From self portraits to street art 1 000 museums at your fingertips
From self portraits to street art 1 000 museums at your fingertips ABOUT ZENFONE - From self-portraits to street art: 1,000 museums at your fingertips , The history of art is global. Look at Van Gogh�a Dutchman who spent much of his life in France, and was inspired not only by his contemporaries but also by Japanese artists like Hiroshige. But until recently, the act of enjoying art and culture was limited by geography. Unless you could visit a museum in person, it would be hard for you to appreciate a work, brushstroke by brushstroke. And to fully understand the legacy of someone like Van Gogh, you would have to go from Amsterdam to Chicago to New York to Tokyo to discover and marvel at all of his influences, works and successors. Left: Van Gogh�s self-portrait (Chicago), right: a street art re-interpretation (Amsterdam) But with the Google Cultural Institute, it�s all just a few clicks away. Five years ago, the first 17 museums brought online a few hundred artworks so that anyone in ...