I have a Canva account and I WILL use it! Behold the fruits of my labor:

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Johannes Vermeer
🐃🥞🥖🍞⚪👗👁️👩‍🦯

I've read that Vermeer may have painted with what was new technology during his time: a lens. I wondered if I should feel some sort of solidarity, working with emoji. (I didn't)

 

The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli
💭☁️📘📗🌳🌿🌼🌺🤸‍♀️🤽‍♂️🏄‍♂️💪👗🧣🧖‍♀️🐚

For the attendant on the right, I needed an emoji with an arm up, and my only choices were 🤸‍♀️ or 🧗‍♀️. I went with the cartwheel but now the attendant looks taken aback at the sudden appearance of a sauna lady 🧖‍♀️.

 

Lady with an Ermine - Leonardo da Vinci
👰🙎‍♀️📿➖🫱🦦

The painting that started my emoji spree. A few days after making this, I went to the Czartoryski Museum, and found myself thinking: lol... i c u leonardo and your giant hands

 

Las Meninas - Diego Velázquez
🖼️🧑‍🎨🖌️🎞️👗🌅🌉🏞️🪞🏞️🌃➖
🧘‍♀️💃🐕🕺 👫🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧎‍♀️‍➡️👧⛹️

 

Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David
☁️⛰️🕺🥐🥊 🧣🐎🚲🏃‍♂️🚶‍♂️🤾‍♂️🏄‍♂️

The closest emoji that I could match to a tricorne was the croissant emoji, which felt sort of racist.

 

The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai
🥚☁️🛶🌊

Why does mine look off-center, while Hokusai's doesn't? Is it because Hokusai is an actual artist? WHAT IS ART!?

 

American Gothic - Grant Wood
💬🌳🔩🏦🏤👨‍🌾👩‍⚖️👗

The female judge emoji and the farmer emoji, brought to you by FarmersOnly.com

 

The Scream - Edvard Munch
🎞️🌊🥓🥟🪵⛵🕴️😱

As you can see, bacon 🥓 is surprisingly versatile.

 

Ophelia - John Everett Millais
🌼🥀🌹🌻💐🍇🍆🥦🌳🌿
🍂🌱🐶👚🤚✋🧘‍♀️😑💎💭

Bacon 🥓 continues to be demonstrate its versatility. You know how many flowers there are in Ophelia....? TOO MANY!!!!!! Fortunately, there's Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V.

 

As a card-carrying slacker, I soon grew tired of dealing with the sheer amount of details in real paintings. I decided to sell out and do commercial art instead.

Jurassic Park
🟡⭕🏮🦖🐃

 

Little Miss Sunshine
🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💃🚐🧎‍➡️🙍‍♂️

 

Jaws
💭🔷🦈🏊‍♂️

Occasionally, I ran into the limitations of my chosen art medium. Instead of a shark that looks like it wants to feed, it looks fed up.

 

The Silence of the Lambs
🙍‍♀️🦋

 

In a truly annoying full circle moment, this artist began to find that most iconic movie posters lack in detail. A conscious decision was then made to pursue more complex, uh, pieces.

Parasite
🏡📗🧍‍♂️🧍👫➖⛰️🍷🏀🎪👞

I couldn't find the right kind of deck chair emoji for Parasite, so instead of lounging around on their front lawn, the couple instead look like they've had a few too many.

 

Back to the Future
🤾‍♂️😲💪🕶️⌚🚘🗯️💭🔥➖🏙️

You have now reached the end of my career in emoji art. I'M RETIRED!!