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"Last week marked the 25-year anniversary of the Graphics Interchange Format, better known to Web surfers as the GIF. The quick-burst animation file format, usually composed of just a few frames, was created by programmer Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987, and has since become and inescapable part of vernacular Internet culture.Though plenty of serious artists engage with GIFs (pronounced \u201Cjiffs,\u201D according to Wilhite) as a creative format, including online innovators like Ryder Ripps, Nicolas Sassoon, and Jeremiah Johnson,&amp;nbsp;ARTINFO has chosen a different route to honor this art form's anniveresary. Here, we collect 25 of the wackiest art-themed GIFs to ever cross your browser, including everything from a cavorting&amp;nbsp;Van Gogh&amp;nbsp;in bed and&amp;nbsp;Mondrian-themed Pong, to Banksy\u2019s stencilled cops making out and Ai Weiwei getting wild in his studio.Scroll down for our round-up of the 25 best art-historical GIFs:1. Dancing Van Gogh&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2. Stereoscopic Starry Night&amp;nbsp;3. Rotating Mona Lisa&amp;nbsp;4. Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg\u2019s Cinemagraphs&amp;nbsp;5. Duchamp / Nauman Fountain Mash-Up&amp;nbsp;6. Marina Abramovic Deals With It&amp;nbsp;7. Pong-Themed Mondrian, or Pong-drian&amp;nbsp;8. Spinning Hirst Butterflies&amp;nbsp;9. Salvador Dali: The \u201CArtist\u201D&amp;nbsp;is Present&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;10. Trippy Guernica&amp;nbsp;11. Picasso Paints&amp;nbsp;12. Salvador Dali\u2019s Surreal Elephant Walk&amp;nbsp;13. Magritte's Paratroopers&amp;nbsp;14. Matisse Drawing Comes Alive&amp;nbsp;15. Banksy\u2019s Cops Make Out&amp;nbsp;16. Thomas Kinkade\u2019s Burbling Brook&amp;nbsp;17. Hennessy Youngman Speaks Out&amp;nbsp;18. Andy Warhol\u2019s GIF-pire&amp;nbsp;19. Andy Warhol on TV&amp;nbsp;20. Ai Weiwei Goes Crazy&amp;nbsp;21. Ai Weiwei\u2019s Studio Gets Naked&amp;nbsp;22. Diane Arbus\u2019s Sword Swallower&amp;nbsp;23. Cyprien Gaillard\u2019s Beer Pyramid Gets Consumed&amp;nbsp;24. Creepy Bill Viola&amp;nbsp;25. Blingee Sol LeWitt&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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