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biesnecker ◴[] No.30066616[source]
Seeing Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum a decade or so ago totally changed my view of seeing things in a museum vs. seeing them online. I'm a child of the internet and had this view that seeing it on my screen was good enough, but wow is Night Watch incredible up close and in person. Overwhelming, almost. A totally different experience.

That said, this image is amazing, and lets you see a lot more detail than you can easily manage at the museum.

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NamTaf ◴[] No.30069177[source]
I noticed this most vividly when seeing Van Gogh's Sunflowers (the 4th, from the National Gallery in London). A high-res scan such as on Wikipedia [1] does no justice to just how textured the painting is. He's clearly applied quite thick strokes and, under proper lighting, the texture really pops in a way that screens simply cannot reproduce. It brings an entirely new dimension (pun intended) to the painting and really changes the whole expeirence.

Proper, museum/gallery lighting really transforms art in a way that even prosumer screens simply cannot replicate, because you can move around the piece and the interplay of light against it does so much.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflowers_(Van_Gogh_series)

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mabub24 ◴[] No.30071342[source]
Many of Van Gogh's, when seen in person, are almost more like relief sculptures because of the incredible depth of his strokes. I loved going right to the sides of the frames and looking across the paintings to see how each little valley in his strokes caught the light and cast tiny shadows. I think it's also what adds a lot to the kaleidoscopic feel of his works, alongside his color palettes and stroke work; the extra dimension makes his paintings vibrate with restrained energy in interplay with the surrounding light.
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1. derbOac ◴[] No.30092727[source]
My daughter and I went to an art supply store in December and we were surprised at the variety of paint bases. I had no idea. Many of them would be mistaken for sculptural material, almost like play doh or some like that, if you didn't know what they were. I had no idea.