| Virtual Picture Frames is a natural progression from my Orientalist Art pages, where I have collected high resolution images of Orientalist paintings. More often than not, these paintings are found on the internet without their frames, and a painting without a frame loses a lot of impact. Framing is an art in it's self, finding the right frame is very exciting, you bring the painting up to its true potential, it is a "mis en valeur" and a kind of revelation. With the Orientalist paintings I tried to find frames in the style of Louis XV, which is the way many of these paintings were framed in the past and even now, it is the "right" frame. However at the end of the 19th century these frames were but plaster copies of the real thing, made more than a century earlier. In virtual framing we don't need to mess with copies we can use the real thing... this lead me to researching Louis XV frames. Actually at first I was just looking for high resolution images of these frames and in the process, I discovered that there are not many specialists around in this field, at least not many on the internet. This then takes us to page one of Virtual Picture Frames. |
