Social:Destination painting

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Short description: Painting that inspires cultural tourism
A crowd at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris

A destination painting or bucket list painting is a painting that in itself may inspire cultural tourism to a museum or other destination.[1][2][3] Often such a work would be considered a "masterpiece". A more general characterization would be destination art.[4]

Role in museums

Collections may adopt a policy to keep a destination painting permanently on location, where visitors can expect to see it, by preventing any loan to a travelling exhibition.[5] They may also compete to acquire a potential destination painting during an art auction.[1][6]

Such paintings can lead to overtourism in parts of a museum where the work is displayed, leading to challenges in exhibit design.[7][8][2][3][9][10] This overcrowding can be exacerbated by modern social media photography.[11] The tendency toward a crowded quick experience for major works has had a reaction in the more contemplative "slow art" movement.[12]

See also

  • List of most expensive paintings
  • List of most-visited art museums
  • Starchitect

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Boucher, Brian (2012-07-26). "Dallas's Maxwell Anderson Covets Rediscovered Leonardo" (in en-US). https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/maxwell-anderson-dallas-leonardo-58963/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Farago, Jason (2019-06-06). "A Noisy Half-Hour With van Gogh's Masterpiece" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts/design/starry-night-museum-of-modern-art.html. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Farago, Jason (2019-11-06). "It's Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/arts/design/mona-lisa-louvre-overcrowding.html. 
  4. A guide from Phaidon Press which focuses more on contemporary installation art. "Destination Art: 15 Permanent Public Artworks Worth Traveling the Globe to Experience" (in english). http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/destination-art-15-permanent-public-artworks-worth-traveling-the-globe-to-experience. 
  5. "Girl with a Pearl Earring Banned from Travel" (in en-US). 2014-07-21. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-banned-from-travel-64360. 
  6. Booth, William (2006-06-20). "The $135 Million Klimt Portrait With A Rich Background" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/06/20/the-135-million-klimt-portrait-with-a-rich-background/cd05641f-0a93-4779-b6f2-9e3ff424b610/. 
  7. Lowrey, Annie (2019-06-04). "Too Many People Want to Travel" (in en). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/crowds-tourists-are-ruining-popular-destinations/590767/. 
  8. Nayeri, Farah (2019-08-12). "Want to See the Mona Lisa? Get in Line" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/arts/design/mona-lisa-louvre.html. 
  9. "Uffizi, accustomed to taming crowds, looks to outbreak's end" (in en). https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/uffizi-accustomed-taming-crowds-outbreaks-end-70243264. 
  10. Buckley, Julia (2 March 2021). "Italy has a new way to combat overtourism" (in en). https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/uffizi-diffusi-tuscany-galleries-overtourism/index.html. 
  11. Reyburn, Scott (2018-04-27). "What the Mona Lisa Tells Us About Art in the Instagram Era" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/arts/design/mona-lisa-instagram-art.html. 
  12. Rosenbloom, Stephanie (2014-10-09). "The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/travel/the-art-of-slowing-down-in-a-museum.html.