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AGO joins the Google Art Project

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Toronto-based Art Gallery of Ontario has become the first Canadian museum to jump on board the Google Art Project!

Refresh my memory, what is the Google Art Project?
The Google Art Project allows access to art displays, collections and galleries over the internet using its Google Street View cameras. The internet giant has 17 museums on board, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and now the AGO!

The project allows internet users to search and view famous paintings, even zoom in on brush strokes of paintings that you may never get the chance to view in real life.

Cool, but what’s so special about the AGO?
Fifty-eight pieces of work from the AGO’s collection have been placed online so far, along with more information on the artists. Some of the works include:
– Daedalus and Icarus by Anthony von Dyck
– The West Wind by Tom Thomson
– Indian Church by Emily Carr

More work will be going up soon, but it will be determined on the online activity that will happen around the current collection.

For more info on the Google Art Project and to check out the online artwork, click here!

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