Frida Kahlo in blue satin blouse, 1939Photography Nickolas Muray, © Nickolas Muray Photo ArchivesArt & Photography / NewsArt & Photography / NewsTurn yourself into a Frida Kahlo painting with Google’s new selfie filterThe new art filter app from Google Arts and Culture allows you to turn your selfies into masterpiecesShareLink copied ✔️October 9, 2020October 9, 2020TextPatrick Benjamin Ever fancied yourself a surrealist masterpiece or a priceless Golden Age oil painting? Have you ever thought the contours of your face lend themselves particularly well to the brushstrokes of Dutch post-impressionist master Vincent Van Gogh? Well you’re in luck because now you can place yourself within some of the most famous artworks in history thanks to the new Google Arts and Culture (GAC) selfie filter. The GAC app features famous art from Frida Kahlo, Johannes Vermeer, and Van Gogh, among others, and transposes aspects of their works directly onto the user’s face in selfies or videos, almost transforming them into the work itself. Works include Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, a Kahlo self-portrait, and an ancient Egyptian necklace owned by the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. The app also provides information about each piece as it’s selected: “Vermeer was a master of ‘chiarosuco’, the creation of contrast between lightness and darkness”, the caption under Pearl Earring says and, according to the app, the spider monkey found in the Kahlo portrait is said to symbolise passion. Try the filter for yourself here. GoogleEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThese playfully erotic zines capture Williamsburg’s 00s art scene‘This show is like a world’: Collier Schorr on her major new exhibitionThe rise of EsDeeKid in 5 tracksLa dolce vita: These photos explore Cortina beyond the Olympic hypeDazed Club handpicked this curator for a new show in London FILAFrom track to concrete: Fila reimagines sportswear in the city for AW26Catherine Opie on ‘perverts’, Heated Rivalry and photographing neo-NazisCandid photos capture life inside a women’s prison in MexicoLife lessons from the legendary photographer Larry SultanThese intimate photos show the multiplicity of ‘Dykes’The most loved photo stories from February 2026The best art and photography shows to see in March 2026Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy