A popular lady.

[fuzzy]

[LEE]

I'll see your popular lady and raise you a very popular lady.

No prizes for guessing.

[fuzzy]

LEE. I have seen your Popular Lady. I got a far better view of my Popular Lady!

[Andrij]

I was expecting pictures of Thatcher. 

 

[robgul]

I'll see your popular lady and raise you a very popular lady.

No prizes for guessing.

First time* I saw this painting it was there just hanging on the wall with all the others ...only a a rope barrier!   It's now almost invisible behind all the security stuff.

... and here's a suggestion for the Louvre - if they put this painting and the Venus de Milo right by the door it would be much easier for the tourists, save them having to wander round all the other stuff (and then to get confused as the painting is actually called something else)

Rob

* must have been about 1958 

[rogerzilla]

First time I went to Stonehenge you could go and sit on the stones, and it wasn't the solstice and I wasn't a hippy.

[Basil]

First time I went to Stonehenge you could go and sit on the stones, and it wasn't the solstice and I wasn't a hippy.

Yes, I remember doing that as a young man.  (and again.)

Apparently, in Victorian times (so just a little before my time) there was a stall where visitors could hire little chisels and hammers so that they could help themselves to souvenirs.   

[Adrian]

They just had to go too far and spoil it for everyone

[Jaded]

Aren't you allowed to pee on Stonehenge any more? 

[Basil]

Aren't you allowed to pee on Stonehenge any more? 

Is that where Charlotte's compost heap is then? 

Could she not have found somewhere a little more local?

[Regulator]

"It's a local henge for local people..."

[Mr Larrington]

I was expecting pictures of Thatcher. 

 

I was expecting Victoria Pendleton

[clarion]

First time I went to Stonehenge you could go and sit on the stones, and it wasn't the solstice and I wasn't a hippy.

First (and second and third) time I went to Carnac, you could wander freely among the stones.  It's sad to see them fenced in.

[LEE]

I'll see your popular lady and raise you a very popular lady.

No prizes for guessing.

First time* I saw this painting it was there just hanging on the wall with all the others ...only a a rope barrier!   It's now almost invisible behind all the security stuff.

... and here's a suggestion for the Louvre - if they put this painting and the Venus de Milo right by the door it would be much easier for the tourists, save them having to wander round all the other stuff (and then to get confused as the painting is actually called something else)

Rob

* must have been about 1958 

What makes me laugh and the reason I took that photo is the almost total lack of interest in the far more impressive paintings in the room.

The Mona Lisa is singularly unimpressive when confronted by the works nearby.

[nuttycyclist]

...
What makes me laugh and the reason I took that photo is the almost total lack of interest in the far more impressive paintings in the room.

The Mona Lisa is singularly unimpressive when confronted by the works nearby.

I'd agree.

When we went there we were lucky (actually Mrs Nutty is a friggin genius and planned it well) in that we got to the Loo when it opened and were able to walk directly to the Moaning Lisa and spend some time looking at it.

We then had a bit of a meander looking at the other paintings, which were ok (artwork doesn't really float my boat unless it's raining and there's no better place to shelter out of the weather).

I was amazed when we wandered back to leave at just how big the queue was of people solely there to look at that one painting.

[clarion]

The value of art is not just as representation, but as a signifier.  Thus, there is more meaning in the Mona Lisa's existence for most people than there is in the painting itself.  There is a sort of personal validation of seeing it.  Most people wouldn't even consider going to the Louvre and not seeing the most famous item in the collection.

[LEE]

The value of art is not just as representation, but as a signifier.  Thus, there is more meaning in the Mona Lisa's existence for most people than there is in the painting itself.  There is a sort of personal validation of seeing it.  Most people wouldn't even consider going to the Louvre and not seeing the most famous item in the collection.

But that means it's become famous for being famous.  It's Jade Goody.

Although Jade Goody's no oil painting.

[clarion]

Mona Lisa = Jade Goody.  I like that.

[Tourist Tony]

[tabloid scrote]Same gob on it.....[/ts]

[fuzzy]

Another view of her-

[Regulator]

Another view of her-

Eye, eye - she's doing a Nelson.