daniel-blazquez / pintura

A content-driven Apple iPad Objective C native app that explores visually the history of pictorial art in Spain

pintura, an iPad app

A content-driven iPad app that explores visually the history of pictorial art in Spain The app Pintura helps the reader understand the evolution of painting in Spain, from prehistoric cave painting to 20th century surrealism. The content of Painting is suitable for children, students, and any person interested in gaining a deeper knowledge of Spain’s rich artistic history.

Native iOS Objective C app

Some libraries used extensively are:

• Core Text (helped by the awesome CoreTextWrapper library http://akosma.github.io/CoreTextWrapper/)
• Core Data (helped by Magical Record as described by Ray Wenderlich https://www.raywenderlich.com/56879/magicalrecord-tutorial-ios)
• Quartz Core animation

UX

The user navigates through an inital screen that takes him to the different periods in the history of pictorial arts in Spain. From there, each period is treated as an independent section that starts with a historic context, and different chapters taking the reader through the main painters, paintings, and techniques of the period.

Each historical period is accompanied by a historic context

Picasso excerpt

El Greco excerpt

Selected paintings offer interactive features to learn about the details