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Artwork dimensions
In physical museums, artworks are arranged on walls to look great to guests. Here, artworks are placed on wall views anywhere we want. Tiny artworks are next to big ones. Who cares? After all, this museum is just a dream.
When we look at artworks in the views, we see words and numbers beneath them. Let's call them legends. They start with "(above:" and have a bunch of words and numbers after that. The first words are the name of the artist. After that is the title of the artwork, then date of creation. Following that, there's other stuff. Details we'll leave to other museum folks. By the way, if we want to learn more about a painting, we can copy the name of the artist and the title of the painting, then use a search engine to get more details.
Frames add a lot to the overall look of an actual artwork. We hardly ever see frames here. The focus is only on paintings rather than what surrounds them. Ok, that's stretching the truth a bit. The sources of images usually don't include frames except for once in a great while. Or they're trimed them out when they don't look right. For instance, the following painting has a great frame. it's missing here.
(above: Thomas Pollock Anshutz, A Rose, 1907, oil on canvas, 57.9 x 43.8 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1993. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
The Met has a good story about A Rose on it's website. Same goes for many other paintings featured in this imaginary museum.
Couches
Physical museums have rooms with couches. We won't need couches on this tour. After all, we are gliding about, not walking. No tired feet. No way.
BTW: Who is that guy in the painting. What an ego!
(above: AgnosticPreachersKid, A man sits on a couch while visiting the National Gallery of Art's West Building, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., 2010, photo. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)
Now let's get back to our tour
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