Art Academy - Gallery & Museum

ABOUT ART ACADEMY

Art Academy is a reference app for modern and classic art. This virtual art gallery lets you learn more about your favorite paintings and artists and share them with friends. You can also browse the painting collections of the best museums in the world and locate them on a map.

MAIN FEATURES

• Browse a very large collection of painting masterpieces which have all be categorized to make browsing and searching as easy as possible.
• Easily swipe between paintings/painters/museums.
• Choose your favorite carousels and add them to the app home-screen.
• Set paintings as wallpapers, share them or save them.
• View high resolution images with the ability to zoom in.
• View museums and their collections as well and find them on a map.
• View a slideshow of paintings.
• Bookmark you favorite paintings/painters/museums.
• Links to Wikipedia page for painter/painting/museum and lets you share the link.
• Visit the official website of museums.
• Home screen widget.
• Search for paintings, painters and museums.
- Search paintings by title (e.g. Mona Lisa, Night Watch, Water Lilies, Las Meninas, etc.), medium (e.g. Oil, Canvas, etc.), period (e.g. Italian Renaissance, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, etc.), or art genre (e.g. abstract art, landscape, portrait, self-portrait, still-life, Ukiyo-e, etc.). There are over 16000 paintings available.
- Search painters by name (e.g. van Gogh, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, da Vinci, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Chikanobu, etc.), period (e.g. Baroque, Cubism, Edo, Expressionism, Surrealism, Renaissance, Rococo, Romanticism, etc.), or nationality. We have more than 900 painters.
- Search museums by name (e.g. Prado, Louvre, Ufizzi Tate Britain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.), type (e.g. historical building, archeological museum, ancient art museum, etc.) and country. We provide information on more than 600 museums.

PERMISSIONS

Google play license check: Used to check the application license.
Read Google service configuration: Used to display museum on a map.
Full network access, view network connections: Used to fetch content/ads/maps.
Set wallpaper, adjust wallpaper size: Used to set paintings as wallpapers.
Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage: Used to save painting images to the sdcard.
Google play billing service: Used to upgrade to the ad free version.

Recent changes:
- More than 16000 paintings, 900 painters and 600 museums
- Total revamp of user interface
- Significant performance improvements