The geocodedArt blog

Art en Site: Place and Painting

2011-10-30T14:55:00.000-07:00

A new appreciation of place and of painting, by examining the painting in the place.

Using mobile devices to access maps of masterpiece landscape (cityscape) paintings, the details of the painting can be appreciated while on the site that the artist studied and painted with such care. Elements of the painting take on new meaning when a modern day equivalent are seen: a passerby or mode of transportation, flora and fauna. The landmark structures become a frame, or a rain gauge that hold the residue of culture.

Examples are shown from Greenwich ("The Bellot Memorial", by George Chambers), Amsterdam ("The Bend in the Herengracht in Amsterdam" by Gerrit Berckheyde), London ("View of Fish Street Hill from Gracechurch Street" by William Marlow), Utrecht ("View of Utrecht" by Johannes Bosboom), and the Hague ("View of the Mauritshuis in Den Haag" by van Hove).

Photo as Frames for Art

2011-05-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

A set of images created by overlaying masterpiece landscape (really cityscape) painintgs onto current photos of the scene.

This is the painitng by Jan van der Heyden "The Oude Kerk on the The Oude Delft in Delft", and a recent photo.

Below, images are compared of the painting by Vermeer of the "View of Delft" and a current photographic view.

Art en Site: Netherlands

2011-05-01T13:46:00.000-07:00

Using a mobile device and a map collection of the scenes of masterpiece paintings, to appreciate the site and the work together. This photo is a synthesis of the a current photo and the painting "The Golden Bend in the Herengract in Amsterdam" by Gerritt Berckheyde.

The sites of a collection of masterpiece landscape paintings can be found at this Map:

Art en Site: Netherlands

Google art to view high resolution images

2011-02-03T05:55:00.000-08:00

Google art is a collection of high resolution images from participating museums. There is also a feature to create and share personal collections. The attached link is to a collection of masterpiece cityscapes.

http://goo.gl/wlEnX

Art now and then: Flickr photo correlation

2010-12-08T15:52:00.000-08:00

A gallery of images that match current photo of sites to masterpiece cityscapes-landscape paintings.

Flickr gallery

New collection in google Earth: Rome

2010-12-01T15:51:00.000-08:00

A new collection of 25 masterpiece cityscapes is now loaded on google Earth; many have alignment to 3D building renderings.

Follow the link to the Earth forum and download the attached kmz file.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1322053#Post1322053

Art en Site: Greenwich

2010-07-28T13:01:00.001-07:00

Using mobile maps to see masterpiece art at the site it was painted.

A comparison of Canaletto's painting of Greenwich Hospital shows some discrepancy in perspective; perhaps the artist shared architect Wren's low opinion of the Queen's house. That building that is promienent at center rear, between the 2 domes, is hardly seen in the painting.

Locate this and other sites of paintings at this map:

Paintings on South Thames

More views of Greenwich Hospital, looking at George Chambers painting, Greenwich Hospital from the East

Geocoded Art on blackberry

2010-07-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

Take the painting to the place; with paintings loaded on mobile maps, you can examine the landscape masterpieces where they were painted.

In the picture are a copy of Chambers' painting "The Bellot Memorial at Greenwich Hospital"; and a photo of the scene today; and a photo of the image on the blackberry, provided by links from a mobile map.

High and low magnification images of the blackberry screen showing: the painting viewed en site, loaded from a marker on mobile maps; the phone screen as it looks in the map view, with markers showing locations of painting sites; and the screen as it looks when a marker is selected, with access to the attached painting had by choosing "Details".

Additional map led viewing of art en site in Borough, at St. George the Martyr church. Grimshaw painted this scene with the title "Blackman Street, London", as the south part of Borough High Street was known at that time.

The map-fed image allows the painting to be inspected on site and experience the current street scene to compare to that captured by the artist.

Low and high magnification views of the phone screen showing the map tools used to find the site and load the image. After selecting the marker for this map entry, clicking on "Details" loads the attached image of the painting.

Maps of location of paintings on south Thames available at:
Paintings on South Thames

GeoCoded Art on Your Mobile Phone

2010-05-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

Geocoded Art wins Wikitude World Cup! Voters picked fine art accessible en site as some of the best content for location-based Web services on mobile phones.

wikitude results

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/05/geocoded-art-on-your-mobile-phone.html
Nice write-up of the Wikitude entry at unofficial google map blog

geocoded Art is mobile

2010-05-18T14:51:00.000-07:00

Take the painting to the place: access geocoded landscape paintings where you are through the new "World" on Wikitude

http://www.wikitude.org/overlays-2

Vote for the Geocoded Art "world"

Wikitude contest

Paintings of Delft

2010-04-22T08:05:00.001-07:00

Many artists have painted the old city before Vermeer's masterpiece.

See geocoded collection at:
http://www.geocodedart.com/search.php?inputImgName=delft

Paintings of Amsterdam in google Earth

2010-04-09T16:22:00.000-07:00

This link takes you the Earth forum posting; click on the .kmz file to see the paintings zoomed on to their locations.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1321971#Post1321971

Fly-through paintings of UK castles

2010-03-16T05:49:00.000-07:00

Video fly-through of paintings of Rome

2010-03-15T07:08:00.000-07:00

2010-03-06T06:20:00.000-08:00

Fly-through the Netherlands to see sites of van der Heyden masterpiece landscapes

Fly-through sites painted by Monet

2010-03-04T13:09:00.000-08:00

geocodedArt takes you on a fly-through to sites in France depicted in Monet masterpiece landscape paintings.

3D tour of masterpiece landscape painting sites

2010-03-03T18:33:00.000-08:00

Video fly-through to visit sites painted by Bellotto
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