Sam Spratt has PAINTED ALL THE MEMES!

Sam Spratt's website describes his work as having "sprattitude". This fine arts graduate combines classical training with current ideas, many of which stem from online media and internet memes. 

PAINT ALL THE MEMES!
Spratt's collection of paintings entitled Illustrated Internet is based on what he calls the visual vernacular of the internet. These paintings are based on popular internet media characters found in rage comics. Most of these characters are used online in their original form; simple black and white sketches of an expressive cartoon face. Spratt has fleshed out these characters by giving them a 3-dimensional existence.

Above: "Paint all the memes!" based on "X all the Y". This character has been used as a template for expressing a fanatical point of view. Notable variations are "Clean all the things!" and "Eat all the brains!" [source]

Above: The rage comics fffuuu face. The painting of the meme character is complete with flying spittle and red eyes. [source]

Above: An expressive painting of the meme Forever Alone. [source]

Paintings of Memes

Although there are thousands of fan art works of internet memes, Spratt's paintings are original in that he has removed the characters from their ordinarily 2-dimensional state and given them a fleshy substance. Although each of the faces still stands alone, bereft of a body, the characters are complete.

Sam Spratt's art style uses a combination of messy brushwork and careful lighting to create the overall effect of a character suspended in endless space.

Above: Trollface in 3D. The troll face rage comics character is used to express delight or humor at someone else's misfortune, and is often used in forums, comics and .gif animations. [source] See more trollface fan art works. 

Above: LOL face. Rumor has it that the original lolface appeared in Garfield Christmas 1987. [source]

Above: Me Gusta. The rage comics character is used to express a sickening enjoyment of disturbing media. [source]

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The Trollface (or Troll Face) character has its origins in a comic created by Deviant Art user Whynne in 2008. The original comic was intended to express how pointless trolling on 4chan was. Since its creation, the Trollface character has become an online meme, popping up in thousands of rage comics and fan art works.

Mona Lisa Troll Face

Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa, is a popular subject for character hybrids and parody art. In the picture below, the Mona Lisa gets trolled by the infamous meme, Trollface. Ordinarily Troll face is depicted in black and white, but the artist has used color in this Photoshop face swap to blend the two characters into one subject, the Trolla Lisa.

Above: Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, Mona Lisa, gets trollfaced. [source]

The Fine Art of Trolling

Artist Sam Spratt has PAINTED ALL THE MEMES! This fine arts graduate has created a series of paintings of internet memes and posted them online. One of the most appreciated paintings in the collections is the painting of Trollface. The character has been fleshed out, complete with wrinkles, shiny eyeballs and the hint of a tongue. This is most likely what Troll face would look like if he were real.

Above: Sam Spratt's artistic interpretation of Trollface shows the rage comics character as he would appear if he were made of flesh and blood. [source]

Trollface gives a Load of Lip

A photographed body art version of the famous meme, Troll face. The appeal of this photograph is that it doesn't use photo manipulation. Instead, this girl has used body paint to transform her own grin into that of Trollface. 

Above: Troll face gets lippy in this meme body art design. [source]

Trollface in his Troll Cave

In this meme fan art work, Troll face is depicted in his cave, trolling the internet with his troll laptop. The Trollface character is used on forums, in cartoons and in .gif animations to show that someone has been trolled, and is often added into videos at the moment where someone messes up.

Above: Deviantart's Faeorain shows Troll face as a humanoid troll character. [source]

Get Troll Faced on Halloween

Artist Psycho-Stress creates masks of popular memes, such as trollface, Me Gusta and Forever Alone for Halloween. The white plastic and black paint mimic the design of the original black and white Trollface sketch.

Above: Halloween gets troll faced with this internet meme fan art mask. [source]

Troll Face looks like Robin Williams?

This artist's painting of the rage comic character depicts troll face as looking a little like actor/comedian Robin Williams. 

Above: Problem? [source]

Photo Manipulated into Troll Face

For this artist, evolution was not happening fast enough, so he used Photoshop to turn this guy's face into a real life Trollface. For a bit of fun he's added a top hat, monocle and a pipe to create a steampunk affect.

Above: A Photoshop image manipulation depicting Trollface as a real human being. [source]

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Internet memes are ideas or media that go viral online, inspiring thousands of fan art works in a short time. There is no way to force something to become a meme or to predict what image, video or social action will become a meme. 

Meme Street Art
Street artists often reflect internet-based ideas through their art, incorporating popular online phenomena into their street murals. Online games, popular videos and internet cartoons are moving from the intangible world of the internet to the physical canvas of the streets. These appear in the form of spray painted and stenciled images or printed stickers.

