ArtArc

The everyday person's guide to the story of art - told as one interactive arc. ArtArc begins half a million years ago with a zigzag carved on a shell, and ends with pictures conjured from words. Twelve chapters, sixty-six moments, each one a story you can read in a minute. Then the app asks you to do more than scroll: * Play Style Detective, an offline quiz that asks you to identify eras, artworks, and turning points from bundled images and clues. * Build your Art Passport as you visit chapters, read milestones, find artwork details, and improve your Detective score. * Use Compare Mode to place ideas side by side: Durer's copy panic beside Stable Diffusion, the Sarony photography case beside AI copyright rulings, Duchamp beside the state-fair AI art argument. * Tap selected artworks for guided hotspots on symbols, composition, technique, and context. * Reveal Details wallpapers: explore an artwork's hotspots and its museum-grade close-up - cropped from open-access masterpieces at wallpaper resolution - appears in your gallery. Along the way: • The Ice Age galleries of Chauvet and Lascaux - and the 1880 scandal when experts refused to believe cave art was real • Egypt's painters of eternity, Greece's first signed artworks, Rome's painted illusions • The Renaissance inventions: perspective, oil paint, and the first mass-media copy panic • Photography's arrival - when critics called the camera "art's most mortal enemy" and courts had to rule on whether a machine's picture could be art at all • Impressionism (named after an insult), Van Gogh (who sold almost nothing), Duchamp's urinal • The machine age: the 1965 plotter exhibitions, the program that painted for forty years, and the night two duelling neural networks changed image-making forever • The prompt era: DeepDream's hallucinations, the $432,500 AI portrait, the astronaut riding a horse, the state-fair prize that started a global argument - and the court rulings deciding, once again, what counts as art Every image in the app comes from public-domain and museum open-access collections - including landmark AI works that US rulings placed in the public domain - and every one is fully credited on its detail page. Designed to be felt as much as read: era-themed colours wash the screen as you travel, milestones light up along the timeline's spine, and imagery drifts gently as you scroll. A persistent native menu lets you move between Timeline, Art Passport, Compare, Style Detective and Settings. Settings brings your Plus status, language, help and privacy together. At home on iPhone and iPad, with portrait and landscape layouts on iPad. The full story is free: every chapter, every milestone, every attribution. ArtArc Plus (optional) unlocks unlimited Style Detective rounds, every hotspot pack and Compare pair, and saving Details wallpapers to Photos - with new art packs added through the year. Available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in Settings. No account. No ads. No tracking. The bundled stories, images and quizzes work offline. Purchases, restore, subscription management and external links need an internet connection. Explore in English, Spanish or French; change language at any time in Settings. Made for the curious. No art degree required. Privacy Policy: https://butterflybombarby.au/artarc/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/