15 funny comparisons that show that art and sports are not far apart (16 photos)

“Incompatible is compatible” - this is exactly what this post can be called. After all, who would have thought that sport and art would be one step away from each other and there would be much more in common between them than we could have imagined.





Its author compares photographs of athletes and various matches with objects of art, showing that even such dissimilar things there will be coincidences! Here are some works that prove that this is indeed the case.

Leap into the unknown



Exhibit of the exhibition dedicated to the new sculptural series of Santiago Calatrava called “Egineten”.

Sport is a drama





Rembrandt's painting "Isaac and Rebecca", 1665.

Lively debate here and there



"Village Politicians", John Lewis Krimmel, 1819.

We are all a little bit Vincent van Gogh



"On the Threshold of Eternity", Vincent van Gogh, 1890.

Legendary game



“Veterans”, Richard Kreyfelds, 1886 - with this picture the author compared the chess game of two famous football players, Ronaldo and Messi. The sensational photograph of football players for the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz and was called “Winning is a State of Mind.”

The look of a madman



Reading the Will, David Wilkie, 1820

"The Great Wave of Kanagawa" or in this case a big wave on the head of an athlete



Defeat or victory?



Statue of San Sebastian, Ricardo Motilla, 2008.

Perfect Likeness



Painting "Transfiguration", Mary Barnes, 1969.

This time the ball came



An amazing comparison of the moment of the game with the famous painting “The Man in the Bowler Hat”, Rene Magritte, 1964.

Passion on Ice



"The Kiss" is a marble sculpture that was created by Auguste Rodin in 1882.

Almost one to one



"The Bridesmaid", John Everett Millais, 1851.

Buddha on the football field



Marichi - Buddhist goddess of the dawn, China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.

Great back stretch!



One of Edgar Degas' sculptures.

The headdress turned out to be slightly too big in both cases



The painting is called "Young Man with a Large Hat", Frans Hals, 1628-30.