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Studying the benefits of virtual art engagement

James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter talk to Penn Today about their research into digital art galleries.
Vincent Van Gogh's The Postman, full-scale and zoomed-in.
James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter taught a Flourishing Through Art class online for the Barnes Foundation, using its visual experience platform (VXP). The VXP allows viewers to zoom in on artworks, such as Vincent van Gogh’s The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin) (c. 1889, The Barnes Foundation, BF37) pictured here full-scale and zoomed-in.
(Image: Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation)

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