Van Gogh, The Bedroom
The Van Gogh Museum has created a blog , Bedroom Secrets, that will follow the restoration of the painting, “The Bedroom”. Back in 1999 the Van Gogh Museum let 20 paintings out for a world tour. Washington, DC’s National Gallery of art was one of the stops. The Van Gogh Museum also produced virtual online exhibition as well. There were selected pieces that were given a special 3D treatment, which was very cool! Or I should say, it was very cool when it worked! Back in 1999 this was a breakthrough technology that was plug-in based. It took a big performance hit on your computer system. The painting, “The Bedroom” was one of those paintings given the special 3D touch. The illusion was that you could “walk” inside of the painting and look around. For some reason I always thought of the title of this painting as, “The Yellow Bed”. Maybe that was its sub title.
Here in Washington, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History did something similar with the restoration of the “Star Spangled Banner”. The flag from Battle of Baltimore, that Francis Scott Key wrote about. I can’t remember if they had a blog, but you could follow the restoration from the museum’s site. The museum now has an online educational program, check it out , here.
