An art gallery removing classical portraits to replace them with contemporary celebrity selfies.
This cartoon is about contemporary celebrity culture, and its possible impact on art galleries and museums.
In the cartoon the portraits of historically important figures are being removed in order to make way for selfies of social media celebrities of the Instagram generation.
Part of the concept behind the cartoon is the potential debasement of culture due to commercial pressures in order to attract a new audience, on the basis that larger audiences attract more funding or income for art establishments.
Drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art059
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
