Obtain 60,000 Works of Artwork from the Nationwide Gallery, Together with Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & Extra

As a younger ama­teur painter and future artwork faculty dropout, I fre­quent­ly discovered myself hang-out­ed by the faces of two artists, that well-known­ly odd cou­ple from my favourite artwork his­to­ry novelization—and Kirk Dou­glas function and Iggy Pop tune—Lust for Life. Vin­cent van Gogh and Paul Gau­guin, above and beneath respec­tive­ly, the tor­ment­ed Dutch fanat­ic and burly French bully—how, I nonetheless received­der, may such a pair have ever co-exist­ed, how­ev­er briefly? How may such beau­ti­ful­ly skewed visions of life have exist­ed in any respect?

Van Gogh and Gauguin’s sev­er­al self-por­traits nonetheless encourage received­der. My youthful self had the lux­u­ry of see­ing these par­tic­u­lar two up shut and in per­son on the Nation­al Gallery of Artwork in Wash­ing­ton, DC: Van Gogh’s gaunt and pierc­ing vis­age, Gauguin’s sneer­ing self-par­o­dy.

Now, because of the received­ders of dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy, my outdated­er self, and yours, can view and down­load high-res­o­lu­tion pho­tos of each paint­ings, and over 60,000 extra from the museum’s huge maintain­ings, by NGA Photographs, “a repos­i­to­ry of dig­i­tal photographs of the col­lec­tions of the Nation­al Gallery of Artwork.”

There you’ll discover works by anoth­er obses­sive Dutch self-por­traitist, Rem­brandt van Rijn, equivalent to the luxurious 1659 paint­ing beneath. You’ll discover paint­ings from the heroes of the var­i­ous Renais­sances and French Impres­sion­ism, from transfer­ments mod­ern and colo­nial, pas­toral and concrete. The col­lec­tion is dizzy­ing, and a lover of artwork may eas­i­ly lose hours type­ing by it, sav­ing “open entry dig­i­tal photographs as much as 3000 pix­els every […] avail­ready freed from cost for down­load and use.” The pur­pose of NGA Photographs is “to facil­i­tate be taught­ing, enrich­ment, take pleasure in­ment, and explo­ration,” and there’s little doubt that it sat­is­fies all of these objectives after which some.

Browse the var­i­ous col­lec­tions, includ­ing one devot­ed to self-por­traits. Con­duct superior search­es, in case you have extra knowl­fringe of the Gallery’s many trea­sures. You’re the cura­tor! And the fortunate ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the Nation­al Gallery’s benef­i­cence. Whereas I can let you know from expe­ri­ence that it’s noth­ing like stand­ing nose to nose with these paint­ings of their in-real-life dimen­sions, tex­tures, strains, and colours—regardless of the throngs of dis­in­ter­est­ed vacationers—it’s a minimum of an in depth sec­ond. And for stu­dents and edu­ca­tors of the visu­al arts, NGA Photographs presents an oppor­tu­ni­ty like no oth­er to view and share nice artistic endeavors usually hid­den away from even the museum’s vis­i­tors. Enter the col­lec­tion right here.

Observe: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this publish appeared on our web site in 2014.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Down­load 1,600+ Pub­li­ca­tions from the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork: Books, Guides, Magazine­a­zines & Extra

The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork Places 490,000 Excessive-Res Photographs On-line & Makes Them Free to Use

The Louvre’s Complete Col­lec­tion Goes On-line: View and Down­load 480,00 Works of Artwork

The Get­ty Makes Close to­ly 88,000 Artwork Photographs Free to Use How­ev­er You Like

Down­load 100,000 Free Artwork Photographs in Excessive-Res­o­lu­tion from The Get­ty

Josh Jones is a author and musi­cian primarily based in Durham, NC.