New app lets you explore every tiny detail
As of this day you are invited to explore SMK highlights at an unprecedented level of detail. We’ve been working with the good people of Madpixel [link no longer active] to squeeze every little pixel of 11 SMK masterworks into the free SMK Second Canvas app.
In all modesty we believe the result is a highly pleasant experience, which elegantly — and without bells or whistles — lets you navigate the art and carefully selected interpretative material (what normal people might refer to as “text and audio”). From your favorite touch-screen and (since use isn’t tied to the physical museum) from wherever you want.
Johan Lundbye, Zealand Landscape. Open Country in North Zealand, 1842
We’ve used the best photos available (for L.A. Ring’s Whitewashing the Old House and for Carl Bloch’s In a Roman Osteria that is very hi-res indeed) so individual brushstrokes are visible if you just pinch away.
The app is available for iOS and Android [link no longer active] (Danish and English text) so please do give it a spin!
Also, if you’re in Copenhagen — we have a small launch event on 25 April.
We’re launching with the following artworks:
- A Funeral by Anna Ancher (1859–1935)
- Bella and Hanna by C.W. Eckersberg (1783–1853)
- Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone Niche by Ambrosius Bosschaerts the Elder (1573–1621)
- Christ as the Suffering Redeemer by Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)
- In a Roman Osteria by Carl Bloch (1834–1890)
- Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Melancholy by Lucas Cranach the Elder ( -1553)
- The Artist’s Wife by L.A.Ring (1854–1933)
- The Ferry Boat to Antwerp by Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678)
- Whitewashing the Old House by L.A.Ring (1854–1933)
- Zealand Landscape by Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818–1848)
SMK Open is supported by Nordea-fonden.