WikiArt

I have just, regrettably, bought this app expecting to view detailed masterpieces. Instead I find myself looking at blurred images and having to imagine what the artist in question had actually painted.

WikiArt is a hugely important resource which gives instant access to the great and well known artists as well as the more obscure contemporary artists worldwide. One little criticism. For me there is not nearly enough Scottish artists represented. Scotland has produced massively influential art throughout the 20th century up to the present day. From Robert Colghoun and Robert MacBryde to Joan Eardley, Anne Redpath and Dame Elizabeth Blackadder. Peter Howson, Steven Campbell,Ken Currie and Gwen Hardie to name a few contemporaries. I do hope wiki art will be looking to support Scottish culture in the near future and redress the balance. Apart from that,definitely worth five stars.

I love art and culture and even commentaries, but sometimes it’s just nice to be able to access art catalogues and extensive works of artists without any writing and be exposed to pure art. And should you wish, you get the added bonus of being able to buy some prints as posters, on canvas or framed in chosen sizes and prices. This is a solid 5 stars, my only 2 suggestions for updates to make this app by far head and shoulders above the rest, would be: 1) Be able to categorise your favourites and to also make folders within folders. As it is just one long favourites list which is a lot to scroll through. 2) I’ve noticed you can’t buy some prints and for small pictures this makes sense, but I noticed with MC Esher it seems to be all his later works, it’s almost as if the developers filtered the paintings by date and made the selection to sell from his earlier works. If this is the case, it’s a mistake because some of MC Esther’s later works were phenomenal and separated himself from the rest, especially his optical illusion’s. Anyway, this is still an amazing app and I don’t want to appear like I’m moaning because I absolutely love it.

This app is really entertaining and within a few minutes on the homepage you can delve into different styles and genres of art. You’ll find out what is reallyyy your favourite style of art. I don’t want to give it less than 5 stars as the overall functionality of the app is great and I’ve really expanded my knowledge on different arts and found so many amazing pieces. My only down mark is that the search feature for keywords is limited to 20 per search. It also isn’t too accurate sometimes. The tags on different art pieces should be more plentiful and the search should be unlimited and relate better to this wider search for tags. If it can incorporate this improvement then it is perfect for its purpose.

Short review to say thank you for the most excellent application. I thought that Wikipedia was the greatest invention for knowledge and now a similar thanks to the guys behind WikiArt. Keep up the good work. All the worlds art in one place and accessible to all.

Genuinely love the content, the collections that are available are very complete. Has artists from different time periods and countries too, which is great to explore art from outside of your immediate knowledge. I wish, they had detailed descriptions for the art pieces. Maybe a small paragraph just detailing the content.

Brilliant App - So good to just browse and relax in these difficult times.

But ... you do need to fix the going back options for when you click on an individual artist / art category

I recently decided to take up the hobby of researching art because I want to get into it. I found that this is the perfect app, I love how you get such in depth information about the painting itself and the artist!! Such an amazing app!!

The collections of the art works in every artist are very complete, especially compared to Google Arts & Culture. But there are two cons: First, it would be better if adding the background or introduction for most famous works; Second, the feature of ‘add to Favourites’ is not very helpful, you cannot create a gallery to separate different type or different artist of the artwork, and after you add the paintings to your Favourites, it becomes very messy, the order of artworks are disrupted. But overall, it still a good app.