Art Authority For Ipad App Reviews

An outstanding reference. Very well organized and easy to use. A great way to discover artists throughout history and from many genres.

Over 10 Russian artists can be found in the collection but they are not located in any category or timeline that I can find. Suggestion... add a Russian artist category that contains them... Other than that, 2 thumbs ups for the app! Having a hand- held set of art museums to study art is super! Excellent work!

This app isn’t worth the $10 they want for it. It’s OK, but not great. It’s not organized very well and the image quality should be better. And, for all the pieces in here, most are from white men which makes it feel a little monolithic. For this amount of money, it should be better.

Art Authority is a combination of unique concept and resourceful reference source that allows users to feel that they are touring a real life museum with hundreds of works from various periods and artists only the users access to knowledge extends beyond that of an institution. Users are even given the option to purchase reproductions of works they like making Art Authority an application for education and commerce.

It’s great to see this collection of art, but the image quality is very very poor. It’s like they’ve been duplicated and compressed a few dozen times on Facebook before being put in the app. I look forward to that improving.

The app does not work, the works don’t download. Tried deleting, reinstalling, and nothing. Waste of time!

The ap quit working after an os update. I contacted them and never heard back. Uninstalling and reinstalling eventually fixed the problem though. This is a nice art history app, collections are well organized. I do like Art Interactive better.

Art Authority is well worth the price! An art history book would cost 5 times this price and wouldn't have near the quantity of artwork you can view on this app. And, art history books weigh a ton. I was able to watch a shuffled slideshow of impressionists, view several paintings chronologically of an artist I wasn't familiar with and look him up in wikipedia with the tap of a button, while listening to my iPod music all in the comfort of my living room. A couple of the photos are pixelated, but the majority are beautiful. I'm looking forward to viewing more. I also found a list of photos that I can see up close at the museums near me. I like the layout of the app. It is very easy to use. Hope the developers keep adding to this app, but with 1000 artists and 50,000 pieces of art, I'm sure I'll keep busy for awhile. Update: for those giving this a bad review because it won't update, it is an Apple problem with ios 6 that will be resolved. I promptly received an email with this answer when I wrote Art Authority.

Great app! Well organized, thousands of images, keeps me interested. They update it from time to time with nice new user features and/or new material.

Loved this app until this most recent update. Now it's stuck in an endless update, literally for a week. Please fix!!!

None of the art I am looking for is here. They have nothing of African or African American culture, like we don't have art. It's a waste of money.

Needs more(a lot more) art. Also why are there fluctuations in the quality of the art?

This app is easy to use and has an elegant interface. The catalog of paintings is huge but once the sources are different there inconsistency in quality of digitalization, although at least 70% of the artwork has a good quality, but essential stuff like Guernica is low quality. AirPlay would be a good enhancement for an update.

There are surprisingly few art-viewing apps for the iPad. This is the best I've found, but I keep wishing it were better. The navigation is pretty clumsy and slow. For example, to search through an artist's works for a particular title, you have to wait for all of them to load, which can take a long time. The alternative is to navigate all the way back to the home screen, then search by title (which is faster for some reason, but then you'll be searching through all artists). I also wish the scans were higher-resolution. On the positive side, the number of images is pretty huge, and there are "detail" views of some works, which partially makes up for the low resolution. Overall, I'm finding this a useful reference, but hope they continue to improve it.

It is great to have this great database at your fingertips,even though the organization is laughable and the navigation is terrible. It took me a while to discover that there is a toolbar where you can choose period, location, etc. but when it disappeared I couldn't get it back -I gave up after 40minutes. Perhaps someone can help me, but not the instructions.

Very comprehensive, but I wish either there was another one for photography, or it was included in here. Also there are some prominent current artists that could be included, not much on eastern art which would be useful.

