30 funny comparisons from the world of sports and the world of art (31 photos)

It would seem that where is sports, and where is painting and sculpture... But imagine that someone is a great connoisseur of art and at the same time a fan of sports. Such a person is easily able to find unexpected similarities between the scenes on the playing field and the plot of a classic painting!





Thanks to the humorous Internet project Art But Make It Sports (“Art, but in a sporting way”) we have the opportunity to see how incongruous things come together.

1. “Oberon, Titania and Puck with the Dancing Fairies”, William Blake, 1786



2. “Golconda”, Rene Magritte, 1953

3. “Dance”, Andre Derain, 1906



4. “Barbara (Ant 113)”, Yves Klein, 1960



5. The Death of Achilles, Peter Paul Rubens, 1630s



6. “Saints Michael and Francis”, Juan de Flandes, 1505-09.



7. “Ossian and Malvina”, Johann Peter Krafft, 1810



8. “Saints Cosmas and Damian saved”, Fra Angelico, 1438-40.



9. “The Funeral of a Sardine”, Francisco Goya, 1812-19.



10. “Crucifixion of St. Peter with Donor”, work of a northern French artist, 1450s



11. Sculpture “For Handel” (originally red), Mark Di Suvero, 1975



12. Sculpture “Untitled”, Maurizio Cattelan, 2007



13. Kyle and Influence, Jamie Wyeth, 2000



14. “Love”, Gustav Klimt, 1895



15. Sculpture “Call to Arms”, Auguste Rodin, 1912-18.



16. “Pentecost (Pentecost)”, Bernart Van Orley, 1530



17. “The Stigmatization of Saint Francis,” Giotto, 1297-1300.



18. Rows of Cakes, Wayne Thiebaud, 1962



19. “Battle of the Lapiths with the Centaurs (Centauromachy)”, Sebastiano Ricci, 1705-10.



20. “Relief depicting clapping women,” Middle Kingdom, 2051-2000. BC.



21. “Archangel Michael”, Giuseppe Cesari (Cavalier d’Arpino), 1624-26.



22. “Self-portrait”, Joseph Ducret, 1783



23. "Angel of Peace", Walter Crane, 1900



24. “Lamentation of Christ”, Luis de Morales, 1560



25. “Sacrifice of Isaac”, Rembrandt, 1635



26. “The Dentist”, Jan Molenaar, 1629



27. “The Triumph of Bacchus (The Drunkard)”, Diego Velazquez, 1628-29.



28. “Saint Lucia before the Judge”, Lorenzo Lotto, 1532



29. “Argument over a card game”, Jana Steen, second half of the 17th century



30. “The Pointer and the Duck,” Arthur James Stark, mid-19th century