Given the context of patronage great painters and sculptors historically thrived in, it’s no wonder many masterpieces followed from religious exultation. Among them, undoubtedly, is Pietà, this embodiment of mother’s grief after the loss of her child.
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Life, innocence, and purity but also death, brutal cold, and sterility. There is no one white hue, its shades are manifold. How is, then, the color WHITE rendered in Audio Description?
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Jan Matejko, a 19th c. Polish painter, renowned for his large-scale oil on canvas battle scenes and imagery rooted deeply in the history of Poland, is now audio described for the American blind.
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December 2019 took Æ Academic to the University of Wrocław, Poland, where we shared our experiences on preparing audio descriptions of fine arts masterpieces for the blind audience in the US.
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What can you expect in Speaks the Masterpiece, the new book by Beata Jerzakowska? Audio descriptions of a whole array of paintings from the world canon. Here is…
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Read on about a complex and picturesque painting which uses aerial perspective to cram into a single work tons of narratives – to include a plowman with a purse and dagger, wearing clothes that clearly would never be worn by a field worker; an inattentive shepherd with …
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Read on about a masterful use of light and the viewer’s basic human nature to draw them into the painting, and maybe even the subject’s state of mind. As a person with …
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