For the money this app charges, I really expected much more scholarly effort put into the information. I almost took a double take when I saw that all the info was just a link to Wikipedia. It makes me wonder about how they get their images. Are those just open source as well? Many of the images are horribly low-res. For something that calls itself "Art Authority" and charges as much as this app does, I really expected much more groundwork. As it is, the app just feels like a pretty polished Wikipedia portal. That being said, it does present the works to you well and provides those Wikipedia links conveniently. The app is sometime inconveniently slow, but the overall presentation is well done. Don't expect the museum experience, but if you are looking to expose yourself to many important artists and works of art, this app is very good for that. However, I recommend buying it on sale.

The strength of the app is the size of the collection you can access. That is is quite good. But, the interface is hardly intuitive, even after using it for a while, and there are very noticeable JPEG artefacts in an awful lot of the scans, which makes the zoom feature a lot less useful. Also it feels pokey, even on the newest iPad.

Nice app but every time they write an update, which is often, you loose your downloaded cache library. Worse yet, it keeps the thumbnails of the images you downloaded but not the full size image (where as you initially don't until it downloads the high res image and stores it in your cache). So you don't know what's in your library or not and chances are, nothing after an update. At least erase the thumbnails if your great programmers can't do a proper update and keep my downloaded library, pretty sloppy programming.

This is absolutely my favorite iPad app. I can spend hours wandering through and never get tired of it. Simply stunning. I paid $5 for it, and thought it was a bit much, but it really is worth every penny. Pros: great selection, wonderful layout, easy to use, hi-def photos, can order prints, save to photos option Cons: useless without wifi. In settings you can set the photo cache to 50K (default is 5K) but the second you're off wifi the photos you just viewed are no longer viewable. (sometimes) You get a message telling you there is no wifi but you can view cached photos. Lies. Things I wish for: 1.A folder where you can view your offline cache of photos. 2. Ability to sort paintings chronologically. 3. Fill in the gaps on certain key artists that are lacking 4. Ability to lock artists so the paintings are never removed from cache and never have to reload

You cannot cache images to view offline. Another bit of crApple hype. Save your money.

It's ironic the an app designed to show famous works of art has the ugliest UI I've ever seen. It works well enough. Wish the artwork was higher res.

This is a good app to give a comprehensive view of world art. The art is divided into periods such as pre 1400 AD, and categories such as Roman. I would like more art works but this is a good app for people who want to see art works from many eras and regions.

This is a large, well organized, informative, diverse and beautiful compendium of art! Well done!

Awesome ... That being said, 1) Itwould be great if it featured highlights for individual artists, rather than just the period. And 2) Since each body of work can take awhile to load, it'd be great if it could be partitioned up somehow, so that you don't have to reload everything if you want to go back.

Update stalls. Does not install. Prior to this update a wonderful resource. Gave it a three. When update fixed an easy five.

The latest update won't install on my iPad 2. It's been hung up for weeks. Fix it, please!

I love this program, but I hope that bugs are corrected soon. Certain artists (Degas for example) will not load at all, and some (like Seurat) will only partially load. Please fix these distracting bugs!

As an art teacher, I find this app worth every penny. One problem, when I updated my iPad, a lot of my cached images were wiped off, and I could not access them until I get back on wifi. Great resolution and variety, though!

Very happy with the app. Easy to use, huge collection and high resolution portraits.

Loved this app, but after updating it crashes whenever I try to actually look at a piece of art. I've tried cycling power, deleting and downloading again, all to no avail. (iPad 1, 32 gb memory). If you can fix this or give me some way to go back to the previous version, I would be very grateful. Hopefully, Harvey

LOVE IT! One of my 5 favorite apps. Well worth the $$$. Yes, some of the photos when zoomed are pixilated, but others are not. Its like taking a Saturday am stroll though a art museum. Love it. A couple of enhancement wish lists- Would be really great if we could have more than one favorite list, or be able to sort and filter favorites. I am going to the Louvre next month- help me sort/ filter my looong list of favorites for just that museum. Maybe a mulit level sort by period, medium and artist. And if we could add notes to paintings it would be even more perfect.

