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.
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
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.
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 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.
first time ive ever seen a line spanning multiple floors was at the mona lisa.
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
Oh I’ve seen that ass!
And, yes! It’s the wedding feast painting, thank you!
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
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.
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!