Google set up an electronic library of street art

Google is working with art experts to set up a digital library to store images of works on the Internet.

Google has used a dedicated video recorder to store images of French artist Cleon Peterson . The Google Cultural Institute is working on a project to track street art works around the world and select valuable works to save on the online library, making it easy for people to access via online. This activity received the support of many museums and art experts from around the world and a number of non-profit organizations.

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Mr. Amit Sood , Director of Google Cultural Institute said: ' The mission of the Google Cultural Institute is to build a virtual exhibition with high artistic value, associated with the life and development history of society. with a lively, charismatic expression. Visit here, you will have access to a top art treasure with thousands of unique works such as a journey through the world 's lands .

Google and 30 partners, mainly museums and galleries around the world, offer a new way to explore street art through the Internet. Murals are often unknown to the author and many works are even removed as soon as it is created, the purpose of this library is to promptly record valuable works when they exist.

Amit Sood added: ' A year ago, we decided to start this work by recording the images of street art works in Sao Paolo, then getting the attention of many Internet users and users '.

The street art gallery set up by Google is a great tool for art lovers, who regret that it was not born sooner to save many works before disappearing in many countries. Google has used many applications available to search for works like Google Map, Google StreetView , then send partners in the nearest location to access and record and then import into the library, in which there are many works at Big buildings were demolished, as the imprints in the building named Tower 13 in France were destroyed in April this year.