Much improved update that allows you to zoom in and see a work of art in great detail. I've enjoyed looking at the many paintings and also being able to get information about them. A really great way to take a Art History course. Highly recommended.

This is a fun and a serious time killer. I enjoy this app a lot.

This has been my favorite app for quite a while now. With hundreds of artists represented (plus time periods, styles, movements, etc.) there is always something to enjoy, in lovely high resolution. My one feature request is to be able to UNfavorite artworks. Then your favorites could evolve along with you, and you could use the favorites to quiz yourself on various artwork details, changing the elements of the quiz as you learn.

The app is truly wonderful, an informative, helpful portal into classical art and it's history. Two requests: 1. Use the absolute highest resolution source images. Some of the images are either low resolution or contain distracting aliasing. If there are no better options for those, I would include a setting to filter out low quality images. 2. Include more metadata if possible. One idea is image dimensions along with real dimensions.

This app is mind blowing. I've spent too much time studying the facts about the major art movements, the big name artists and the pieces they've created and haven't been able to meditate on the actual ARTWORKS themselves. This app has solved that. Now I can cruise through virtually any period and soak the beauty in... Right through this gorgeous retina display (for iPad 3, of course). Most of the images are super crisp, but that's not always the case. I figure they work with whatever they were able to get their hands on. I haven't come across anything "bad," yet, though. Absolutely an invaluable tool for art historians. Everyone who is a part of Western civilization as a whole should be required by law to dig through this app. It makes so much culture accessible. Just fantastic.

Update stuck in install for weeks. Waiting for fix.

So many mistakes!!! Horrible database!! Even worse with this update!!

For an art neophyte such as myself, I was looking forward to learning more about the beautiful art out there. Many pictures in the app are pretty lo-res, but I can handle that, but then the source for more info is Wikipedia? C'mon. Really?

This is great app for who ever interested in history of art! And it will be great help for students who are taking art history classes! One thing it lacks and it would make it 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 app is lack of search! Other than that it's a great app! Looking forward using it in my history classes and for the next update!

Al momento de actualizar a la última versión entré para probar y la aplicación se sale de la instalación y me devuelve a la página principal del iPad, cada vez que hago tap sobre nombres, títulos o épocas se sale de la instalación. Me gustaría volver a la aplicación anterior hasta que se resuelva este problema. Gracias.

I wasted money on this, thinking it was going to be some sort of grand experience, instead it was like looking at pictures of artwork on google, except there is more pictures on google!

Great update to a great app. Critical videos added to works are very informative. Looks nice on iPad air2. I've had this app since the original iPad. Enjoy it very much.

After nearly filling up my iPad 3 (with only 16 GB --- 13.3 GB usable) it didn't have enough space to keep this app loaded all the time. So I would delete it and reload it sometimes. Now with iOS 7 on my new iPad Air this developer has forgotten that I already paid for their app. My advice then is: Don't buy this expensive app if you might delete it from your iPad, unless you don't mind having to buy it again.

More: I have to say that the UI is like cheap app from win95 era. Seriously? This is an art app and the design looks no where near art. How come only 36 pieces from Dali? Please complete the collection.

I am suprised how in love I am with this app. It is always updating and adding more works. I can now view 772 Van Gogh works in high resolution color, with the ability to zoom and pan. I never get tired of this app. It includes works from museums large and small as well as private collections. Awesome way to discover new favorite artists you never knew.

Not usefull at all. The app needs to create their own database rather than relaying on wikipedia

Most of the Dali is now missing and what is there loads painfully slowly. It wasn't broken, but they ,fixed' it.

One can save individual images to Favorites, but, having downloaded all works by an artist, there is no way to explicitly save this entire group in a personal library that will survive updates. In addition, one wants to be able to reliably pause and resume offline viewing of such groups. The app's cache is not an adequate substitute for these facilities.

Very good set I really enjoy love it .....would like more