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Wemby's angelic playoff pose is latest viral craze from Art But Make It Sports creator

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Art But Make It Sports meme account pairs viral sports photos with images of paintings, drawings and sculptures in LJ Rader's unexpected mashups.

Youโ€™ve heard about phones blowing up. Well, LJ Raderโ€™s actually did once. He got so many mentions and DMs and new followers that his phone overheated and stopped working.

(To be fair, it was already low on battery. But still. ) This is what happens when the NFL asks you, the genius behind the Art But Make It Sports meme account, to do something with a photo of a shirtless Jason Kelce leaning out a stadium window with a beer in his hand, and you respond with Phillips de Koninck's โ€œThe Feast of Bacchus.

โ€ Your phone, and your account that pairs photos of viral sports moments with images of fine art, blows up. "You're taught you have to pick one. You have to be an athlete or an artist, you can't do both.

I've kind of shown people that you can like both art and sport," Rader said during a talk last week at the Art Institute of Chicago . The Feast Of Bacchus, by Phillips de Koninck, 1654, ๐Ÿ“ธ by @k__h__r pic. twitter.

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