Make your drab photography appear to be a Van Gogh, Munch, Monet masterpiece
As the lockdown has put a dampener on everything, here’s a small something to amuse yourself. You can transform any old photography into an artistic masterpiece using Google’s new feature on it Arts and Culture app.
Using the Art Transfer option, you can click an image or use one from photos stored on your own device and create a bit of art out of it, exactly like that. You can select from a variety of styles, from the iconic Scream of Edvard Munch and Water Lillies by Claude Monet to the design of the self-portrait of Van Gogh or Frida Kahlo.
Picasso is conspicuously absent, but the pop surrealistic design of Okuda San Miguel’s painting of Spain’s vibrant life, whose geometric designs appear inspired in parts by Cubism, is probably the choices you can pick.
The colours and the shapes are a little limiting as it is single paintings that are used as the mention of transform your images, however the app offers you a peek into how art may become more universal than high-brow.
The Arts and Culture iphone app which has other features such as for example viewing art in its original size, museum tours and so on, also offers you a nugget of info on the artists whose styles you choose to transfigure your photographs with.
The Art Transfer feature introduced in an update on March 24 is actually not that new, although the present generation of users may well not have known its long-time predecessor, the Prisma app, which too produced aesthetically enhanced photographs that matched great artists’ styles.
