A 2020 Story Told Through Art History Memes

Life Imitates Art

Meghan Gunn
Dec 23, 2020

In 2020, life went virtual:

Narcissus; Jules-Cyrille Cave, 1890
Not Waving, Just Painting; Jean Cooke, 1996

But some people still had fun, and they wanted to show us:

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1490

(they only took their masks off for the photo):

A Bacchanal; Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen, c. 1608

Meanwhile, the internet said kids were being trafficked in cabinets:

The Wilton Diptych (inset); Unknown, 1395

And old lovers re-emerged to stir the pot:

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