ArtArc

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The everyday person's guide to the story of art - told as one interactive arc. ArtArc begins half a million years ago with a zigzag carved on a shell, and ends with pictures conjured from words. Twelve chapters, sixty-six moments, each one a story you can read in a minute. Then the app asks you to do more than scroll: * Play Style Detective, an offline quiz that asks you to identify eras, artworks, and turning points from bundled images and clues. * Build your Art Passport as you visit chapters, read milestones, find artwork details, and improve your Detective score. * Use Compare Mode to place ideas side by side: Durer's copy panic beside Stable Diffusion, the Sarony photography case beside AI copyright rulings, Duchamp beside the state-fair AI art argument. * Tap selected artworks for guided hotspots on symbols, composition, technique, and context. * Reveal Details wallpapers: explore an artwork's hotspots and its museum-grade close-up - cropped from open-access masterpieces at wallpaper resolution - appears in your gallery. Along the way: • The Ice Age galleries of Chauvet and Lascaux - and the 1880 scandal when experts refused to believe cave art was real • Egypt's painters of eternity, Greece's first signed artworks, Rome's painted illusions • The Renaissance inventions: perspective, oil paint, and the first mass-media copy panic • Photography's arrival - when critics called the camera "art's most mortal enemy" and courts had to rule on whether a machine's picture could be art at all • Impressionism (named after an insult), Van Gogh (who sold almost nothing), Duchamp's urinal • The machine age: the 1965 plotter exhibitions, the program that painted for forty years, and the night two duelling neural networks changed image-making forever • The prompt era: DeepDream's hallucinations, the $432,500 AI portrait, the astronaut riding a horse, the state-fair prize that started a global argument - and the court rulings deciding, once again, what counts as art Every image in the app comes from public-domain and museum open-access collections - including landmark AI works that US rulings placed in the public domain - and every one is fully credited on its detail page. Designed to be felt as much as read: era-themed colours wash the screen as you travel, milestones light up along the timeline's spine, and imagery drifts gently as you scroll. A persistent native menu lets you move between Timeline, Art Passport, Compare, and Style Detective. At home on iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape. The full story is free: every chapter, every milestone, every attribution. ArtArc Plus (optional) unlocks unlimited Style Detective rounds, every hotspot pack and Compare pair, and saving Details wallpapers to Photos - with new chapters added in free updates. Available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in Settings. No account. No ads. No tracking. Everything works offline - the whole story ships with the app. Made for the curious. No art degree required. Privacy Policy: https://butterflybombarby.au/artarc/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/