It’s not everyday I get to write about art in Second Life. Eventhough I sometimes consider the good designers (Julia Hathor, Ava Weyland and Aimee Weber) as artists.
Today I stumbled across the Palace of Classic Paintings – a four story building full of Van Gogh’s, Rembrandt’s, Monet’s etc. etc. – Obviously a pearl for all of us, who has the ability to loose track of time and place completely around divine art. I hung out for I think 2 or 3 hours – Engulfed by the details that makes them artists and me a common amateur.
It’s so impressing, that many of the features is visible in the virtual world as well. Lighting and texture (eventhough entirely digital) stands out from the “canvas” as though they were real.
I was also very please to reunite with one of my favorite paintings – “Girl with a pearlearring” by Johannes Vermeer. As I’m sure many guys have had through time, I had a little crush on that mysterious girl once.
BUT… as in real life, amateurs like me, must watch out for forgeries. So my eyes fell up the painting “Nightmare” by the british painter John Henry Fuseli. As novice I had never heard of Fuseli before so I looked him up in Wikipedia.
Surprise, surprise – the painting I was falling in love with in the SL-museum was NOT the Fuseli 1781 oilpainting. Of course it’s a matter of who you trust. But I have no reason to doubt Wikipedia. And here John Henry Fuseli’s “Nightmare” looks like this:
Now I just wonder who made the painting in Second Life? ‘Cause I like that too 
