Excellent App
This app is wonderful. Anything you’re interested in, you can spend hours finding out more & more about it. Places you’ve never seen before, you can see them here. I never imagined I would learn so much from this app. The games are fun too, and a good way to get involved with the subject. I hope this app continues to exist forever, and that it continues getting updates. This app is a good way to spend your time.
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Great concept but many issues
Potentially a very useful app let down by many issues.
1. Ignores murals which are key for many top artists like Giotto or Michelangelo.
2 Can’t search the artist by name.
3 Artwork should be sorted by importance, Van Gogh should show starry night, starry knight on the Rhone, sunflowers etcetra first instead of the key artworks being scattered among hundreds of paintings. Same for Botticelli and many others.
4 No sense of scale which is key, the Spring of Botticelli seems very small and insignificant while it’s a large artwork.
5 Top artwork like Monna Lisa or The Wave should be highlighted and easier to find.
6 plenty of inaccuracies like the main Van Gogh sunflowers is at the National Gallery.
Overall it could be an amazing tool for art lovers and students but it needs plenty of improvement to be useful.
1. Ignores murals which are key for many top artists like Giotto or Michelangelo.
2 Can’t search the artist by name.
3 Artwork should be sorted by importance, Van Gogh should show starry night, starry knight on the Rhone, sunflowers etcetra first instead of the key artworks being scattered among hundreds of paintings. Same for Botticelli and many others.
4 No sense of scale which is key, the Spring of Botticelli seems very small and insignificant while it’s a large artwork.
5 Top artwork like Monna Lisa or The Wave should be highlighted and easier to find.
6 plenty of inaccuracies like the main Van Gogh sunflowers is at the National Gallery.
Overall it could be an amazing tool for art lovers and students but it needs plenty of improvement to be useful.
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Best app in existence
I was stunned by the vastness of this app —it could be called Humanity or the World. It’s certainly not limited to art. You can go on 3D virtual visits not just to every museum in existence but to important sites- Machu Piccu, Barcelona, Stonehenge, you get the drift. For a history & archaeology buff, it is tops. You can spend hours wandering around in here . There’s fun stuff too - it will find artworks with people that resemble you or give you artworks with your favorite color predominent. Even if math is your thing, there’s plenty to keep you busy. Learn about perspective in innovative ways. See similarities in artworks and crafts from disparate cultures, sometimes hundreds of years apart-and don’t forget symbols. Maybe the meaning of mankind is in here somewhere. This is Google at it’s absolute best.
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Lots of fun and very interesting!
I’ve had so much fun playing all the games on this app! It provides me hours of entertainment. I’ve also learnt a lot about art, and this app has helped me discover so many artists that I would have never heard of otherwise.
Excellent content but clumsy navigation
Lots and lots of really high-quality pictures of artwork with great resolution so you can really zoom up close and see detail; this is cool particularly with paintings because you can see the brush strokes and detail. But the problem is this is it’s clumsy to get around it. if you press the back button while viewing art you are in never Ever land. And there’s lots of duplicates. But the pictures are really fantastic so go with that
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Incredible free app
This is an amazing free resource to get up close and explore the finest artworks in the world. I am an amateur artist and use this app every day for inspiration. Thank you Google!
Great for accessing art
I’m an artist and I can like my favourite paintings, search for others that are recommended to me and study and be inspired by them.
I use this and with m children, particularly when there was an interactive painting of Kandinsky.
I use this and with m children, particularly when there was an interactive painting of Kandinsky.
Good App but Technical Issues are Annoying
There’s a wide plethora of artwork just waiting to be found in this app and I’m happy Google is paving the way for people to connect with that.
The interactive stories are great and I love the feature that allows you to find artwork similar to the ones you favorite over time.
That being said, I am seeing an extremely annoying technical issue that prevents you from scrolling anything past the games section.
This is unfortunate because this pretty much limits my experience in the app in half. Not only that, my favorite aspect of the app (that which allows you to find artwork based on your favorites) is *past* the games section where the issue arises.
It’s a great app for art and art history lovers but this “problem occurred, reloading page” issue is frustrating and brings my rating down a couple of pegs.
The interactive stories are great and I love the feature that allows you to find artwork similar to the ones you favorite over time.
That being said, I am seeing an extremely annoying technical issue that prevents you from scrolling anything past the games section.
This is unfortunate because this pretty much limits my experience in the app in half. Not only that, my favorite aspect of the app (that which allows you to find artwork based on your favorites) is *past* the games section where the issue arises.
It’s a great app for art and art history lovers but this “problem occurred, reloading page” issue is frustrating and brings my rating down a couple of pegs.
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No, the selfies don’t always work
To selfie or not to selfie is a legal issue. Does Google want to deal with the necessary disclosures about facial identification in your state or is it easier to just not allow the function in your area? I’ve read you can tell the App Store your location is different then it is but it’s on you to figure it out. Sorry. I didn’t think I’d need it. I’d like to choose photos from my camera roll for some features, especially pets, especially my dear departed ones. I’m sure I’ll figure something out but I’d rather have it be easy.
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Generally really great, but has problems
Besides missing art by certain artists
And the complete lack of certain types of art
Like illustration for example
The biggest problem that I've dealt is definitely the resolution / the quality of the pictures of the art
With every painting a look at, the picture is always a little grainy / a low a quality image, unless i zoom into it, then the image suddenly jumps in detail and quality,
so i know they have a high quality version available somehow, but i can only see it when I'm zoomed in / unable to look at the full painting
Its really annoying, and I've seen other art apps that don't have this problem, even if their image quality takes a second to load
Please fix it!!
Other than that stuff, great app 👏👏👌
And the complete lack of certain types of art
Like illustration for example
The biggest problem that I've dealt is definitely the resolution / the quality of the pictures of the art
With every painting a look at, the picture is always a little grainy / a low a quality image, unless i zoom into it, then the image suddenly jumps in detail and quality,
so i know they have a high quality version available somehow, but i can only see it when I'm zoomed in / unable to look at the full painting
Its really annoying, and I've seen other art apps that don't have this problem, even if their image quality takes a second to load
Please fix it!!
Other than that stuff, great app 👏👏👌
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