Above: The Forever Alone meme is based on a rage comic character, and is often used to express loneliness or unhappiness. For a humorous effect one of the words from the phrase "forever alone" is replaced with another word, eg forever a foam. [source]

Above: Me Gusta, a spanish phrase that translates into English as "I like it" is associated with this rage comic face. Online, the Me Gusta face is used to express a perverse pleasure or the enjoyment of something disturbing or anti-social. [source]

Above: This clever vandal has transformed a road sign into a parody of the popular image of an owl with the abbreviation "O rly?" The phrase is often used in online forums as a sarcastic response to a statement that is either blatantly true or implicitly false. [source]

From the Internet to the Street
Many memes have a distinct character that doesn't change all that much, such as Lolcats' image of a cat riding an "invisible bike" and the character from challenge accepted. For other memes, the image changes and can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways, as with Nyan Cat and the Anonymous hacker group character.

Above: Lolcats famous Invisible Bike image has been recreated as an enormous graffiti mural, complete with, um, exhaust fumes. [source]

Above: Challenge Accepted graffiti. This character is often depicted facing near impossible situations, and has become an online symbol for determination and stubbornness. [source]

Above: Anonymous, Nyan Cat and Lulzsec get together to become the main subjects for this meme graffiti art work. Two hacker groups and a rainbow-farting pop tart cat. Not even Salvador Dali could have imagined such a painting. [source]

Above: Trollface, a linear drawing of a grinning face; presumably the face a person makes while trolling the internet. The trollface meme appears in videos, gifs moments after a person has been caught out, and on forums when someone reacts to a troll. [source]

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Internet memes are ideas, cultural items or social behaviors that are shared internationally through the internet. Memes are commonly videos or images that inspire others to create a spoof of the original media. 


Chuck Norris Meme Tattoo
Tough guy Chuck Norris has starred in many action films alongside notable martial arts actors such as Bruce Lee. Norris is best known for his role on the hit TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, a role that has inspired thousands of Chuck Norris jokes and comic illustrations.

Nyan Cat Youtube Meme Tattoo
The original Nyan Cat video was created by illustrator Chris Torres in mid-2011. It depicts a cat with a poptart body, flying through space trailing a rainbow. The simple, repetitive animation is accompanied by fast-paced music anime-styled music track.

Tattoo gets Rick Rolled
"Rick Rolling" is an online prank based on misleading an internet user before showing them a video of Rick Astley's 1987 hit song Never Gonna Give You Up. 

Youtube's Keyboard Cat Tattoo
Keyboard Cat is a video of a tabby cat that was filmed by his owner in the 1980s, being manipulated like a puppet to play an electronic keyboard. The video is posted on forums and included in mashup FAIL videos as a symbol of failure.

All your Base are Belong to Us Tattoo
The phrase, "All your base are belong to us" is a translation of one of the opening phrases from a popular 1980s shoot 'em up game, Zero Wing. This is one of the oldest internet memes, which has evolved alongside technology and media improvements.

Forever Alone Online Meme Tattoo
The Forever Alone meme features a rage comic cartoon character that is used to express anger, disappointment or disallusionment. The character inspired an involuntary flash mob in 2011, in fake profiles on an internet dating website, OKCupid, were used to invite dozens of lonely single men to meet them at a certain time in Time Square, New York. The men arrived, milling around in an involuntary flash mob, presented with posters of the Forever Alone character.

Amazing Horse Viral Youtube Video Tattoo
The viral youtube video Amazing Horse (aka Get on my Horse) is an animation that depicts the lyrics of a humorous, catchy song, in which it is insinuated that the amazing horse can fly and it's urine, lebelled horse pop, tastes like lemonade.

Icanhascheezburger Fridge Cat Tattoo
LOLcats and Icanhascheezburger are sites famed for their pictures of cats and other pets accompanied by funny captions. The captions are often miss-spelled, intentionally giving the animals a "cute" persona. Fridge cat is among the oldest LOLcats images, in which a cat peeks out of a fridge with the caption, "Im in ur fridge, eatin ur foodz."

Troll Face Tattoo
The troll face cartoon is a linear sketch of the expression that a person likely wears while "trolling" the internet. The activity of trolling is when an online user actively seeks out or creates disputes on forums and discussion boards. The Troll face has become a symbol of trolling activity, and is often pasted, sticker-like, over the face of a person or character believed to be trolling.

Domo Monster Internet Meme Tattoo
Domo is a Japanese designed character of a little brown monster. Domo is often Photoshopped into pictures of disasters as the "cause" of the disaster.

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