How about this for an icebreaker at your next networking session? The Google Arts & Culture app introduced a new selfie feature earlier this month that allows users to snap photos of themselves to find facial matches to acclaimed works of art. Business in Vancouver submitted photos of a cross-section of B.C.’s most notable names in business to uncover which paintings most resemble the movers and shakers in finance, real estate and technology.
Francesco Aquilini, managing director, Aquilini Investment Group:
Portrait of Bramante, by Pietro Paoletti
Janet Austin, CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver:
Portrait of Woman by Painter Paizel, by Jacob Merkelbach
Stewart Butterfield, CEO, Slack:
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris), by John Singleton Copley
Queenie Choo, CEO, SUCCESS:
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, Princesse, by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Lebrun
Darren Entwistle, CEO, Telus Corp. (TSX: T):
Self-Portrait, by Peligrí Clavé
Ian Gillespie, founder, Westbank Projects Corp.:
Philippe le Roy, Lord of Ravels, by Sir Anthony van Dyck
Ryan Holmes, CEO, Hootsuite:
Gustav Wied, by Valdemar Schønheyder Møller
B.C. Finance Minister Carole James:
Portrait of Alice Cardoso Pinheiro, by Ricardo Navarro Poves
Irene Lanzinger, president, BC Federation of Labour:
Detail from The Artist Himself and His Family, by Warnaar Horstink
Jimmy Pattison, CEO, the Jim Pattison Group:
The Painter and His Pug, by William Hogarth
Bob Rennie, owner, Rennie Group:
Sir Malcolm Sargent, by Gerald Festus Kelly
Ravi Saligram, CEO, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers:
Maximilian Reger, by Adoph Hacker
Robin Silvester, CEO, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority:
Marty McFly, by El Marian
Tamara Vrooman, CEO, Vancity:
Vittoria Colonna, by Jules Lefebvre
Chip Wilson, founder, Lululemon Athletica:
Portrait of Pieter Pietersz Hein, by Crispijn van de Passe (II)
