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App Of The Day – BrushStroke In Association with The National Gallery (and it’s free for the weekend)
I have known about this collaboration for a few weeks and am very excited to reveal it today. Unfortunately there wasn’t time to add TheAppWhisperer into this collaboration, but the National Gallery and the team behind Brushstroke (Code Organa), did try very hard. To celebrate The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture, The National Gallery have teamed up with Brushstroke app to offer you a free app download (usually $/£3.99) and a chance to enter their photography competition. You’re all invited to follow @national_gallery on Instagram and use the Brushstroke app to experiment with filters, and share an image featuring architecture near you, inspired by the exhibition. ‘Monet & Architecture’…
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Manod: The Nation’s Treasure Caves – The National Gallery
5 March – 8 April 2018, Annenberg Court, Admission free “Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island”. (Winston Churchill, 1940) In 2018, the National Gallery will recall a remarkable chapter in its history when, during the Second World War, its paintings were removed for safekeeping to a disused slate mine in Snowdonia. Twenty-four archival photographs documenting the dispersal of paintings to Manod near the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales, together with five photographs of the quarry as it appears today by Robin Friend, will be displayed in the Annenberg Court Central to the exhibition is a 30 minute film, Winged Bull…
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Our Daily App Digest – March 13, 2012
National Gallery, London HD Evolution Apps has announced National Gallery, London HD 1.0 for iOS, their lifestyle app that gives the user access to an outstanding, searchable collection of 1,520 great paintings from the collection of the National Gallery in London. Representing the works of more than 500 world-renowned artists, it includes masterpieces from the 14th through the 20th centuries. Art lovers may browse the immense collection by Century (thumbnail mosaic of every work) or by Artist (alphabetical listing). Users may download HD versions of any work, or receive ultra high-resolution files of any painting via email, both at no additional cost. Artists whose work appears in the collection include:…
