=hyperallergic.com)

And then there’s this (no words):

(*Hokusai h/t Alexander Cavaluzzo, via* [*BuzzFeed*](http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/we-cant-have-nice-things?bffb&ref=hyperallergic.com) *and* [*Failblog*](http://cheezburger.com/7622941952?ref=hyperallergic.com)*; da Vinci h/t Claire Voon, via* [*Nerve*](http://www.nerve.com/art/da-vincis-the-last-supper-gets-an-emoji-makeover-in-this-strangely-mesmerizing-vine?ref=hyperallergic.com))