A 'touching' exhibition opens up art for blind visitors
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 04:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Imagine making art come alive with touch. The Prado aims to make art within reach for people who are blind. In a video, Ruben, who went blind in his 20s and is now in his 30s, tells viewers that Estudios Durero, a Spanish group focused on image and digital reproduction processes, called him. They were working on a project of images for the blind with the Prado and they asked him to help. The effort involved a "relief printing" technique that manages to reproduce images for touching.