I felt this way about seeing the mona lisa. It’s like 50cm wide, and behind glass, and not that interesting… but there were probably 200 people crowded in front of it all looking at it through their phones.
Exactly - I’ve got a really shitty memory. I’d take a photo so that in 5 years time I’ll get a reminder from my photos app - hey, on this day 5 years ago you were in The Louvre.
Did you see the painting in the other side of the room the Mona Lisa was in? We I went there it was a gigantic and beautiful buffet with dozens and dozens on people. The whole time in the room I was looking the opposite way to her lol
That would be The Wedding Feast at Cana. Another pretty impressive one is The Intervention of the Sabine Women, most well known for having a dude posing with his cheeks out
I’m so confused. what’s going on? We’ve got naked folks, fighting, children on the ground, is that lady in white trying to hold the two men back? What in the world.
I can’t imagine any of those photos are coming out well either, so I don’t understand the point. I can see a selfie or a picture of your family in front of it, but I’m never going to look at a phone pic of a framed painting behind glass at a distance.
You just reminded me - somewhere I’ve got a video of my oldest kid seeing his first fireworks. Don’t think he was even toddling yet, and his grandmother was holding him.
I don’t think he even has any memories of her when she was still lucid, I need to dig that out!
I can’t imagine doing it for something like the Mona Lisa, but I take plenty of other paintings to get the painting and plaque in one shot, so after I can look up the names of painters I liked and hadn’t heard of.
Munch’s The Scream actually does kind of merit taking a picture, though. At least for the Munch Museum in Oslo, he made a ton of different versions on cardboard or paper bases that can’t hold up to extended exposure to light, so the ones on display get rotated every half hour or so. There’s also another version of it a short distance away in the National Museum, so it could be fun to compare all the different versions you can catch.
I felt this way about seeing the mona lisa. It’s like 50cm wide, and behind glass, and not that interesting… but there were probably 200 people crowded in front of it all looking at it through their phones.
It’s almost like performance art or something.
I don’t understand why people take pictures of the mona Lisa. Professional photos of it exist online.
The point is to show to others that you stood in front of something famous, the painting itself is of no value to these people
I also like to take pictures of art from alternate angles, which works better for sculpture than paintings.
Not always. Most photos I take are really just intended for future me. A few of them have famous things I care about.
Exactly - I’ve got a really shitty memory. I’d take a photo so that in 5 years time I’ll get a reminder from my photos app - hey, on this day 5 years ago you were in The Louvre.
What a coincidence. My memory is also really shitty.
Mines not, I can see a picture online.
Did you see the painting in the other side of the room the Mona Lisa was in? We I went there it was a gigantic and beautiful buffet with dozens and dozens on people. The whole time in the room I was looking the opposite way to her lol
That would be The Wedding Feast at Cana. Another pretty impressive one is The Intervention of the Sabine Women, most well known for having a dude posing with his cheeks out
The Louvre has two paintings with that name it seems, but I’m guessing it must be this one (this is the other one).
I’m so confused. what’s going on? We’ve got naked folks, fighting, children on the ground, is that lady in white trying to hold the two men back? What in the world.
Romans robbed the women of the Sabines and their fathers want to fight the Romans but the women stop them
Right? Old paintings kick so much ass.
Oh I’ve seen that ass!
And, yes! It’s the wedding feast painting, thank you!
I can’t imagine any of those photos are coming out well either, so I don’t understand the point. I can see a selfie or a picture of your family in front of it, but I’m never going to look at a phone pic of a framed painting behind glass at a distance.
You can look at it right after you watch the video of those New Year’s fireworks from 2019.
You just reminded me - somewhere I’ve got a video of my oldest kid seeing his first fireworks. Don’t think he was even toddling yet, and his grandmother was holding him.
I don’t think he even has any memories of her when she was still lucid, I need to dig that out!
Nice. Glad I could help. Hopefully it was a video of him and not the fireworks!
I can’t imagine doing it for something like the Mona Lisa, but I take plenty of other paintings to get the painting and plaque in one shot, so after I can look up the names of painters I liked and hadn’t heard of.
Munch’s The Scream actually does kind of merit taking a picture, though. At least for the Munch Museum in Oslo, he made a ton of different versions on cardboard or paper bases that can’t hold up to extended exposure to light, so the ones on display get rotated every half hour or so. There’s also another version of it a short distance away in the National Museum, so it could be fun to compare all the different versions you can catch.
first time ive ever seen a line spanning multiple floors was at the mona lisa.