A Daily Calendar of Impressionist Paintings -- open the ArtC app and see a new painting every day of the year!
View the major highlights of Impressionism, including Monet’s water lilies and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” and discover new favorites, like Twatchman’s waterfalls and Sorolla’s beach scenes. This app is an excellent resource to easily build your knowledge and enjoyment of art.
Artists include the big names like Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Mary Cassatt as well as lesser known painters like Lovis Corinth, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Joaquin Sorolla. This collection covers the full spectrum of Impressionists, from early proponents like Manet to the late Impressionists like Cezanne.
-- Features a new Impressionist painting every day. Paintings are grouped by artist, and then ordered to showcase the wide variety of style and subject matter in the Impressionist genre.
-- Swipe forward and backward to scroll through the full collection of images.
-- Rotate your iPhone or iPod to fit the orientation of the painting.
-- Tap the screen and find information about each painting, including a link to the artist’s entry in Wikipedia.
--A full directory organized alphabetically by the artist’s name and painting’s title allows for easy access of 366 Impressionist paintings. Note that this order is different from the order the paintings are presented in the calendar.
-- All image are part of the app, so you can enjoy ArtC even when you are away from the Internet (with the exception of the artist Wikipedia links).
Viewing these works of art as a collection provides a remarkable sense of the time period—fantastic hats, bustling boulevards, racous cafes and theaters, along with the gorgeous morning light of Provence, and the simple beauty of rivers and fields.
*The nude figure has been a major theme in art history, and no survey of Impressionism would be complete without paintings featuring the nude. None of the paintings in this app are sexually explicit.*
All images are from the Wikimedia Commons and have been optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A portion of the profits from this app will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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