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OK, but...
This app has serious potential, but it has a ways to go yet. I am a sculptor and a college prof.
My hope was to use this app in the classroom to reference the work of notable sculptors and their sculptures throughout the history of art. While I can find some of their names in your directory, the selection of images per sculptor is very limited, the images are not representative of their notable pieces and the image quality is frequently very poor.
As sculpture was the first art form, I would like to see the folks who designed this app try to greatly increase the database of Sculptors and their notable works!
Lastly, the organization for sculpture in the rooms is poor. You have a separate room for sculpture; but again, it is grossly incomplete. Missing sculptors from that room show up in the specific genre/period/style rooms making the research of specific artists confusing at best.
I want this to be a great and useful app! Please consider the above. I hope to see a more robust sculpture database here soon!Show lessSculptor Prof.
Great concept
Having all this art available to view at leisure is just great. I have visited some of these galleries and will visit more. This saves a lot of web searching with links to web info on the artist or painting. Being an Australian I was impressed with the Australian content but would like to see more. Hans Heysen or Fredrick McCubbin deserve a place.
Thanks for the app well worth the money.
Still enjoying this app but what I think is missing is the info tag that describes the painting as you find in the art galleries or is it there and I haven't found it.Show lessRoger Merritt
So soothing
I wasn't sure this app would be worth it, since all these works are available online. But the way everything is organized, and the way you can so naturally swipe between full screen works and zoom in and get more info as needed, is so wonderful. I just spent twenty minutes here in my comfy chair at Starbucks marveling at masterful works of the early Romantic period, and I found the experience more meaningful than walking around in a museum (which tends to bore me, honestly). I also love the fact that I can save the paintings to my photo roll and then set them as my wallpaper! Love this app. Highly recommended.Show lessSchwartzReports
Art Authority for the Ipad
This is the app that I always click on first to show off my new IPad. It's ideal for the format, because every painting fills the entire surface, be it vertical or horizontal. The quality is brilliant. Almost every major artist of the past is included, usually with their entire output. I'm looking forward to the likelihood that more 20th century artists will be added soon (they may already be there in the update that I've just downloaded but not yet transferred to the Ipad.
The captioning is succinct but adequate, and disappears quickly enough to not intrude on the enjoyment of the image. There are also links to Wikipedia entries. And the slide show works well, even allowing for music from the itunes collection. All-in-all, Art Authority appeals to my love of art and my love of collecting. I look forward to future enhancements, perhaps even a more advanced sorting capability.Show lessUnations
Love it!
woops, reinstalled and now seems to work. Great so far.1k2g77gfd
Good content and curation but ...
For an art app it is certainly not going to win any app design award.
Navigation is pretty clumsy, the lobby room looks weird; the default 'wall' looks cheap with that weird salmon colour. The overview/help section could benefit from a video tutorial, or be discarded altogether if navigation is intuitive enough. I thought the segregation of settings into in-app and iPad settings is unnecessary and not user friendly. Caption font and design are also a bit basic!
Content wise, no complaints except to say, more in-depth captions would be appreciated rather than a link to the artist's wiki.
Having said all that, I think this app is very valuable and has potential to be even greater, hence my long wish lists. For the sale price, definitely click buy!Show lessitadakimasu
Update needed
Needs an update for the ipad2 to make it faster and clean up the graphics.mrking.id
Great app
I really love this app. The only problem is that I wish it didn't use Wikipedia as it's main Information source. We all know any Joe Blow can go in and change the information in wiki. I wish its information came from scholarly sources. Away from that it's perfect and I love the feel of it making it me feel like I'm at a museum. I love that it tells you the location of the art, love that it makes me feel like an artist for loving art. Great art history resource. Only real negative is I don't know how to download more content. Still a great app. One wish, I wish the picture of Adele Bloch Bauer was a little more detailed. I've seen better depictions. Wish I could see the diamonds on her neck. It's my favorite art peace because of it's historical dilemma and involvement with the crummy Nazi Party. Maybe it's because it's now owned privately by her granddaughter I believe. Great app. Please fix this.Show lessRobert Bolanos
Not so good
Some links like timeline, individual artists etc.... Leave a black screen, doesn't appear to be trying to link to anything (no activity icon seen) !
Some good information available but having to shut down(power off) is frustrating when links don't respond. Disappointing!Reyart
UI sluggish, often unresponsive; desperately needs updating
This is basically a really bad viewer for art that is stored in a cloud somewhere, but not on your iPad. Even on wi-fi, it just hangs and hangs and hangs. For $10, I expect the art to be on my iPad. Check out Van Gogh HD and notice the difference. This is probably the most frustrating example of over-promising and under-delivering I've seen. And tapping info is a joke. It takes you to a general wikipedia article. Even works that have their own wikipedia articles don't link to them; just to a general article. It's lazy programming, and it's not on the flipping iPad! If they just wanted something to view art on the internet, fine. Price it at 99 cents, not $10 bucks. It's just a ripoff. I want it to be awesome, but it continually disappoints.Show lessJavaAddict
