PlinkArt

by Antonio Wells May 25, 2010 1:38 PM – Leave your thoughts

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PlinkArt is an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art. The coolest feature of PlinkArt is instant art identification. Just snap a photo of a painting, and our servers will identify it! Plink is good for browsing too. Explore by timeline, leave comments, share your discoveries with friends.

Price: Free

PlinkArt will become apart of Google Goggles visual search app.

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Visual search for artwork, identifies some artwork by camera phone picture taken
Browse artists by Timeline and Genre
Discover, share, comment and buy reprints of artwork

Cons

I personally would like to see the app identify present day or even less known artists and artwork

Features:

PlinkArt Android App is a cool way to visually search artwork by taking a picture of the artwork via the phone’s camera. Also browse and discover artists and artwork by Timeline and Genre. Learn more about the artist via Wikipedia information, Comment on an artist, Share via email and sharing apps installed on your phone, or Buy reprints from AllPosters.com.

Personal Gripe: I love art and wish PlinkArt could identify more present day artwork and artists. It seems understandable what it does recognize, but tends to only recognize legendary artists and their work. Maybe now that Google has acquired PlinkArt and will incorporate the technology into Google Goggles, Google’s scale and possible new tools offered to the art community may give this enhancement in the future.

: PlinkArt Search

: PlinkArt Search Results

: PlinkArt Artists Wikipedia Information

: PlinkArt Comment on Artist

: PlinkArt Works by Artist

: PlinkArt Art Close-up

: PlinkArt Browse Art by Timeline and Genre

: PlinkArt Search Using a Photo

: PlinkArt Sharing Options

: PlinkArt Buy Poster Reprints from AllPosters.com

Usefulness:

The app is really handy and scores cool points versus being useful, I say that because if you’re in a major art museum this app will impress you with it’s accuracy. However will not find artists or artwork that are not legendary.

Ease of Use:

There are several ways to discover art; either take a picture of it, type the search or let the app show you something at random. A another cool feature is the Timeline which shows popular genres by year on the timeline which you can filter down.