Google ‘Art Zoom’, Pop Musicians Give a Guided Tour of Ultra High Resolution Images of Iconic Works of Art

In the Google video series Art Zoom, songwriters and performers offer personal insights into iconic works of art capturing the finest detail of the high definition images using the Google Art Camera.

Each painting explored has been captured with Art Camera, which captures paintings in ultra-high resolution, “gigapixel” images, allowing you to discover paintings inch by inch.

Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers takes a detailed look into The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, performer Jarvis Cocker dives deep into La Gare Saint Lazare by Claude Monet and indie star Feist shares her thoughts about The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Art Zoom is a new video series that invites you on a guided tour of some of the world’s best-known masterpieces. Taking cues from ASMR, each video is narrated by a famous creative voice full of personal insight. …Each painting explored has been captured with Art Camera, which captures paintings in ultra-high resolution, “gigapixel” images, allowing you to discover paintings inch by inch.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.

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