History Of A Painting - "What's the point?"

The written and narrated story is entertaining but lacking in detail and feels like it's aimed at a young teen audience at best. Furthermore, the simplicity in the art-style of the ten minute animated sequence echoes this lack of detail, even if the texture of the animation objects cleverly mimic the poinillism style.

Ironically, the pointillism technique of using tiny dots of various pure colors to produce vivid images probably isn't the best subject to begin a virtual reality series on paintings. The painter's pointed brush-strikes clash with the limited pixels of the digital VR screen, producing a strobing effect that makes it difficult to appreciate the painting the way it was intended.

It's clear that a lot of work has gone into the History Of A Painting series so far, and it's also pleasing to see the progression of quality that's already occurred in the two episodes currently available. We do fail to see however what virtual reality has to offer here. Surely these same stories could have been shown just as successfully as flatscreen presentations? And if the goal is to engage young adults, then it must be easier to do it on a large flat screen or projection in a classroom than it is on a one-by-one basis through the lenses of a virtual reality headset. Also, afterwards we sought out further understanding of these subjects with the Great Art Explained channel on YouTube, and found that we learned much more in around the same amount of time.

✅ Good scripts suitable for young teens.
❌ Unremarkable graphical presentation.
❌ Virtual reality doesn't seem necessary for these stories.

Lovely VR experience about an important character of the European art world. The narration is entertaining and the episode makes the most of the VR space to engage the viewer.

Story is told with quite broad strokes and I found it a bit boring. Would have liked to see more examples of the art from the three "schools", and some personal letters or diaries from key artists.

Pointilism is also problematic in VR as the headset resolution is too low, causing aliasing. In order to perceive this painting better, you would need to enlarge parts of it, or move the camera closer.

Overall though, this is very artsy and good.

I enjoyed this and would love to see more like it. The graphics could be better but it was interesting and cool. Thanks devs!

A very enjoyable experience.