Gallery: Twitter Turns Fine Art Into Emoticons With #EmojiArtHistory
01ai-wei-wei
*__Stacked__* by Ai Wei Wei In his recent *Stacked* installment, Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei fused 760 bikes together for an examination of manufacturing and preferred transportation of millions of Chinese. \[via [@museummammy](https://twitter.com/museummammy/status/301210973618982913)\]
02bob-ross
__Bob Ross__ This particularly fine art Emoji doesn't focus on a specific piece of art, but rather beloved painter and star of *Joy of Painting* Bob Ross, and that's fine by us. The perpetually soothing and upbeat Ross was best known for his natural landscapes and the "happy little trees" that sprang up from his paintbrush. \[via [@okayokay](https://twitter.com/okayokay/status/301170978464075779)\]
03grant-wood-2
*__American Gothic__* by Grant Wood \[via [@alexrolfe](https://twitter.com/alexrolfe/status/301158863326044162)\]
04guo-qiang
__*Inopportune* by Cao Guo-Qiang__ In a multi-stage installation called *Inopportune*, Cao Guo-Qiang featured a series of cars surrounded by glowing rods that looked like a series of frozen explosions, freeze-frames from a tumbling vehicle. *Image: [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/images_by_christian/4857026700/in/photostream/)* \[via [@ManBartlett](https://twitter.com/ManBartlett/status/301148828868964352)\]
05andy-warhol
*__Formula 1 Car W196 R, 1954__* by Andy Warhol \[via [@sabrina\_hughes](https://twitter.com/sabrina_hughes/status/301174677928304641)\]
06rembrandt
*__The Abduction of Europa__* by Rembrandt \[via [@GettyMuseum](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/301232732904767489)\]
07damien-hirst
*__For the Love of God__* by Damien Hirst A platinum cast of an 18th century skull covered in more than 8,600 diamonds, *For the Love of God* is perhaps the most expensive memento mori ever, selling for reportely more than $50 million pounds. \[via [Ladies Up Front](http://ladiesupfront.tumblr.com/post/41413918076/in-which-i-discover-the-seemingly-limitless)\]
08jean-brueghel-the-elder
*__Noah's Ark__* by Jean Brueghel \[via [@GettyMuseum](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/301251018312785920)\]
09marina-abramovic
*__Rhythm Zero__* by Marina Abramovic IN 1974, Yugoslavia perfomance artist Marina Abramovic participated in a daring and disturbing experiment where she offered viewers a table full of objects that could either cause pleasure (a rose) or pain (a knife, a whip, and even a gun and bullet) and announced she would not resist anything they did for six hours. Although the audience was initially friendly, the longer Abramovic remained passive, the more violent and violating they became, even threatening her with a loaded gun. [#iframe: http://www.moma.org/audios/embed/190/1972](660x370)|||||| \[via [Ladies Up Front](http://ladiesupfront.tumblr.com/post/41413918076/in-which-i-discover-the-seemingly-limitless)\]
10diane-arbus-2
*__Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967__* by Diane Arbus \[via [@WalnutWood](https://twitter.com/WalnutWood/status/301211068296986625)\]
11chris-burden-2
*__Shoot__* by Chris Burden In Burden's controversial 1971 performance piece, he was literally shot in his left arm by an assistant with a .22 rifle. His other acts of performance act have included crawling through 50 feet of broken glass with his hands tied behind him, and crucifying himself on a Volkswagen Beetle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5u3ThYyl4 Shoot *by Chris Burden* \[via [@ManBartlett](https://twitter.com/ManBartlett/)\]
12ambrosius-boschaert-the-elder
__*Still Life of Flowers* by Ambrosius Boschaert the Elder__ \[via [@GettyMuseum](https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/301240660558749696)\]
13john-cage
*__4'33__* by John Cage An experimental composition by musician John Cage, *4'33* is a three-movement piece -- and one that the performer is never meant to play. Instead, listeners to hear to the sounds that the silence allows them to hear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4 \[via [@farianfartin](https://twitter.com/farianfartin/status/301198667090640896)\]
14damien-hirst-2
*__Spot Painting (1986)__* by Damien Hirst \[via [@VAJIAJIA](https://twitter.com/VAJIAJIA/status/301160727878696961)\]
15david-hockney
*__Pearblossom Highway__* by David Hockey \[via [La Louver](http://blog.lalouver.com/)\]
16judy-chicago-2
*__The Dinner Party__* bu Judy Chicago First created by artist Judy Chicago in 1979, this installation imagines a table set for important women of myth and history, range from Hatshepsut to Virginia Woolf, in order to "end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of the historical record." \[via [@Bungy32](https://twitter.com/Bungy32/status/301164032424034305)\]
17robert-smithson-2
*__Spiral Jetty__* by Robert Smithson An earthwork structure created near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Robert Smithson's *Spiral Jetty* is over 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. *Image: [Wikimedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spiral-jetty-from-rozel-point.png)* \[via [@mrb\_bk](https://twitter.com/mrb_bk/status/301322254007021569)\]
18audrey-flack-2
*__Memento Mori__* by Audrey Flack \[via [@bbqbitch1000](https://twitter.com/bbqbitch1000/status/301248369173618688)\]
19rene-magritte-2
*__The Treachery of Images__* by René Magritte \[via [@runlolarun](https://twitter.com/runlolarun/status/301179109562785792)\]
20janet-cardiff-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBxLX7bZZQ *Video from the Sound Installation* The Murder of Crows *by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller* via [@ManBartlett](https://twitter.com/ManBartlett/status/301156087611138048)
