Last week in the Age's "Greenguide" I read about the recently launched Google Art Project. It is a fascinating resource for both art lovers and students. It features over a 1000 famous artworks online in extraordinary detail and the virtual walkthrough tool enables users to navigate more than 385 rooms in the galleries. Seventeen galleries are currently involved,including MoMA in NY,State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,Uffizi in Florence and the Tate in London.More galleries will come on board in coming months and there are Australian galleries expressing interest. There is also a digital art tool that offers a "Create an Artwork Collection",allowing people to save specific views and build their own personalised collection that can be shared. In the first week that the Google Art Project was launched,70,000 collections were created from more than 10 million visits to the site.I find that just gobsmacking!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Google Art Project
Last week in the Age's "Greenguide" I read about the recently launched Google Art Project. It is a fascinating resource for both art lovers and students. It features over a 1000 famous artworks online in extraordinary detail and the virtual walkthrough tool enables users to navigate more than 385 rooms in the galleries. Seventeen galleries are currently involved,including MoMA in NY,State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,Uffizi in Florence and the Tate in London.More galleries will come on board in coming months and there are Australian galleries expressing interest. There is also a digital art tool that offers a "Create an Artwork Collection",allowing people to save specific views and build their own personalised collection that can be shared. In the first week that the Google Art Project was launched,70,000 collections were created from more than 10 million visits to the site.I find that just gobsmacking!
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