Selfie as art at Saatchi gallery: from Rembrandt to a grinning macaque
by Mark Brown Arts correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#2HMA6)
Exhibition explores the history of the selfie and our changing relationship with this most everyday of art forms
It is a show that includes painstakingly executed self-portraits by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo; and rather more spontaneous selfie-portraits by Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise and a macaque monkey from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The images are being displayed together in London's Saatchi gallery and while curators are not assigning them any aesthetic equivalence, they do argue that there is a direct line from one to the other.
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