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Emoji Art
IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo (Klimt painting, left); Courtesy ND Stevensen (Emoji Art, right)
This masterpiece isn’t made with paints or pastels—it’s made with emojis! Comic artist ND Stevenson used Instagram’s resizable emojis to give famous paintings a “symbolic” makeover. His re-creations include Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (right) and Grant Wood’s American Gothic.
In his reinterpretations, Stevenson shows off his mastery of emojis by adapting the different shapes and colors to resemble mediums like oil paint or watercolor. It’s an artistic technique that requires more sophistication than it looks, but Stevenson himself asks, “is it ART????” in an Instagram post.
Stevenson’s version of The Kiss uses different flower emojis to create the grassy field. If you have 4 pink, 2 red, 2 white, and 3 yellow flower emojis, how many combinations can you make using 1 flower of each color? Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.