Because of its relevance, I would like to dedicate a specific post to a topic raised by JoeKaz in this blog (June, 13). Joe wrote:
“It would be great if all artists added a description to their paintings - some do, but some do not. The subject (bold cursive mine) may be very familiar to the artist, but not to someone else in the world. A short text saying what the painting is of, what landmark we are looking at, or some historic trivia, or anything that the artist thinks someone else would find interesting - this would add so much more value to PaintMap.”
And here was my answer (slightly improved):
“The comment by Joe is absolutely opportune. It is fundamental to the Paintmap goals that artists provide the kind of information mentioned by Joe. It would be also very nice that those users who have the ability to do it, go ahead from geography, ecology, history, etc and express their feelings about the subject painted or the painting experience. The posts by Sarah (e.g., http://www.paintmap.com/?item=359) are very nice examples of this ability. I realize that, personally, I lack Sarah’s ability to transmit painting feelings as she do so nicely, but many of you are surely able to go this step forward. In any case, we all should include at least some short site information that could not be derived from the map or from the pictures provided by Panoramio. This will without doubt be welcomed by Paintmap users.
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