Solving the Problem of Seeing and Finding

I was just using the new facial recognition software in I-Photo, and while it is kind of a kick to see who the computer thinks is in a photo, it is not very accurate. A  little kid could do a much better job of figuring out who or even what is being shown. Computer scientists are working madly on how to create a computer image search engine that will be a lot closer to what we humans do so effortlessly. 

Check out this article; it will be great for more than art research if they can make it work: Seeking a Better Way to Find Web Images

Faker!

Interesting article in the New York Times about art that has been identified as a forgery reappearing on the market after having been resold as an authentic work.  What should be done with fakes? Indelible markings? Destruction? Let them be? What do you think? Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/arts/design/murky-laws-give-fake-artworks-a-future-as-real-ones.html?smid=pl-share

Art and Science, Better Together

 Oh celestial blue, half of humans name you as their favorite color. This is a great article about the very nature of blue. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/with-new-findings-scientists-are-captivated-by-the-color-blue.html?smid=pl-share

Art and Neuroscience

A fascinating article about perception and how the brain "sees" art.by Elizabeth Landau at CNN.  http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/health/art-brain-mind/index.html?hpt=he_c1

Beyond Google Image Search

Welcome to the 2012-23 academic year! Here are some of my favorite resources for art images. If you have a useful site that I have missed or need help with a special project, let me know at 

ann.silver@centre.edu

 

ARTstor, around a million and a half images, with global coverage at http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html#1

MDID, our local image database

at https://slide-library.centre.edu/

Oxford Art On-Line, a great reference source

at http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber

Flickr Creative Commons

 at http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Creative Commons 

at http://search.creativecommons.org/

Smarthistory, a really interesting resource 

at http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

AITC (Academic Images for College Teaching) 

at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict

Perseus, images of the Classical world

at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

New York Public Library Digital Gallery 

at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Europeana, 1500 European institutions share a site

at http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Google Art Project, super sized images 

at http://www.googleartproject.com/

Metropolitan Museum 

at http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections

Scholars Resource, funding is available to purchase images 
at http://www.scholarsresource.com/

ARTstor Notice--if you have any trouble...

ARTstor

Our Technology Team is pushing out a patch to the ARTstor Digital Library this morning. You may experience display issues after, try clearing browser cache to fix it.

ARTstor Troubleshooting - Artstor Help

 

http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/ARTstor_Troubleshooting#Clear_your_browser_cache

R.I.P. Thomas Kinkade

This painter enjoyed huge commercial success and got no respect from the art world.  What do you think about his mass-marketed works?

Thomas Kinkade

Fantastic Resource!

The National Gallery of Art has added open image access! More than 20,000 images are available in a generous 3000 pixel size! Hurray!

https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html

Ghent Altarpiece in Breathtaking Detail

THE GHENT ALTARPIECE IN 100 BILLION PIXELS

Unprecedented Imaging Project Supported by the Getty Foundation Reveals Master Work in Minute Detail—Online

Be prepared to stop whatever you are doing as you examine this master work in ways never before possible. Spectacular!!

http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/

All Mona Lisa, All the Time

Earliest known copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa found at Spain's Prado Museum
A black background was cleaned off two years ago and the painting was x-rayed. Conservators believe an apprentice of Leonardo's painted it at the same time the Mona Lisa herself was made.

Happy New Year and a New Old Controversy

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin and Child With Saint Anne” is currently undergoing restoration at the Louvre, and like so many restoration stories, not everyone is in agreement about the right course of action. Check out the full article to learn more.