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# Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/guaranteed-to-make-you-smile-emoji-art-history-evolves/
- Published: 2013-08-15T19:52:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:10.000Z
- Description: Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Emoji, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![emoji-degas-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/emoji-degas-640.jpg)

Thanks to [Annie Werner](https://twitter.com/annie%5Fwerner/status/368091239448850432?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Tumblr, who has pointed out that [Emoji Art History](https://hyperallergic.com/emoji-art-history/) has gone to the [next level](https://twitter.com/VAJIAJIA/status/368091729712271361?ref=hyperallergic.com). Behold, *Emoji Degas*! Specifically, Edgar Degas’s “[Dancers Practicing at the Barre](http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edgar-degas/dancers-practicing-at-the-barre-1877?ref=hyperallergic.com)” (1877) meets the [ballet dancers](http://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/78/smileys/ballet-dancers?ref=hyperallergic.com) emoji (aka woman with bunny ears).

These 2.0 versions of one of our favorite digital art history games is the work of a new tumblelog (or its fans), appropriately titled, [emojinalart.tumblr.com](http://emojinalart.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com). I dare you not to smile at these quirky mashups:

![tumblr_mrl747gchz1sfxbt8o1_500](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_mrl747gchz1sfxbt8o1_500.jpg)

A Van Gogh self-portrait …

![tumblr_mrj9mjP6w61sfxbt8o1_500](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_mrj9mjp6w61sfxbt8o1_500.jpg)

Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” …

![tumblr_mrjpatkFse1sfxbt8o1_1280](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_mrjpatkfse1sfxbt8o1_1280.jpg)

Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” …

![Dali's "Persistence of Memory" …](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/tumblr_mrj1x3ooro1sfxbt8o1_500.jpg)

Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” …