The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online

Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by ConceptJunkie on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:43AM (#18433222)

I don't think this kind of resource is going to decrease attendance at art museums. People who want to go are still going to go, but while I live near Washington D.C., and have been to the National Gallery of Art many times, there are hundreds or thousands of museums and art galleries in cities I will most likely never travel to.

I think it's reasonable to consider these digital resources as a supplement to, rather than a replacement of, visiting the gallery in person.

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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by neuromantik8086 on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:39PM (#18434578)

I mean, part of the appeal of the Louvre at least isn't just that you can see the art in the physical world, but that you're practically bathed in it. This sense of being overwhelmed and the serendipity factor in discovering new works constituted a lot of the appeal when I used to visit there. You could go into there once every weekend for a year and never have the same experience twice.

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