Great News for the Finnish Classical Art
Got just message from Facebook wall. Ateneum (National Gallery of Finland) pages for the Google Art Project have been published today. Google Art Project's ambition is to collect the best of the national treasures around the world and bring them alive to everyone in the world.What is specific for such a art lover than myself is that you can get closer to the paintings through the internet than in real galleries. You get the details of brush work and colours better from the high resolution images than from the real ones.
Today, Google Art Project have artwork from 230 different galleries.
Eero Järnefelt's Under the Yoke photographed with Google's Gigapixel technique. You can go even closer. Click the link below. |
Thank you for the Great Name, Our Ancestors!
Now, when pages opened in the internet we can congratulate our ancestors when they named our National Gallery as Ateneum. It's a bit odd name for the Finnish art museum and it refers to the Greek Goddes Pallas Athene, who was the Goddes for wisdom, kowledge and the Art of War.Now in the era of inernet this means that Ateneum will be one of the first galleries appearing in the list of the museums in the Google art project. Everyone, working with the sales portals in the internet - or application stores - know that the placement is crucial for the hits. It's the matter of the shelf placement.
As a result, Ateneum will always be one of the first art museums in the collection pages.
Ateneum Art Museum in the Google Art Project |
Collection
Google Art Project displays 55 pieces of work from Ateneum. Works are from the golden period of the Finnish Art and artists like Hugo Simberg, Axel Gallen-Gallela, Eero Järnefelt, Pekka Halonen and many others are presented. Also foreign art in the collection is in display, like Van Gogh's last work Street in Auvers-sur-Oise.One of the Eero Järnefelt's painting (Under the Yoke) is photographed with so called giga pixel method which makes it possible to get very close in to the details of the painting. That is very impressive indeed.
Simulacra
Of course, simulation or digital representation are not the same thing than seeing the art work in real life. Virtual art gallery is thus not a competitor with the real museums. The original is always the original. It's kind of artspotting. But the gigapixel technique by Google creates an add on to this idea of originality. I have now studied several gigapixel paintings and it is impressive to see how artists really put effort in to the smallest details - amost unseen to viewers.Enjoy the visit to the virtual Ateneum!
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