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Nearly 1,000 Paintings/Drawings By Vincent Van Gogh Now Digitized, Released Online (openculture.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Open Culture: Every artist explores dimensions of space and place, orienting themselves and their works in the world, and orienting their audiences. Then there are artists like Vincent van Gogh, who make space and place a primary subject. [...] The opportunity to see all of Van Gogh's bedroom paintings in one place may have passed us by for now -- an exhibit in Chicago brought them together in 2016. But we can see the original bedroom at the yellow house in Arles in a virtual space, along with almost 1,000 more Van Gogh paintings and drawings, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam's site. The digitized collection showcases a vast amount of Van Gogh's work -- including not only landscapes, but also his many portraits, self-portraits, drawings, city scenes, and still-lifes.
The Van Gogh Museum houses the largest collection of the artist's work in the world. On their website you can read essays about his life and work, plan a visit, or shop at the online store. But most importantly, you can experience the stunning breadth of his art through your screen -- no replacement for the physical spaces of galleries, but a worthy means nonetheless of communing with Van Gogh's vision.
The Van Gogh Museum houses the largest collection of the artist's work in the world. On their website you can read essays about his life and work, plan a visit, or shop at the online store. But most importantly, you can experience the stunning breadth of his art through your screen -- no replacement for the physical spaces of galleries, but a worthy means nonetheless of communing with Van Gogh's vision.
Is that a YouTube star?
Living in the Netherlands I've been at the Van Gogh museum a couple times. Just like any museum visit, enjoyable little outings with family, looking at the art and ddiscussing, well, often the art and stuff around it, sometimes entirely different topics.
Some painters produce positively 3d work, like some of Rietveld's works have definite height differences in them, done in wood. Others do the same thing in blobs of paint. Van Gogh, not so much, but the work isn't quite entirely flat either. Meaning that just putting a digitiser in front and measuring hue for every pixel isn't enough. And that's just the straight cold physical measurement part of it. A good artist produces work with a certain je ne sais quoi that can be very noticeable in its absence when dealing with a reproduction.
So, good work digitising this stuff, actually, but it is no substitute for the real thing, because it cannot be.
Torrent?
This one is pretty bad ass.
What did you say? I cut my ear off. I mean, methinks this is the wrong story you replied to.
use of the internet. Art and culture.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I wonder if this would be a sensible dataset to train an AI in creating van gogh style pictures?
I didn't see a license on the webpage. Are those images in the public domain or does the museum claim copyright on the scans?
He dead yanose!
it is no substitute for the real thing
+5 insightful for playing captain obvious to the straw man
so tell us all what the straw man said that got you so riled up
Some painters produce positively 3d work, like some of Rietveld's works have definite height differences in them, done in wood. Others do the same thing in blobs of paint....So, good work digitising this stuff, actually, but it is no substitute for the real thing, because it cannot be.
I've also been to the Van Gogh museum a few times, as well as seen his works quite a few other times in other places...
I don't think it's impossible to recreate the experience digitally.
What is needed is a really high resolution scan - but not just an image scan, a micrometer level 3D scan of the surface of a painting, then also the very high resolution scan from multiple angles so you could properly texture the 3D model.
To view, you would someday have a super high resolution VR headset, where as you moved back and forth specular highlights would approximate seeing the work in person.
Or right now, you could use an augmented reality app on a phone to "move" back and forth as you view the work. I think that probably would still be substandard although closer than juts looking at a flat image.
In the future future you could have a projected image on a wall with a face scanner that again would alter various highlights based on your position in relation to the work.
Stuff like Vermeer is maybe trickier since he has layers of different colors to bring kind of a glow to the light. but even that layering I think could be captured and recreated digitally via ray-tracing techniques.
In many ways the experience could be truly better than most people ever will have - not just from the standpoint of being able to visit, but even if you CAN visit some works like the Girl with the Perl Earring, they can be so mobbed you cannot truly get close enough to really enjoy the work.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This copying will mean he has no incentive to make any new aret. Just like The Beatles, Elvis or Disney. Please think of the artist.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
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