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发帖数: 4796 | 1 This App Matches Your Face to a Museum Portrait and Your Results May Vary
Educational and humbling!
It's hard to take seriously all the wailing and teeth-gnashing of the
baby boomers when they lament that millennials are a generation doomed by
selfies. That's partly because we see our old relatives posting their
own terrible driver-seat selfies all the time, but also because self
portraits have been a staple of artistic expression for centuries. And the
Google Arts & Culture app is a good reminder of that.
So, here's the gimmick: you take a photo, and the app finds artwork with
subjects that, in theory, match the face in it. Strangely, it's all at
once ridiculous and addictive, but what's more important is that it'
s shareable.
There are some big takeaways here, like how, for example, you shouldn't
peg your self-worth to how attractive your historical portrait doppelganger
is. Because—the second big lesson—beauty standards change, different
artistic aesthetics get re-prioritized, and a lot of these faces look goofy
as hell when they're completely divorced from the rest of the painting.
It's like how everyone in Renoir paintings looks like a particularly
unsexy potato.
Not all users have been able to make the app function properly. It's
primarily a resource for learning about art and museums, and many people on
social media are reporting that they can't even access this selfie
feature.
And it's also inspired more unfounded pearl-clutching about how this is
a generation drowning in self-obsession.
Despite what haters would have you believe, there's no wrong way to
enjoy art. Just don't take it personally if you get paired with a
Hieronymus Bosch nightmare-scape. |
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