{"id":6083,"date":"2023-12-23T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2023-12-23T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T09:23:44","slug":"an-ode-to-meme-culture-funny-paintings-by-simion-tiberius-ciucinciu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/an-ode-to-meme-culture-funny-paintings-by-simion-tiberius-ciucinciu\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to MEME Culture: Funny Pop Surrealism Paintings by Ciucinciu"},"content":{"rendered":"
Simion Tiberius aka Ciucinciu is an artist hailing from Bucharest, Romania. His meme-themed art favors a humorous pop-surrealism style that is well-suited to the poster prints that he sells through a variety of online poster print shops<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Working both with physical paint and digital painting software, Ciuncinciu is adding to the funny meme culture of the internet. Most internet users enjoy a laugh from time to time and humorous art is always a smash hit online, with funny meme art often going viral and popping up millions of times all over the world.<\/p>\n Ciucinciu likes to use animals in his surrealist meme paintings, which nowadays he mostly creates in digital painting software similar to Adobe Photoshop. He seems to have an especial liking for fat cats as chonky cats appear in the majority of his recent art works. Funny photos of cats have been popular online since the 90s, with internet users emailing cute and silly photos of their cats to each other. People would add a funny caption and send the image on to the next person, who’d send it to the next person. By the time the lolcat-dedicated website I can haz cheezburger?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>appeared in the mid-noughties<\/a> (2007), the meme culture surrounding funny cat photos was already thriving and so Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami<\/a>‘s gift to the internet community was well-received.<\/p>\n The next iteration of lolcat culture online was meme art; these are art works, often digital, that add to or transform the original image in some way so that the meme evolves as it travels around the internet from one artist’s hands to another. Simion Tiberius’s art is an offshoot of this game; he is taking images of animals like cats and ducks and painting them into funny and surreal scenes to create an image that is an homage to meme-culture and humor fans the world over.<\/p>\n You can own your very own funny surrealist poster by Simion Tiberius Ciucinciu. His linktree<\/a> provides plenty of different sites where you can buy his art posters online. You can also follow Simion on Instagram<\/a> to see more of his funny Photoshop art. (His linktree link is in his Instagram bio if you’d like to buy a poster at a later date.) Or, follow him on Facebook<\/a> – his public photos of his life in Romania are often worth a laugh too.<\/p>\nLol Cats and Ducking Funny Ducks<\/h1>\n
Here’s some funny meme art by the characterful artist Simion Tiberius Ciucinciu:<\/h3>\n