The new search engine Giphy, which launched earlier this month, promises to let visitors search among the best animated GIFs the internet has to offer, which is a bold claim by any measure — especially in light of the file format’s many previous cross-pollinations with art history. While its cat GIF bonafides are indisputable (see above), we set out to discover its best animated art images, and came up with these eight masterpieces.

On Kawara date painting GIF:

Famous portrait face-morph GIF:

Pablo Picasso bull evolution GIF:

Neon sculpture GIF:

Glitchy Andy Warhol Campbell’s soup GIF:

Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” GIF:

Banksy rat GIF:

M.C. Escher-escalator FAIL mashup GIF:

— Benjamin Sutton

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