Art Version: 4.4 Review | iPhone and iPad Education App

"A Genuine Work of Art for the iPhone"
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Great Artists and their masterpieces.
Pocket Art Gallery. Slideshow and Quiz.

Best selling ART app on the store. Top 100 paid in 12 countries. Staff favorite app (August-Sep '09)

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NEW in 4.4:
✓ Additional 35 artists, including many modern: Picasso, Dali, Warhol, Matisse, Magritte, Rothko, Klee, Rivera, O'Keefe, Kahlo, Pollock and others.
✓ Open external web sites to learn more about artists (wikipedia, abcgallery and others),
✓ Save images from web sites to your gallery
✓ Fixed crash on start bug
✓ integration with OPENFEINT for quiz - see how other people play, challenge and post your results on facebook and twitter.
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From US customers reviews:

"Fabulous
High quality images of famous works of art. Biographies of artists. Perfect for improving one's knowledge of art history while standing in line. Thanks!"
by TracyDower

"Great art at your fingertips!
Faulous!"
by OrganonLL7
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Features:
✓ 204 ARTISTS and constantly adding new. Add/Remove artists - create your own list of artists.
✓ Full BIOGRAPHIES of artist from Wikipedia. Offline no connection needed to read them.
✓ Open external WEB sites to learn more about artists
✓ 6000+ pictures to view in portrait and landscape modes.
✓ SAVE images from web sites to your gallery. Extending your gallery is an infinite fun.
✓ OFFLINE browsing with bulk download feature. Full database of images is about 400MB in size. You can download all images and browse them offline or you can load only when you open a particular picture.
✓ PARENTAL CONTROL setting allows you to hide all nude and horror pictures. Or you can turn on adult pictures only mode...
✓ Animated SLIDESHOW for random pictures and for pictures in My Gallery (selected by you)
✓ QUIZ game - who is the artist?
✓ SAVE TO PHOTOS. You can save painting to your iPhone photos library and set it as a wallpaper
✓ EMAIL IMAGE - create a nice looking html email with a link to the artist's page on wikipedia.
✓ SEARCH by artists name or work title
✓ MY GALLERY section with your favorite pictures. Turn iPhone/iPod into landscape mode to see your favorite pictures enlarged and framed
✓ MOST EXPENSIVE ART section.
✓ integration with OPENFEINT for quiz - see how other people play, challenge and post your results on facebook and twitter.

Note: Using pictures of modern artists works requires expensive licensing. That’s why their galleries initially have no images. But when you are online you can open web galleries and save pictures for you own collection to browse them anytime.

Note: Some masterpieces depict NUDE people - both women and men.

Works of arts used in the application are to the best of our knowledge in the public domain.

ART is still under active development. Please send you feedback to support@ads-sg.com. Follow our twitter at http://twitter.com/adssginc and subscribe to our newsletter at http://blog.ads-sg.com. With every update and new release we give away free promo codes!

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Art Review

Collections of works of art is not exhaustive, but helpful for students and novices

by Jeff Phillips, Macworld.com

What can you get for $149.7 million? How about a nice Jackson Pollock masterpiece? Too rich for you? OK, how about Art, from ADS Software?If nothing else, the $1 app will run you hundreds of millions less than that Pollock painting, and you might learn a thing or two as part of the bargain.

Yes, But Is It Art?: Browse through more than 400 works in Art by artist, works, and—in this view—top selling paintings.

Art includes around 400 works to investigate, enough to keep most art students busy for a few days. Each image and artist is accompanied by a link to a Wikipedia entry, so you should be able to find out why van Gogh lost that ear.

You have several options with the artwork presented. You can browse Artists, Works and Top Sales, and also play a quiz game. Searches are possible, but only of artwork, not of artists. Images may be rotated horizontally, providing a better viewing experience for images so oriented. Notably, pictures can be saved to the phone, allowing you to store them in your photo library, use them as wallpaper, or export them to your computer. The images look good, and can be zoomed and moved, but the resolution is not really high enough for anything bigger than an iPhone.

The included quiz game is simple enough. Art shows you an image, title and perhaps the year; you have to pick the right artist from among four choices. It can be tougher than it sounds, but let’s just say I was pleasantly surprised how much of my college art history class I remembered.

Now, I’m not exactly an expert, but I know there have been more than 400 works of art produced in the history of the world; and this app seems to think a hefty chunk of them were produced in Russia. An exhaustive catalogue it is not, but Art is a novel application for the student, beginner, or hobbyist.

Art is compatible with any iPhone and iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x update.

[Jeff Phillips is an educator, podcaster, father, blogger, husband, photographer and general technology pundit. He has also been known to give the occasional Feng Shui consultation.]

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Doesn't Work, Mislead on Artists

Reviewed by haveart

Apparently this company was serving up art that they did not have copyrights to - all the modern artists. I was attracted to buy the application for the modern art. I found that some of the artists work was not available to me with earlier version, downloaded a few weeks ago. Then, the application stopped working all together. I read about the issues with the new version that had recently become available - all the modern art removed and frequent crashes. I downloaded the update because the old version ceased to work. Well, the new version does not work at all. Save your money until you hear they have a fix. Do not believe their Web site, believe the reviews and ignore earlier reviews that tout the great modern art. Was a great app - too bad.

Great App for Art lovers

Reviewed by outlander1138

Sweet! Great app if you are a lover of art. This app has some really nice features and even a quiz game built in. It's like having an art history book right in your pocket. All artists in the app have full bio's with tons of background and info on the artist. Great collection of sample artworks that you can even save out and use as your own wallpaper or email if you like. This is a very nicely done app and a must have if you are an artist of any kind.