Today is Sunday and I'm inviting you to visit a museum. It would be better for you to go to a real one, but instead, let's jump to the website of the Tate Modern gallery in London.
More specifically, we are going to look at some paintings by Matisse and Picasso. But these web pages are not ordinary ones. They have been enhanced for "visually impaired people."
The project, i-Map, complements the Tate's current exhibition, "Matisse Picasso," by focusing on three pairs of works by the artists that explore their innovations, influences and personal motivations.
In many museums, blind visitors are denied the right to touch because they might damage fragile, centuries-old masterpieces.
With text, image enhancement, animation and raised images, i-Map will serve partially sighted and blind people with a general interest in art, as well as art teachers and their visually impaired students.
I-Map uses animation to "simplify, enlarge and pull out key elements of an artwork so that they can be studied in isolation before being replaced within the whole," said Caro Howell, Tate Modern's curator of special projects.
Now that you know the concept behind the exhibit, here are some links to Picasso's Nude Woman in a Red Armchair (1932) and to Matisse's The Moroccans (1916).
Source: Kendra Mayfield, Wired News, Aug. 9, 2002
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