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Also, for some reason this art piece looks better live than on paper or on screen. It may have something to do with its size and how eye handles it live.

by trm42 6y ago

ethanbond 6y ago
In my experience, the gap between the original and any sort of reproduction grows as the craftsmanship goes up. For most artists who are known as great masters (such as Rembrandt), it really does only take seeing a few in person to be like, “yep, s/he is clearly among the best.”
ghaff 6y ago
There is an impact of very large paintings that you definitely lose in a photograph. It's not that such paintings are only good because they're big. But viewing a painting that fills a wall is just a different experience from looking at even a much smaller version of the same scene. This is probably especially true with large figure groupings like The Night Watch.
- lisper 6y ago
  The visceral sensation of seeing something big can only be produced by a live viewing: think of seeing the grand canyon live vs seeing a photo of it, even a very high quality one.
  - jcl 6y ago
    Surprisingly, your visual perception of something can actually be affected by how big you think its image is, even if it is not live. The "vertical-horizontal illusion" is an optical illusion where a vertical line appears to be longer than a horizontal line of the same length. It turns out that this illusion is more pronounced in larger images, even if the image has the same content. In fact, some researchers used monocular VR to show that your perception of horizontal vs. vertical scale can be altered just by making you believe that the image you are viewing is scaled to a TV vs. a movie theater screen -- even when you are constrained to view exactly the same pixels in both cases. I have a pet theory that this may be why film stars thought that TV cameras "added ten pounds"... Viewing a face at smaller-than-life size could make you perceive it as a little more squat than it really is. (I learned this from a talk by Dennis Proffitt... might be from this paywalled article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p3053 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p3053 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%E2%80%93horizontal_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%E2%80%93horizontal_il...
Groxx 6y ago
this is probably a good detail in favor of VR museums :)

Also, for some reason this art piece looks better live than on paper or on screen. It may have something to do with its size and how eye handles it live.

by trm42 6y ago

Also, for some reason this art piece looks better live than on paper or on screen. It may have something to do with its size and how eye handles it live.

ethanbond 6y ago

In my experience, the gap between the original and any sort of reproduction grows as the craftsmanship goes up. For most artists who are known as great masters (such as Rembrandt), it really does only take seeing a few in person to be like, “yep, s/he is clearly among the best.”

ghaff 6y ago

There is an impact of very large paintings that you definitely lose in a photograph. It's not that such paintings are only good because they're big. But viewing a painting that fills a wall is just a different experience from looking at even a much smaller version of the same scene. This is probably especially true with large figure groupings like The Night Watch.

lisper 6y ago
The visceral sensation of seeing something big can only be produced by a live viewing: think of seeing the grand canyon live vs seeing a photo of it, even a very high quality one.
- jcl 6y ago
  Surprisingly, your visual perception of something can actually be affected by how big you think its image is, even if it is not live. The "vertical-horizontal illusion" is an optical illusion where a vertical line appears to be longer than a horizontal line of the same length. It turns out that this illusion is more pronounced in larger images, even if the image has the same content. In fact, some researchers used monocular VR to show that your perception of horizontal vs. vertical scale can be altered just by making you believe that the image you are viewing is scaled to a TV vs. a movie theater screen -- even when you are constrained to view exactly the same pixels in both cases. I have a pet theory that this may be why film stars thought that TV cameras "added ten pounds"... Viewing a face at smaller-than-life size could make you perceive it as a little more squat than it really is. (I learned this from a talk by Dennis Proffitt... might be from this paywalled article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p3053 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p3053 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%E2%80%93horizontal_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%E2%80%93horizontal_il...

Groxx 6y ago

this is probably a good detail in favor of VR museums :)