National and international art galleries use some of their most famous works to joke about how we portray ourselves on different social networks.
You can try, but it doesn't seem likely that using one of your Tinder photos on LinkedIn will get you your new job. Or maybe it will, that's up to each person. But there seem to be some unwritten rules by which we all know exactly what kind of snapshot goes on each of our social networks, as if we compartmentalize the information we provide on all of them.
Your selfie can look great on LinkedIn or even Facebook if you want your family to be proud of you, but if you see it on someone on Tinder you swipe left. And a photo of lots of friends with liquid joy in their hands and to which you have applied more filters than a customs office is a great option for Instagram, but it doesn't seem very smart to upload it to the social network to find a job (drinking gives a slightly bad image) or to Tinder (those who see it will wonder who you are out of all those people). I think this is understandable.
And as reality imitates fiction and vice versa and art imitates life and vice versa, museums around the world have joined in by placing their own works that best matched the social network in each box in the four categories, with the “usual” being a portrait of someone from the nobility on LinkedIn, a family scene or with friends on Facebook, a character in a bucolic setting on Instagram and something spicier or showing pinkish body parts on Tinder.
In Spain, there are several museums and foundations that have joined the meme, and some of them have done so quite successfully. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has done so with paintings by Sebastiano Del Piombo Schad , Picasso and Lichtenstein , but there are also Puppy, the dog made of flowers (a work by Jeff Koons) in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and Gustavo Bacarisas, the Gibraltarian painter, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville.
On the international level, the list is endless: from the greatest champion of impressionist painting, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum in New York or the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which has focused its four images on the artist Egon Schiele.
Here is a list of national and international museums that have joined this viral challenge, among many others, that are very entertaining:
National Museums
- Pompidou Centre in Malaga. See
- Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. See
- Columbus House. See
- Cadiz Museum. See
- Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. See
International Museums:
- Crocker Art Museum. See
- Cleveland Art Museum. See
- McNay Art Museum. See
- Edinburgh Museum. See
- Fred Jones JR Museum Art. See
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