Milo BRAND + INTERFACE SYSTEM V1.2
06Art

The artist matters.

Fifty-two works with object-level rights from the Art Institute of Chicago, The Met, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Each shows the original and, on request, a Milo interpretation. Never the other way round.

WORKS 52INSTITUTIONS 04RIGHTS Public domain / CC0MANIFEST assets/art/manifest.json
Thomas Cole's The Oxbow: a storm clearing over the Connecticut River valley, wilderness on the left, cultivated fields on the right.
Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm — The Oxbow 1836 · OIL ON CANVAS · THE MET 08.228 · PUBLIC DOMAIN CC0 · SHOWN UNTREATED

Wilderness on one side, cultivation on the other, and the painter in the corner deciding which way to look. Stewardship, stated without a slogan.

Church's Twilight in the Wilderness: a vermilion and gold sky burning over a dark wooded valley.
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness1860 · CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 1965.233
Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath: a woman washing a child's feet in a basin, seen from above.
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath1893 · ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1910.2
Rembrandt's etching The Three Trees: a stand of trees on a rise under a storm-scratched sky.
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Trees1643 · ETCHING · ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1938.1811
Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day: figures with umbrellas on a wet Haussmann intersection.
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day1877 · ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1964.336

Original first. Interpretation on request.

Every work above is shown exactly as the institution published it. Nothing here is a Milo treatment — that is a choice a person makes, one work at a time, below. An artwork without its artist is decoration, and decoration is the one thing this system forbids.

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The collection06.2

Fifty-two works, and what Milo would do with each.

The index to the exhibition. Choose a work to see the original and the interpretation side by side, with its full record.