Fine art to download (FTP? IRC?)
Loki
Any known IRC servers with binaries? Web sites? FTP? I love to look at
great art by many artists, and am always frustrated at having to buy
entire books to look at just one painting, and with small
reproductions where I can't see any detail.
I know a ton of art gets posted on the binaries groups, but I'm
wondering if there's a more efficient way to find and download it
(since stuff doesn't seem to stick around for long in binary
newsgroups, and is painfully slow to get with my modem on a bad line).
I know I'm not the only one who'd love to use and cpontribute to
something like that, but no one I've talked to so far seems to know
anything like it!
Alternately, does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to find
and view usenet pics? The commercial web-based archivers seem to all
cost $$$, but they provide thumbs without dowloading the whole image.
And less expensive suggestions?
Thanks for your help!
-Loki
Chris
You can browse through their collection freely, and for the price of one art
book you can buy the collection on a CD. Another online resource is
http://www.abcgallery.com/ .
If you are interested in van Gogh, check out http://www.vangoghgallery.com ,
which is superb. and is also available on CD for a reasonable price.
Hope that's a start.
Chris
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Aunt Cee Pants
lokisk...@hotmail.com says...
>I know a ton of art gets posted on the binaries groups, but I'm
>wondering if there's a more efficient way to find and download it
>(since stuff doesn't seem to stick around for long in binary
>newsgroups, and is painfully slow to get with my modem on a bad line).
With a dial-up modem you are limited no
matter what the source of the image is.
So when you ask for a "more efficient way...
to download" - the answer is to upgrade
your internet connection to DSL, cable or
satellite dish, the latter being the best
choice, IMO.
As for obtaining images, the web is the
best resource with a ton of web sites featuring
various galleries full of art works. All you
need to do to save any image on the web to your
computer is "right click" on the image while
pointing to it with the mouse, and choose the
"save picture" option (assuming you use Windows).
Here is one of my favorite artchives:
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site_reg.htm
Loki
with a modem does not know how to save images :)
I'm a network admin, however, and believe me, I wish I could upgrade.
DSL=too far from CO, cable="it'll be ready in about two weeks"
(promised by Comcast every two weeks or so for the past year),
wireless=trees in the way between me and every single station,
satellite=0.1kps upload, no explanation given.
But enough about my tragic life :)
Artchive.com is a great idea, but all the images I found are very
small, with horrible JPEG compression. Many of the reproductions made
me cringe. The binaries groups often get much better quality.
Abcarchive.com is better, but has basically the same problem. The size
of the images is a little better, but they are still far too small and
the JPEG kills them. You can get an idea of what the picture is
supposed to be of, but I think paintings are different from TV shows
in that way -- a general idea of what it looks like is not even a poor
substitute for the real thing.
Does anyone have any better ideas or sources? How about even
non-classical good art? Deviantart.com has many images in good sizes
that would even print well, but the selection is not yet very big, and
it's only non-established artists posting.
Some groups, like raster.org, release good quality art by their
members, but I've had trouble finding many I like...
Any help, ideas of where else to ask, etc. would be much appreciated,
along with usenet binary suggestions (which I also asked for in the
first post)
Thanks again!
Aunt Cee Pants
>Any help, ideas of where else to ask, etc. would be much appreciated,
>along with usenet binary suggestions (which I also asked for in the
>first post)
From what you've written so far, seems to me
you'll be satisfied with nothing less than
getting yourself to the various major museums
that house the kind of art work you are
interested in. REPRODUCTIONS - be they on
a computer monitor or in book form - have the
obvious limitation of being REPRODUCTIONS.
You'll never find a REPRODUCTION that does
justice to the original, IMO! There are some
fancy-dancy poster art type images that try
to replicate the brushwork - or claim to -
but even so they are still REPRODUCTIONS.
Aunt Cee Pants
As someone who endured six years of art
education at the university level, I have
to mention the failure of MOST reproductive
sources in conveying the reality of famous
art works. For example: it's typical to
have slides of famous works of art projected
while the lecturer (professor) discusses
the art work being shown. Does anyone
really believe that the actual art work
is anywhere close to the size of the projected
image? Same goes for looking at reproductions
in books - or on a computer monitor. Does
anyone actually believe that all flat art work
is 600 X 800 pixels in size?
Loki
Of course, I enjoy looking at my favorite works of art in the
original, but I can't really afford to traipse around the world
finding all the museums that carry them! :)
I just think that great quality stuff gets posted to usenet all the
time, whereas the web archives I've seen have extremely poor quality.
All I want is a place to download grouped (especially by artist!)
archives of what is posted daily to the binaries groups.
Peter Gorman
pete
>
> Is there any way to find art (especially collections) for download?
> Any known IRC servers with binaries? Web sites? FTP? I love to look at
> great art by many artists, and am always frustrated at having to buy
> entire books to look at just one painting, and with small
> reproductions where I can't see any detail.
>
> I know a ton of art gets posted on the binaries groups, but I'm
> wondering if there's a more efficient way to find and download it
> (since stuff doesn't seem to stick around for long in binary
> newsgroups, and is painfully slow to get with my modem on a bad
> line).
What are the names of these binary newsgroups ?
I made a jpeg, of Grace Albee's
Second Baptist - editioned state (1949)
wood engraving 212mm x 150mm; ed.15
It has tons of detail, more than what you could see
on the original without a lens.
The jpeg is 3.7 Megabyte, 8 bit Greyscale, 2413 x 3368.
I'd like to upload it to somewhere.
--
pete