This account turns 'Art into Sports (and vice versa)' and doesn't rely on AI to find matching images.
The @ArtButMakeItSports Twitter account definitely has an uncanny eye for matching moments in sports to fine art pieces. How? These moments are similar in color combinations, poses and expressions. The account claims to turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) and reportedly does not use any Artificial Intelligence to match these pieces. According to My Modern Met, the account is run by LJ Rader who matches certain sports photographs with uncannily similar artwork he's come across.
The results of his matches are hilarious water-spitting combinations such that of Shohei Ohtani crying after ripping his UCL and an equally depressing sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon. Prepared to be entertained. Here are 25 combinations of moments in sports and fine art pieces that are too similar to go unnoticed.
The Winter, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1783, 📸 via @BenVerlander pic.twitter.com/MGRzejy4fC
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 24, 2023
Judith and Holofernes, by the studio of Tintoretto, 1577, 📸 by @jeffcohenphoto pic.twitter.com/wsipkitnQC
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 27, 2023
The Virgin of Carmel appears to Saint Simon Stock, by Giambattista Tiepolo, after 1746, 📸 via @cjzero pic.twitter.com/rQEz0i1sA1
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 24, 2023
Dying Gaul, original likely by Epigonus, 230 and 220 BC pic.twitter.com/nqwlDQXOMf
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 24, 2023
Larvik by Moonlight, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1839, 📸 by @abby_mueller_ pic.twitter.com/6HxcBWKtfT
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 23, 2023
Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck, 1434 https://t.co/KIu6Oif6ew pic.twitter.com/Tjr5UfVIlL
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 22, 2023
Saint Lucy Before the Judge, by Lorenzo Lotto, 1532, 📸 via @LockedOnOrioles pic.twitter.com/WoVneISO0x
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 20, 2023
Golconda, by René Magritte, 1953, 📸 by Joe Murphy pic.twitter.com/bSb6Tbl1rB
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 20, 2023
Apropos, by Deborah Remington, 1953, 📸 by Matt King pic.twitter.com/VSUirDM5Na
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 20, 2023
Two Women at a Window, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1655-60, 📸 by @Sportsnapper71 pic.twitter.com/clMPpzLOSD
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 20, 2023
The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dalí, 1931 pic.twitter.com/swWJJyclEx
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 16, 2023
The Resurrection, by Raphael, 1499-1502, 📸 by @JohnDortonPhoto pic.twitter.com/VUvpBKv8Nz
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 3, 2023
Untitled (Taxidermy Horse in Wall), by Maurizio Cattelan, 2007, 📸 by @lindseywasson pic.twitter.com/V5uLUnzR4w
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 9, 2023
Fat Red Boomerang, by Alexander Calder, 1972, 📸by Andy Kuno pic.twitter.com/cxzzdohkR2
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 18, 2023
Some @NBADraft images as art, a thread: American Gothic, by Grant Wood, 1930 pic.twitter.com/TUhEFe1jhj
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) June 23, 2022
Madonna and Child, by Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1370s, 📸 by Chris Hyde pic.twitter.com/myxj7iTNIY
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 3, 2023
Die Testamentseröffnung (Reading of the Will), by David Wilkie, 1820 pic.twitter.com/yogeau45nR
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) June 22, 2023
Ossian and Malvina, by Johann Peter Krafft, 1810, 📸 by @MikeEgerton_PA pic.twitter.com/W9jlkJs92R
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 11, 2023
Mercury Departing from Antwerp, by Peter Paul Rubens, 17th c, 📸 by Chris Szagola pic.twitter.com/OjxNWa7GpF
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 26, 2023
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, by Edward Bowser, 1640, 📸 by @CooperNeill pic.twitter.com/ab8uDprF6J
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 14, 2023
Self-Portrait, by Joseph Ducreux, 1783, 📸 by @melisportphoto pic.twitter.com/CpEazQQlzx
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 8, 2023
Chaim Soutine, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1917 pic.twitter.com/VcbOTvSDJa
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 22, 2023
The Archangel Michael, by Cavaliere d'Arpino, 1624-26, 📸 by Ferenc Isza pic.twitter.com/HpWXpbG4nF
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 19, 2023
Morning After a Stormy Night, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1819, 📸 via @greenshortwnt https://t.co/OhhL0IM6Gk pic.twitter.com/1X305eD6QQ
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 19, 2023
You're Gonna Give Me the Love I Need, by @mickalenethomas, 2010 pic.twitter.com/RG2CPFVOM7
— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 19, 2023