This article touched on some very important things my art teacher stressed in high school. She would go on for ages about how different it was to look at an enormous painting in real life versus on the internet. For a while while I was in high school I always found that strange because I thought "well I know what paint looks like. It's not that hard to imagine what it looks like in person." Then I found the Google Art Project which shows these beautiful closeups of paintings where you can see everything down to the canvas fibers like you're looking through a magnifying glass and I began to understand that there's so much more texture and color happening that we don't get to see from an image.
Experiencing artwork is important in understanding what the artist meant for the viewer to feel. Looking at something not in it's physical space is like playing the game Telephone and getting secondhand information. This is especially important in relation to this project where we have to enter the space of the piece. A lot of great information to think about.
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