Credits
Taide exists because museums share their collections with everyone. Thank you.
Museums
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through its Open Access programme.
- Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki (Ateneum, Kiasma and Sinebrychoff Art Museum), through its open collection data.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, through its Open Access programme. Selected images and collection data are shared under CC0.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, through its Open Access programme. Selected images and collection data are shared under CC0.
Taide shows only works the museums mark as public domain. Photographs of works from the Finnish National Gallery are credited to their photographers next to each artwork in the app. Taide isn't affiliated with or endorsed by these museums.
Texts
Some artwork and artist descriptions are excerpts from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, with a link to the full article.
On this website
The theme pages under Themes credit each painting, its museum and its photographer under the image. The home page uses these works:
- Pekka Halonen, Sunlit Winter Landscape, 1911. Finnish National Gallery, photo Aleks Talve.
- Ellen Thesleff, On the Beach, Forte dei Marmi, 1913. Finnish National Gallery, photo Hannu Pakarinen.
- Victor Westerholm, An October Day in Åland, 1885. Finnish National Gallery, photo Hannu Aaltonen.
- Sanford Robinson Gifford, Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore, 1871. The Met.
- Aukusti Uotila, Fishing Hut, 1883. Finnish National Gallery, photo Kari Soinio.
- Vincent van Gogh, Roses, 1890. The Met.
- Väinö Blomstedt, Lake with Snow on the Shore, 1899–1900. Finnish National Gallery, photo Hannu Pakarinen.
- Albert Edelfelt, Conveying the Child's Coffin (A Child's Funeral), 1879. Finnish National Gallery, photo Hannu Pakarinen.
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Portrait of the German Actor Rudolf Rittner, 1895. Finnish National Gallery, photo Aleks Talve.
- John Frederick Kensett, Lake George, 1869. The Met.
- Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865. The Met.
- Bhawani Das, Great Indian Fruit Bat, ca. 1777–82. The Met.
- John Frederick Kensett, Sunset on the Sea, 1872. The Met.
Colour relay screenshots and recording
The Colour relay page and its homepage introduction use actual Taide captures made on 19 October 2026. They show these public-domain artworks:
- Hugo Simberg, The Wind Blows, 1897. Finnish National Gallery, photo Antti Kuivalainen.
- “The Beggar who Professed his Love for a Prince”, Folio 28r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), dated 892 AH/1486 CE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access.
- Juho Rissanen, Tanners, 1908. Finnish National Gallery, photo Kari Soinio.
The colour swatches illustrate colours visible in the neighbouring artworks. The silent recording shows two manual Next taps in an active Colour relay; its first loading wait has been shortened.
Explore and featured-theme screenshots
The homepage shows actual Taide screens captured on 19 October 2026. The artwork thumbnails are public-domain museum images. The Explore cards include Thomas Eakins, The Writing Master; Peter Monamy, Harbor Scene: An English Ship with Sails Loosened Firing a Gun; and Allart van Everdingen, The First Spring, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access.
The Behind the Mask screen includes:
- André Foy, Naamioita (Masques de clowns). Finnish National Gallery, photo Janne Mäkinen.
- James Ensor, Under the Shadow of Masks. Finnish National Gallery, photo Janne Mäkinen.
- Otto Mäkilä, Two Masks. Finnish National Gallery, photo Hannu Karjalainen.
- Andreas Altomonte, A Masked Ball in Bohemia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access.
Open-source software
The Taide app is built with these open-source libraries, under the Apache License 2.0:
- Android Jetpack (AndroidX Core, AppCompat, ConstraintLayout, Lifecycle, Navigation, RecyclerView, ViewPager2, Room, WorkManager, SplashScreen) and Material Components for Android, by Google
- Kotlin and kotlinx.coroutines, by JetBrains
- Coil, for loading images
- commons-suncalc by Richard Körber, for sunrise and sunset times
It also uses Google's desugar_jdk_libs, under the GNU General Public License version 2 with the Classpath Exception.