Still Bored at Home? Getty and Google Have Teamed Up on a New Filter That Translates Your Locked-Down Life Into Famous Works of Art

Have you ever wondered what your breakfast
would look like if it was painted by Caravaggio? Now, there’s an
app for that.

Google’s ever-evolving Arts & Culture app has a new feature that
recreates your surroundings in the style of a famous artwork. You
can now overlay Vincent van Gogh’s starry night onto the view from
your balcony from lockdown, or capture yourself in the style of
Frida Kahlo’s famous self-portrait.

The new filter feature, called Art Transfer, draws from paintings,
decorative arts, antiquities, and drawings from the J. Paul
Getty Trust’s collections. Users simply upload a
picture into the app and then choose from featured artworks,
which includes Monet’s Irises, Cena de circo by
Marc Chagall, or Basquiat’s Man from Naples, and
watch their photo take on the work’s colors, shapes,
and artistic style. Images can be
completely overlaid with an artwork or specific areas cut out to
make more of a collage.

Art has become a major hobby during life in quarantine. The
recent Getty challenge saw people all over the world recreate famous works of
art with hilarious and highly satisfying results.

“Art is a great unifier, a reminder we are all in this
together,” Lisa Lapin, vice president of communications at the
Getty, told Hyperallergic.
“When Google raised the concept of Art Transfer, we loved the idea
of leveraging Google’s artificial intelligence technology to give
people even more tools to play with. They can have fun exploring
works from Getty collections, learning the different approaches and
styles of major artists, and then get hands-on in applying those
approaches to their own personal creations.”

This is not the first time Google and the Getty have
collaborated. In 2011, the California institution made a project
with Google Goggles’s mobile app to give access to online
resources as visitors perused the collection.

Additional artworks available to transfer from Getty’s
collections include Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s Portrait of
Leonilla and Jacques-Louis David’s The Farewell of
Telemachus and Eucharis. If users want to go further back in
time, there is a fascinating selection of antiquities from
Romano-Egyptian times to the early 100s A.D., including a
Greek gemstone featuring a grasshopper engraving that dates to
425-400 BC.

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