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Art
- Thread starter TyphooToffee
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I've never see it close up but have heard the painting is quite small and underwhelming.
widnesblue
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The was a railing and guards stood around it but you can get about 5 foot away from it. It’s in a glass case that protects it and it’s not that big. The is far more impressive paintings in the rest of the Louvre. The ones outside for about 10/15 euros on the river Seine are better to look at it.
Abertonian
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Went and saw a very similar Norwegian church in Poland last month. The amusingly named Wang Church. It was moved from its original location and floated down the Oder River through Germany and Poland. Now located in Karpacz near the Czech border. Amazing structure, no nails.I enjoyed the recent series on BBC4, The Art of Scandinavia. I like Andrew Graham-Dixon as a presenter, knows his stuff, and just tells us about the subject without the addition of fancy bells and whistles. Below, a fantastical Norwegian church that was featured in the first episode. Sadly, the ignorant BBC has decided close the channel whilst BBC3 remains.
Yes, I heard the painting was heavily protected. Didn't someone attack it not so long ago? I may be misremembering. It's not a painting that I like much and I've never really been a fan of Leonardo de Vinci in general, to be honest.
widnesblue
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Not sure about it been attacked but I went about 5/6 years ago. Some of the stuff in the Louvre is brilliant but seeing the Mona Lisa in person, it wasn’t when was expecting. It’s worth seeing, especially if in to art.
Did a quick search and found this:
The 'Mona Lisa' has been targeted over the years. Recently a man who seems to have been disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa in Paris. This is the fifth attack the painting has endured in the past 60 years.
Rita_Poon
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Gotta be a performance 'piece'...
Appeared to have been a protest of sorts:
Footage shows the person suspected of being responsible telling bystanders in French: "Think of the planet… there are people who are destroying the planet, think about that … That's why I did it."
Rita_Poon
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I don't know enough about cakes and patisseries to know enough names of them to conjure a pun, but I just know theres one in there...
Abertonian
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The Mona Lisa is a disappointment in real life. The most impressive painting I ever saw in a gallery was Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. It is so luminescent it was like looking at a TV. Found it surprising as I'd always thought it was a dark painting.
Found this picture online, doesn't do it justice though.
Found this picture online, doesn't do it justice though.
Rita_Poon
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The irony being he painted pictures of an America that didn't exist. nice pick.
frank rizzo
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My favourite of his. I've got a smaller copy hanging in my living room.
Former art forger John Myatt did his own version of 'Nighthawks' (below). I always found it amazing that he flooded the art world with a couple hundred forgeries and a lot of them, he says, were made using normal house paints that you'd buy from a DIY store, and nobody noticed.
