In this fascinating post from the Daily Dot, James Elkins, Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains how the power of the internet allows us to view works as never before, but asks us to cosider how this access has changed our perceptions. 

Elkins suggests that, “..we are now seeing things more closely than we should, than we were ever meant to. That is particularly true in the case of artworks that are uploaded at very high resolutions—so high that we see them more closely than the artists ever intended.”

Read his article, ‘Is google bringing us too close to art?‘ here.