Comment Comment by ethbr1 > One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it.Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected: - The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) - Guernica (Picasso) - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí) Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough.Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucency in screen/page-presented imaging.And so much of the European painting mastery in the 1400s+ is the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a desired effect. parent ethbr1 2 years ago
Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected:
Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough.Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucency in screen/page-presented imaging.
And so much of the European painting mastery in the 1400s+ is the manipulation of non-opaque paint to create a desired effect.