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 “jiffs,” according to Wilhite) as a creative format, including online innovators like Ryder Ripps, Nicolas Sassoon, and Jeremiah Johnson, 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 Van Gogh in bed and Mondrian-themed Pong, to Banksy’s 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

 

2. Stereoscopic Starry Night

3. Rotating Mona Lisa

4. Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s Cinemagraphs

5. Duchamp / Nauman Fountain Mash-Up

6. Marina Abramovic Deals With It

7. Pong-Themed Mondrian, or Pong-drian

8. Spinning Hirst Butterflies

9. Salvador Dali: The “Artist” is Present 

10. Trippy Guernica

11. Picasso Paints

12. Salvador Dali’s Surreal Elephant Walk

13. Magritte's Paratroopers

14. Matisse Drawing Comes Alive

15. Banksy’s Cops Make Out

16. Thomas Kinkade’s Burbling Brook

17. Hennessy Youngman Speaks Out

18. Andy Warhol’s GIF-pire

19. Andy Warhol on TV

20. Ai Weiwei Goes Crazy

21. Ai Weiwei’s Studio Gets Naked

22. Diane Arbus’s Sword Swallower

23. Cyprien Gaillard’s Beer Pyramid Gets Consumed

24. Creepy Bill Viola

25. Blingee Sol Lewitt