Today on its very entertaining blog Bunker Notes the Christchurch Art
Gallery put up a quiz. Showing details of works that feature smoking (cigarette
variety), you're asked to identify the complete art work. Most art savvy people
could easily identify three, even four, of the works but the two drawings are
pretty mysterious. Now there's a solution. Thanks to Google image recognition
all you need to do to win competitions like this is to pop the image into the
Google Image search box. All the details came back with pics of the full image,
although one of them needed the words Christchurch as a kicker. This is going
to revolutionise (maybe it already has) art history research.
LATER (08-03-03): Since posting this the Christchurch Art Gallery has taken their quiz post down for copyright reasons. Kind of ironic given that all the images are out there on the internet anyway, but there you go.
LATER (08-03-03): Since posting this the Christchurch Art Gallery has taken their quiz post down for copyright reasons. Kind of ironic given that all the images are out there on the internet anyway, but there you go.
Images: the Christchurch details, even when significantly further reduced still picked up their originals via Google image
