7 best digital collections of modern art
Forming / / December 19, 2019
Beautiful, affordable to anyone who has a computer or smart phone.
It is believed that to look at a work of art need to live, as it allows to survive the deeper aesthetic experience. However, this is not always possible. Modern technologies allow to receive the special experience of initiation to the art - from anywhere in the world. Learn digital collection can be even standing in traffic or sitting in line at the post office. And absolutely for free.
1. Museum of Modern Art
One of the most important museums of modern art in the world, founded under the auspices of the Rockefeller family. It was here that are stored "Starry Night" by Van Gogh, "The Dance" by Matisse and "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali. Even if in the near future, you are not going to Manhattan, get acquainted with the exposition is possible in the online mode.
IN electronic catalog the main collection contains more than 65,000 pictures. The earliest of these date from the middle of the XIX century, there are also contemporary works. The digital archive shows - materials
temporary exhibitionsThat once rattled the entire art world. For example, shortly after the opening of the museum held a landmark Post-Impressionists exhibitionAnd then there loudly declared himself Andy Warhol.2. Metropolitan Museum of Art
The fourth most visited art museum in the world (the first - the Louvre). Although founded in 1929 Museum of Modern Art Metropolitan seriously pressed, he continues to acquire advanced product.
On the museum site It is not only artists of the classical era, but also the famous modernist, surrealist, conceptualist and representatives of many other currents. Here you can find the work Pablo Picasso, Calvadora Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth. All the works are provided with English-language description with exposure history and links to publications.
3. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon Guggenheim was a renowned philanthropist and collector, create a fund to support contemporary art. In particular, he encouraged abstract painting, so honorable exhibits of the museum began painting by Kandinsky and Mondrian. IN online collection collected more than 1700 works, digitization and still is.
The site is available on the filter painter, Date, direction, and under each product has a small tale the description and specifications. And no musty museum spirit. The collection of contemporary works constantly fall. Here's something entirely new - the work of the Hong Kong artist Wong Ping, established in 2018.
4. Tate
Gallery brings together as many as four museums: the old, which has existed since the XIX century, modern, and two regional, Liverpool and Cornwall. Together, they hold together the world's largest collection of British art from 1500 to the present day. Some of this wealth of digitized and posted on the Web.
IN Online archive including rare exhibits that had previously not been widely available - sketches, letters, photographs, newspaper clippings related to the life and work of the artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Here you can see, for example, sketches Felicia Barun or try to read letters of Francis Bacon.
5. Google Arts & Culture
Google's main cultural project - a huge catalog that allows you to search for works of art that are kept in various museums and private collections in the world. Of course, there are not only modern pictures. You may want to look at, say, Chinese or ancient arts and crafts treasures the times of Marie Antoinette.
A flexible system of filters allows you to customize your search to the era of interest or direction. For example, you can select cubism, constructionism or color field painting. Or consult the collections and to study, say, history street art.
6. Museum "Garage"
On Museum "Garage" website collected archives of letters, photographs and slides relating to the work of contemporary Russian artists. As noted on the website of the museum, "the main task of the collection - the creation of an academic framework that enables to comprehend the experience of contemporary Russian art in an international context."
7. Institute of Russian realist art
IN library Institute of Russian realist art presents more than 500 works of Russian and Soviet artists. The basis of the fund went to the private collection of businessman Alexey Ananiev, which became the basis for the museum and exhibition complex.
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