Samsung brings Van Gogh ‘paintings’ to Korea via Smart TV, makes us reach for the absinthe

Here is kind of strange. People in Korea are observing masterpieces of Western art on a TV screen — and never from the relaxation in their laptops . It is all portion of something called Rêve et Réalité (Dream and Reality), a Samsung-sponsored exhibition that brings one of the world’s most celebrated works to Seoul’s Hangaram Museum via four, 46-inch LEDs. The expo, on display until September, features one of the vital greatest hits from Claude Monet, Jean F. Millet and, most notably, Van Gogh, whose Starry Night hasn’t ever been on display in Korea (and, so far as we’re concerned, still hasn’t). Televised docents provide background info at the artists, whose paintings are all transmitted via an enormous Smart TV video wall that blurs out all semblance of texture and nuance — similar to that bottle of absinthe we’re about to pound.

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