RE: Viewing Ivan Aivazovsky's Works in The National Gallery of Armenia
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I'm now imagining this guy looking at his canvas offcuts (making the assumption he prepped his own canvases) and thinking about ways to not waste them with those tiny paintings XD
And they're a whole freaking skill on their own (not one that I've tried analogue, I can't even do a digital tiny painting).
That artist does do some really nice moon lighting. I'm sure I've seen the round one on an actual plate before, back when collecting paintings done/reproduced on plates was popular.
Was the other place anal about photography in general (because they have the misconception that people won't come see it in person if they can just see an imitation online) or just with the flash? I have photos from the art gallery here so I'm pretty sure they just said no flash photography because it can effect the oil on the older paintings or something to that effect.
I have no idea. They didn't let any type of photography. Turkey was a very backward place though. Very few things made sense. Here I could take pictures, they made sure they had signs saying no flash. And here there aren't even ropes or barriers to stop you from getting too close to the art. Even with the museums, displays are pretty much fully open. It's a high trust society here where they expect you to respect everything. People do.
Do you think a lot of setups are self fulfilling prophecies? Like in places that pre-emptively take punitive measures on everyone because some people are idiots have a higher rate of people acting like idiots than places where good behaviour is just expected?