• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      18 days ago

      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.

      • modus@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        You can look at it right after you watch the video of those New Year’s fireworks from 2019.

        • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          18 days ago

          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!

    • Siethron@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      I don’t understand why people take pictures of the mona Lisa. Professional photos of it exist online.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        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

        • Nycto@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          I also like to take pictures of art from alternate angles, which works better for sculpture than paintings.