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Yeah, one of the very amazing things about going to an art museum is that paintings are often incredibly different in "real life" than they are in reproductions
by snogglethorpe 13y ago
Yeah, one of the very amazing things about going to an art museum is that paintings are often incredibly different in "real life" than they are in reproductions (pictures on the net, postcards, posters, etc, even high-quality art books).
It's not just the colors, which are very often completely mutilated by reproductions—and sometimes that's inevitable as many paints react to light in a way that's simply not possible to reproduce using simple colors and standard inks, from differences in gloss, to metallic pigments, to paints with embedded "stuff", to paints that are oddly "intense" (due to fluorescence?)—but also the textures of paintings, which can range from dead flat to subtle but noticeable strokes, to painting where the paint is literally 10+cm thick, and sculpted, often with fabric and other materials incorporated.
Seeing a painting on wikipedia is not really seeing it. This isn't mere pedantry either—in many cases it's an utterly different experience.
- jrs99 13y agoI don't think it takes a trip to the gallery to conclude that the paintings aren't all that great. After all, the paintings themselves are based on photographs: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/08/kieron_williamson_8-year-old_p.html http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/08/kieron_willi...
- foobarbazqux 13y agoIt's only uncommon to paint exclusively from photographs.
- Someone 13y agoThey are working on that: you can buy a 3D printed replica of a van Gogh: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130722-3d-replicas-of-van-gogh-masterpieces.html http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130722-3d-replicas-of-van-go... (haven't seen one, but at $25,000 a piece, they better be good)
- snogglethorpe 13y agoThat's cool... adding texture helps ... but the paint composition itself is equally or more important. I suppose they could go as far as trying to replicate that too, but the cynic in me says probably not...