Artists have revisited, reinterpreted, and in more recent terminology, “remixed” earlier artist’s work for as long as there has been art. Happily, this trend is alive and well, and new immersive 360°/3D/VR technologies are being used to revisit and add new dimensions, literally, to classic art masterpieces.
Here’s a link to an earlier post where I showed how artists experimented with allowing viewers to experience entering van Gogh’s Starry Night.
The latest example of this type of thing to cross my screen is this YouTube 360° video from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium explicating Bruegel’s A fall with the Rebel Angels.
Watch the video below in 360° on YouTube here!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (YouTube Channel)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Official Website)
Great stuff, and it is in good company. There is a growing list of examples of famous works being reinterpreted in creative new ways. For example, last year the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (FL) held an exhibit entitled Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination.
That exhibit featured an experience entitled Dreams of Dalí: A Virtual Reality Experience that allowed visitors to use a VR headset to step into Dali’s painting Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus.” Here is a video and article about the VR experience.
CNET (YouTube Channel)
CNET (Facebook Page)
Explore a Salvador Dalí Masterpiece in Virtual Reality (Lulu Chang, Digital Trends)
This video is a preview of just the Dreams of Dalí VR experience.
Goodby Silverstein (YouTube Channel)
Goodby Silverstein (Official Website)
Finally, and most importantly, here is the 360° video of Dreams of Dalí.
Watch the video below in 360° on YouTube here!
The Dalí Museum (YouTube Channel)
The Dalí Museum (Official Website)
While it is probably going too far to say that “remixing art” using various three-dimensional techniques is a “killer app” for new immersive 360°/3D/VR technologies, it is at least an interesting trend to celebrate.
Finally, here’s my own little fun 360° experiment with “walk-in-art” that I made as part of a series of Toy Worlds for Cosma. Click on paintings to walk into them!
You can also explore it on Kuula.
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