[HN Gopher] Thousands of Pablo Picasso's works in a new online a...
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       Thousands of Pablo Picasso's works in a new online archive
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 129 points
       Date   : 2024-06-29 17:39 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | tdalaa wrote:
       | Just awesome!
        
       | ajdude wrote:
       | Wonder how much work it would be to download it all
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Would you like a tar or zip?
        
         | skripp wrote:
         | Extremely easy.
         | 
         | But the resolution of the images are absolutely horrible...
        
       | brettermeier wrote:
       | Does someone know where to find the photos of his art on the
       | archive? (https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/) I can't find it
       | there...
        
         | lostlogin wrote:
         | If I spoke French, this might be easier. I wouldn't be
         | surprised if there was a translation built in, but I can't find
         | it.
        
           | magicalhippo wrote:
           | Firefox's translation function, which is on-device[1], worked
           | well for me.
           | 
           | You can explore the collection here[2] it seems.
           | 
           | [1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-
           | US/firefox/features/translate/
           | 
           | [2]: https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/auteur/91977?f
           | ield...
        
             | egeozcan wrote:
             | When I manually edited the url,
             | 
             | https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/auteur/91977?fiel
             | d...
             | 
             | worked for me. The URL otherwise doesn't get updated
             | correctly.
        
             | brettermeier wrote:
             | Thank you for the link!
        
           | ghostly_s wrote:
           | There is a language toggle button in the bottom right corner,
           | but at least on my mobile device it is entirely obscured by
           | the cookie disclosure button. And worse, the search seems
           | entirely broken if you switch the site to English- I got no
           | results searching eg. for everything in the "Painting"
           | category.
        
         | rasengan wrote:
         | Try the explorer [1] where you will come across great and
         | truthful works like Massacre in Korea [2].
         | 
         | [1] https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer
         | 
         | [2] https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/massacre-en-
         | coree-...
        
       | surfingdino wrote:
       | "draw my art teacher in the style of Picasso's green period"
        
       | chrisstu wrote:
       | Sorry to be that guy, but this site is terrible to navigate as a
       | non-French speaker. I'm not sure it would be that great as a
       | French speaker. I've seen online archives from other Museums that
       | do a far better job of making their exhibits more accessible.
        
         | _ache_ wrote:
         | As a French guy. It mostly works for French speakers.
         | 
         | It's developed by an under-financed public service. Also, as a
         | client, they are artists with no knowledge of accessibility and
         | no clear view of what they need.
        
           | spookie wrote:
           | I would'be hoped for spanish at least. Given who the author
           | was. I understand the circumstances are a bit meh, but still,
           | it's a museum.
        
         | coldcode wrote:
         | The ENG button on the bottom left only seems to translate basic
         | boilerplate, not any description or other content. Browsers do
         | a decent job of translation.
         | 
         | But the only thing you can do is search for stuff, there is no
         | way to browse at all that is obvious to me. I prefer looking at
         | Google Arts & Culture which is often well designed and
         | photographed.
         | 
         | I am sure some poorly paid contractor built this site.
        
       | Timshel wrote:
       | Honestly the image are absolute crap. You'll probably find better
       | using image search ...
       | 
       | Like: https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/figure-mp1990-16
       | vs https://www.museedegrenoble.fr/oeuvre/43/1922-figure.htm
        
         | thomasahle wrote:
         | Or if you want more saturation:
         | https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Painting-Interior-Paintings-...
        
       | PaulWaldman wrote:
       | Interesting this post appears in the same week as Paramount
       | pulling the content of much of their archived cable TV content.
       | The internet giveth and the internet taketh away.
        
       | ohyes wrote:
       | Good, finally we can scrape these to feed into an engine to make
       | soulless versions of Picasso
        
         | jcims wrote:
         | I was just thinking about that, and wondering when we're going
         | to start seeing art galleries that collect your phone on the
         | way in and display stuff that's never been photographed.
        
       | veltas wrote:
       | I'm sick of Picasso and modern art, but I have to admit he was a
       | genius.
        
       | white_monstor wrote:
       | after mentioning this to my optometrist, he recommended
       | tropicamide solution in order to fully hone in on the guernica
        
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