Significant update of 'Arts & Culture' application that enables museums and historic sites to be searched, including Google's ability to compare works in museums around the world by color or age.

Google is a gallery application that collects works of art from all over the worldArts & amp; Culture"Published in 2015, Arts & amp; Culture has been greatly updated," Listing works of specific writers for each era "," Displaying works on color scale "" About general items such as shoes The change made by the era will be obvious at the same time. "Since the function making full use of Google's technology was added, I actually tried using it.

Official Google Blog: The new Google Arts & Culture, on exhibit now
https://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2016/07/the-new-google-arts-culture-on-exhibit.html

Applications can be installed from the following.

Google Arts & amp; Culture - Android application on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cultural

Google Arts & Culture on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/arts-culture/id1050970557

This time I tried using the iOS application. First, tap "Get".


Tap "Install" ......


Tap "Open".


When you start the application, the home screen looks like this. In the default state, there is an art tab in the "art" "history" "historical sites" tab, and as you scroll vertically, you can see a variety of art-related articles in English.


As I scrolled, I discovered the tag "IN DETAIL (to the detail)" and the "Van Gogh's bedroom" titled "A painting within a painting" I will.


When I opened the page, what was displayed is a painting drawn roughly with oil paint.


When pinch out, the whole view of 'Van Gogh's bedroom' was displayed. The picture zoomed in the painting at the back of the bed was displayed first. Thus, with Google Arts & Culture you can see the details of paintings that you can not normally see by expanding. This enlargement function is very convenient because the works actually exhibited in museums are included in the case or you have to look away from a certain distance.


When you scroll the screen, you can see detailed information ......


I was able to see the interior of the museum where paintings are actually displayed, with crisp access to Google Street View.


In addition, there is an indication "all artists" on the home screen, and it is possible to compare the works for each writer and see it. Works of famous authors are scattered around the world and it is difficult to compare real things, so it seems to be said that this is also a unique feature of the application. Tap "All artists" ......


The writer 's name was lined with Zurari.


For example, the personal page of Katsushika Hokusai is like this.


There are 530 items registered in the application, and it is possible to rearrange the works by age when the work was drawn or by color scale.


First, I will arrange it by age. Early works may look like the following, there may also be a preservation state, but the color slightly looks a little thin.


Looking at the works from 1825 to 1833, it is obvious that the color is becoming brilliant.


Furthermore, sorting on the color scale looks like this.


The work of the bright "blue" is drawn by sea, Fuji, flower, necktie.


There was not much image, but there were also many works that "Red" stands outstanding.


If you collect "Black" works, it will be astringent.


Next, return to the home screen and tap the thumbnail titled "Gold since 3500 BCE (gold from 3,500 BC)" tag "EXPLORE (exploration)" ... ...


I was able to see works using gold for each era. From 3500 BC to the first year of the era there are simple forms of decorations and swords ... ...


As time progresses from the first year to 1150, you can see the making becomes finer.


When furthering the era, the decoration changed to a delicate and elegant one.


In addition, changes of item by age can also be done from the search of the home screen. Tap the magnifying glass icon.


When you search "shoes", the following screen will be displayed, so tap the image of the shoes.


Then, as with works by each artist, images were able to be displayed by age and color scale.


The shoes from 1000 BC to 1800 BC are like this.


In addition, images of shoes from 1960 to 2000 are. I can understand the history of shoes well from the image.


However, depending on the word to be searched, images may not be viewable by age or color scale. When searching with "Dress", 8032 items were listed, but sorting was not possible.


Also, from the "history" of the home screen, you can read on the same day as using the application, what happened in the past with English articles.


Tap "Historic site" ......


You can read articles about various places around the world and have virtual experiences as if you actually went to the place on Google Street View etc. Tap "Great Barrier Reef" ...


You can swim with a sea turtle.


In addition, I was able to experience as if walking in the case of the Austrian National Library, which is also known as the world's most beautiful library.


In addition, smartphoneDefaultCardboard viewerIf set to the orchestra during the performanceExperience as if walking around the stage is also possible.