If Paintings Could Text

Submission 17,963

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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."