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Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Post by julienreszka »

throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

That's exactly their point. Even a digital collection doesn't replace the experience of visiting the museum.

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Post by irrational »

throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

I will never go to Paris, so this is the only way I could ever experience it.

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Post by misterkrabs »

throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

I think I kind of understand the Truth that you're getting at - from a similar point of view, aren't artists usually particular about the medium that their art is presented in? because the medium can cause the work of art to have a different effect on the audience. [1]

In any case, it's certainly no substitute for the real thing (but I'm sure everyone kind of understands that).

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-art/The-mediu...

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Post by Jerry2 »

In the past year, quite a few collections went online. I remember seeing that Van Gogh collection from Dutch museums was digitized and released recently. Does anyone know if there's a list of various online art collections? I'd really like to go through some.

Edit: Van Gogh collection: https://vangoghworldwide.org

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Post by ramraj07 »

throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

You literally satisfy the definition of a Luddite to a T, perhaps not in the most negative way, but some way nonetheless.

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Post by cambalache »

throwawaysea wrote: post #5

I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

> Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space.

This is true in theory, in practice you will meet arrogant and unhelpful museum guides, tons upon tons of people not respecting all the basic rules (no flash, be relatively quite, etc) and a labyrinthine place which can give you anxiety if you are just visiting one day and want to see as much as possible. I went there like 8 years ago in very low season I cannot imagine how it would be today in a post-covid summer with all the instagramers and tik-tokers. So in the meantime I would enjoy all those marvels a my leisure pace in my computer. There are million of things we cannot experience directly and they are still worthwhile to see in original or imagined illustrations, from celestial bodies to ancient civilizations.

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Post by heckerhut »

vaillant wrote: post #12

Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.

I know you’re joking but lots of people still struggle with the reason why NFTs exist, including Apple’s unofficial PR department John Gruber. But it seems he finally understood it now thanks to this article: https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi...

[0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/03/26/rusher-nfts

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