Portraitplay.ch provides background Information about “Switzerland: Land of Art” and “Basel: Culture Unlimited” and invites you to engage with The Phillips Collection’s exhibition Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, The Staechelin and Im Obersteg Collections, on view October 10, 2015–January 10, 2016.
With the app Portrait Play (available for iPhone), magically transform a selfie into your personal masterpiece in the style of renowned painters featured in the exhibition. Watch your selfie take on the bright colors and vivid brush strokes of paintings reminiscent of Edouard Manet’s Head of a Women (1870), Ferdinand Hodler’s Portrait of Regina (1911), Alexej von Jawlensky’s Self-Portrait (1911), or March Chagall’s Self-Portrait (1914).
This website and Portrait Play are brought to you by the Embassy of Switzerland and the City of Basel, where the arts are highly valued. Concept, design and technology are provided by appamics. To find out more about Switzerland and its arts scene, visit our portals Switzerland, Land of Art and Basel—Culture Unlimited. You will be surprised to discover how many of Switzerland’s artistic and architectural treasures can be found in New York, Miami, and San Francisco.