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While we are familiar with Kanye West's fondness for art and design, we hardly ever hear of how his baby mama Kim Kardashian feels about fine art. Inspired by the rise in art/celebrity mash-up blogs, like Beyonce Art History and The Carter Family Portrait Gallery, we re-imaged major events Kim K's life with famous museum pieces. From Manet's Olympia and Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl, this is Kim Kardashian's Life According to Art.
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Meet Kim Kardashian—basically American royalty these days.
It was after Spainish artist Diego Velázquez became one of King Philip IV's court painters that he painted Las Meninas, a monumental work that portrays young Margaret Theresa of Spain. The famous painting draws to mind any given scene from Keeping Up With the Kardashians because, let's face it, the Kardashian family is practically America's royal family—or so Kris Jenner likes to think.
Kim joins Paris Hilton in the L.A. socialite scene, quickly becoming more famous than her former BFF.
Although Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton may have been best friends at one point, shopping by day and partying by night, that friendship has long since ended. It's no secret the two former friends have become rivals, competing with one another for the media's attention.
After Keeping up with the Kardashians premiered in August 2007, people grew tired of Paris, and Kim became the new queen bee. Despite the two L.A. girls' insistence that they have made up, we can't help but feel like they're just like the women depicted in Lawrence Alma-Tadema's 1891 work Unconscious Rivals. Tadema was a British painter who became famous for portraying the lavish and decadent lifestyle of the Roman Empire. Unconscious Rivals portrays two bored, wealthy women swathed in expensive dresses, hanging out on a balcony together. They look like friends, but they probably secretly want to kill one another.
The Kardashians take over everything.
After a few seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the world couldn't tear their eyes away from the famous family. Kim's sisters got their own days in the sun with Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, and Khloe & Lamar. The three even opened their third D-A-S-H store in New York. Needless to say, the three sisters have become inseparable, just like the women in Edmund Charles Tarbell's Three Sisters, A Study in June Sunlight, 1890. Similar to the sisters in Tarbell's painting, the Kardashian sisters are an iconic trio who never seem to leave the spotlight.
She marries and divorces Kris Humphries.
We're going to do Kimmy a favor and skim over her darker days, which really lasted only 72 days anyway. Kim met Kris Humphries, fell in love, spent millions on the wedding, and soon after got divorced. Perhaps the greatest thing to come from all of this mess is the famous Kim Kardashian crying meme. We think Kim's crying face bears a striking resemblance to Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl. Both women are crying rivers of tears because of trouble with their men.
Kim gets floured. Rumors of Kimye arise.
We can trace the start of Kim and Kanye's relationship to a single off G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer, "Cold." In the song, Kanye outwardly proclaims his love for Kim: "And I'll admit, I fell in love with Kim around the same she fell in love with him." He also sings, "Tell PETA my mink is dragging on the floor." The lyric is referencing when Kim was covered in flour by PETA activists for wearing fur. If Kim were a 16th century painting, we imagine her as much the mysterious Lady in the Fur Wrap, an El Greco work painted between 1577 and 1580, because of her fondness for fur.
Kim starts dating Kanye.
Enter Kanye West, "the number one rock star on the planet," according to his recent interview. Needless to say, Kimye really hit it off, and now they have North West together. See last month's Kanye West interview on the Kris Jenner Show for proof. We thought René Magritte's Lovers II accurately depicts their romance, but instead of cloth masks, as in the surrealist's work, Kimye wears Margiela masks. Kim wore hers for a photo shoot in the CR Fashion Book, and Kanye's mask comes from a performance he did in Atlantic City.
Kanye and Scott Disick become friends.
After a while of hanging around the Kardashian Klan, Kanye became tight buds with Lord Disick. They two are often seen looking like they run the town, much like Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors. In Holbein's work, the two ambassadors appear with trinkets from across the world that represent knowledge, wealth, and power.
Drake joins Kimye and family for dinner.
There was something epic about Drake joining Kanye and the rest of the Kardashian-Jenners for dinner a few weeks ago. In fact, the video of the family and rappers was so iconic, it conjured up the image of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Just like in the Old Master painting, Yeezus sits front and center with the rest of his disciples surrounding him.
Kim is Kanye's everything.
And last but not least, here's Kim as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Earlier this week, Kanye told the world that his girlfriend had given him a family, a support system, everything. The Mona Lisa is kind of like the "everything" woman of the art world, so the two ladies are a logical combination.