As it always happens, when something works all of a sudden 3252345 similar projects appear at the same time (even if they’ve been there for ages), and so it happens with artfinder.
You’ve probably read when we wrote about smarthistory project last month, and Google’s art project a week before, and as if 2 websites weren’t enough for art geeks (and professionals) here’s another way of sharing and discovering your digital art collections.
With a similar proposal to big G’s art project, artfinder proposes dedicated work pages with information about the artist, the museum and similar works (well, they can’t match the gigapixel thingy though).
Even though Google will eventually make projects like this obsolete (artfinder themselves are looking for partners too…museums, libraries & galleries), the people behind artfinder have already managed to create a site with hundreds of thousands of paintings from artists, galleries, museums and collections around the world.
Their “magic” tour may not be that magic or overwhelming but the idea of this massive art database & learning center is here to stay. Now what’s Google’s next move within art?
