Friday 16 January 2009

Ultra High Definition Prado Museum

The possibility of watching masterpieces by Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Tiziano, Rembrandt, Rubens... like if we where in the studio of those artists and as close to the work as they have been is something really interesting.

The only way of understanding art is to put ourselves in the place of the artist that has create the work, to be in his shoes. Well, digital technology has just done it possible. The only thing is that the news made it impossible today to reach the museum site. Yes, digital queueing. Even technology cannot avoid the fact that there are millions of people interested in the same things at the same time.

This article in The Guardian speculates on whether it is even better than the real thing.


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