Obituary

Rembrandt's militia portrait became the template for every chaotic group dynamic — the one posing, the one mid-sentence, the one who showed up late and still made the front. It died when everyone in it was photoshopped into a zoom call and nobody turned their camera on.

Portrait: Rembrandt · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2014

Died

2019

Cause of death

Group-photo envy

Last sighting

A 'squad' caption, 2019

Resting place

Section F, Row 1

Category

art