‘The original selfie?’: Cardiff borrows Van Gogh self-portrait for selfie show

Musée d’Orsay in Paris lends painting in exchange for a Renoir for Welsh Art of the Selfie exhibitionIt is possible the artist may not have wholly approved of one of his searching, intense self-portraits being likened to an image grabbed on a mobile phone.But a Van Gogh oil painting has been unveiled as the centrepiece of an exhibition in Cardiff that poses the question: “Is a self-portrait the original selfie?” Continue reading...