Things That Aren't Perfect Suck

How come Google sucks so much at sorting images? Google is building a digital library whose collection includes every book ever written. That's awesome. Is it too much to ask that this Library of Alexandria in the Cloud include a slide collection?

It's quite apparent to me that it is Google's job to build an online catalogue raisonné for every artist who has ever made artworks. So I'm frustrated that I am not browsing a comprehensive collection of the frescoes of Fra Angelico right this minute. But further I'm baffled that Google isn't even working on it. To my knowledge there is no "artist:Fra+Angelico" search tool in the works to bring me the slides that I otherwise need to find through Amazon or, God forbid, an art school library.

Do I have to look to Bing? Is the problem copyrights? I'm sick of Google Image Search not turning up the image I need but further I'm tired of not having a Google Artist Search. It should be simple, insofar as it is a minor task relative to compiling every book ever written, ever. Just stick the pictures in the cloud already!

Back when I first moved to the District I would go by the art libraries of schools who didn't know me from Adam and bother them into letting me check out slide trays. Back then, anyway, it was an important part of my diet: memorizing slides by artist, by period, by genre. (Today I'm totally lazy.) In any event, it was a needlessly complicated and time-consuming way to go about finding the images I want.

So where is Google Artist Search already?