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DJ doppelgänger: 11 artistic lookalikes of your favourite selectors

Google's new app matches selfies to painted portraits from throughout art history...

Google's new Arts & Culture’s new app has been causing quite the stir across the web in the past few days. The app allows you to match your selfies with painted portraits from throughout history with startling accuracy using facial recognition software.

Of course, the app doesn’t limit users to just using their own selfies. How fun would it be to see who some of our favourite DJs resemble from throughout the course of art history? Pretty fun, as it happens.

Have you ever wondered what Ben Klock would look like as Van Gogh portrait? Or what Marcel Dettman would look like as a painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck? Peggy Gou as Wonderwoman? Well look no further. You can find 10 examples below courtesy of Telekom Electronic Beats, including appearances from the likes of Lena Willikens, Ricardo Villalobos, Jayda G and Aphex Twin as well as infamous Berghain doorman Sven Marquardt.