Canadian Painting in the Thirties
In 2008, the National Gallery of Canada called upon the expertise of Ideclic to make available online more than eight thousand images and digitally archived documents related to the exhibition "Canadian Painting in the Thirties" that took place in 1975. The Ideclic team was entrusted with the graphic design and creation of this virtual exhibition.
Using the remarkable graphic quality of works selected from the original exhibition, and colours and styles faithful to the 1930s, this cyber exhibition presents a variety of multimedia elements. Included are works of art, documentary photographs, newspaper clippings, audio recordings, and many other archival documents from this rich source of Canadian cultural heritage. The introduction and the seven sections that make up the virtual exhibition correspond to the chapters of the original exhibition catalogue. Navigation is done with the help of a dynamic Flash menu that uses labels of works to identify each section. Visitors also have the choice of viewing the menu as text-only in HTML.
The site was intended to target the interests of a diverse public: from art enthusiasts to university researchers, Canadian and international. Ideclic thus proposed an interface concept where the resources associated with each section are easily locatable and always accessible. As well, visitors can easily find all the information they are looking for, and much more. Ideclic also made sure that the exhibition would fit harmoniously into the NGC's Cybermuse on-line research and consultation tools.
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| Client(s) | : | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Theme(s) | : | Fine arts |
| Target audience(s) | : | Passionate General Audiences |
| Categories | : | Virtual exhibition |
| Language(s) | : | French English |
