Mine was a Taiwanese coffee shop that had a huge print of Guernica emblazoned across one wall. It wasn’t any kind of statement, just a touch of fine art to give the place that fancy touch.
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I don’t understand anybody who has a copy of Guernica in his office. They wouldn’t have Goya’s Series Negras because they’re depressing, but Guernica “oh, the decorator put it there.” I think it’s a good thing I’ll never be in an office that’s gone through a decorator’s hands, as the decorator might get punted through the window.
There was a bar which had modern reproductions of Las Meninas everywhere. About 3/4 of the cups had Meninas prints or modern-Meninas ones; there were several modern Meninas pictures on the walls. It was almost a decor theme but no, the owner’s wife just happens to like them. It was one of those bars which have a floor that looks like it hasn’t been washed since the place was built, barely enough light to ensure people don’t run into that faux-marble plastic-coated column in the middle and only two possible tapas (the tortilla de patatas looked like it might hail from Velazquez’ time).
This is not quite the same thing, but my former workplace had the series of engravings “Industry and Idleness” (by William Hogarth) on the walls of one of the conference rooms. There’s nothing wrong with that, but…the prints were in a random order! That used to drive me nuts, but I never had the guts to sneak in alone and rearrange them.
How likely is it that they were originally in the correct order until someone surreptitiously rearranged them in order to see how long it would take for someone to notice?
I would’ve swapped them for “A Harlot’s Progress” or “A Rake’s Progress” or “The Four Stages of Cruelty” and see if anyone notices.
Agnolo Bronzini’s painting Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time contains Cupid’s foot, which Terry Gilliam copied and manipulated for the animated opening sequence of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (It’s the big foot that comes down at the end of it).
My university has a huge reproduction of Guernica by the entrance to its library. Is that OK?
Dunnow, do people raise their eyes while reading/studying directly into a picture whose official name is “The Horrors of War”?
That might make sense in a Amnesty International office, I guess, but then so would “the executions of May 3rd”. I can see someone having that or any other picture there because they like it / find meaning in it /whatever (and like the example I just gave it could even be motivational), what I absolutely don’t get is “the decorator put it there”.
No, it’s outside the library. You have to walk past it to reach the Institute for Holocaust Research.
Well, I received an email attachment that was a copy of Mona Lisa. The caption read, “Press Space Bar.”
When you pushed the space bar, the front of her dress dropped down, and you saw boobies.
I then noticed something. When women looked at that picture, they just held the space bar down for a moment, no longer.
Men held the space bar down FOREVER.
Both men and women laughed.
~VOW
Not fine art by any means but I used to walk on my way to work past a cafe that had a huge reproduction of this image of Augusto Pinochet filling an entire wall. I’ve always wondered what that was about. Was the cafe owner an unabashed Pinochet supporter? Or did they just think it looked macho? Whatever it was I never frequented their business, so I never got to find out.