--- title: Doctors medicalize Art memes Photos description: Doctors diagnosing history's finest art is the latest funny meme spreading on social media. canonical: https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-30T18:44:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:00.426Z og:title: Doctors Are Having Fun Diagnosing Fine Art With #MedicalizeArt og:description: Apparently Venus de Milo is missing a limb og:url: https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Doctors Are Having Fun Diagnosing Fine Art With #MedicalizeArt twitter:description: Apparently Venus de Milo is missing a limb twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Doctors Are Diagnosing Fine Art Masterpieces With #MedicalizeArt by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 30, 2017 6:44 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 30, 2017 6:44 PM UTC A new trendy [meme](http://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/) is picking up some steam on the internet: doctors offering medical analysis of [works of art](http://time.com/4705666/alim-smith-meme-photos/). It’s the #MedicalizeArt meme that began spreading on Twitter Tuesday as licensed symptom checkers started having fun identifying the ailments of the subjects brought to life in history’s finest paintings and sculptures. Whether the licensed symptom checkers are physicians or medical students, a number have gotten in on the game, sharing comical variants on the theme. Why is a shiny green apple obscuring René Magritte’s face in his surrealist self-portrait, The Son of Man? One doctor tweeted it’s a facial lesion that’s fungating \[becoming fungus-like.\] What’s going on with the Venus de Milo? The ancient Greek statue of the goddess suffers from “Acquired Absence of Upper Limb,” according to another medical pro. See some of the medical examination jokes below. > [](https://twitter.com/RudyFoppen/status/869615374349873156) > [](https://twitter.com/DrMcInnisDIT/status/869532499860475904) > [](https://twitter.com/MerrisAlden/status/869614717475618816) > [](https://twitter.com/J%5FPetitjean/status/869538104197120000) > [](https://twitter.com/concernecus/status/869539922926985218) > [](https://twitter.com/DrMcInnisDIT/status/869532407267045380) > [](https://twitter.com/LimeSmiles/status/869587251050754048) > [](https://twitter.com/M3bied/status/869583547975258113) > [](https://twitter.com/signaturedoc/status/869541993663344640) > [](https://twitter.com/oliver%5Fhulland/status/869569000677814272) > [](https://twitter.com/AndrewMMoon/status/869571297973477376) Doctors medicalize Art memes Photos ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/"},"headline":"Doctors Are Diagnosing Fine Art Masterpieces With #MedicalizeArt","datePublished":"2017-05-30T18:44:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:00.426Z","description":"Doctors diagnosing history's finest art is the latest funny meme spreading on social media.","url":"https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/","keywords":["Newsfeed","medicine","viral","Art","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4798277/doctors-medicalize-art/","name":"Doctors Are Diagnosing Fine Art Masterpieces With #MedicalizeArt"}}]}] ```