#EmojiArtHistory is a Twitter hashtag associated with reinterpretations of famous artworks throughout history through only using emojis. The idea for the hashtag came from a Tumblr post submitted by ladiesupfront which featured four iPhone screenshots of text messages sent from a friend who tried to recreate artistic masterpieces with emoji characters.

A couple of weeks later, Brooklyn-based artist Man Bartlett reblogged the photoset, leading him to use the hashtag #EmojiArtHistory for the first time with an emoji of a man and a gun to represent Chris Burden’s 1971 conceptual performance piece, Shoot.