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Have been using this image as a desktop background for close to a year. Have seen it twice recently on tv as prints framed so I'm guessing it's famous.

:dunno: I know no arts.

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RogueJuror
Boy that was quick. :)

Matty what you thought of the Mona Lisa?
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:dunno: I saw it. Images of the Mona Lisa are so widespread that seeing the real painting - with its smallish canvas and faded colors - is not particularly exciting. I managed to take a good picture of someone taking a picture of the Mona Lisa. My Mom was wondering why I was waiting for someone to block the view. I'm doing a photocommentary Mom, kindly stfu.

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Now those famous Picassos are something else. I saw Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at the MOMA in NYC, it's HUGH. And a couple months ago, I saw Portrait of Dora Maar at the AGO here in Toronto. The colors are amazing - what is reproduced as standard yellow on most pictures of it is actually a super-bright greenish neon-yellow in person. I was "starstruck" by this one cause I had a cheap laminate copy of it hanging in my room throughout my teens.

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Yeah for me was nothing. There was a bunch of people that I didn't even bother and I saw it from the back.

I watched a UK docu on forgeries and they showed how a pro forger would go about. Back then they used to use lots of poisonous material for the paints, one wouldn't even be able to source them cause they are ban for public sell now. They showed Girl with a Pearl Earring in HD and the colors on that look real nice.
 
Matty
The NYC MOMA is worth the road trip. Common Stevies.
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That would be awesome, I hear NYC has some of the best galleries and Museums, along with washington D.C.
Haven't been to either since I was really little.
In Bellefonte pa, there is a historic museum (mostly tied to the area) that we used to go to once a month.
The whole town is very historic, I love walking around areas like that.

Common Steven, I think it's about time for a road trip, lets check out something new!
 
RogueJuror
Yeah for me was nothing. There was a bunch of people that I didn't even bother and I saw it from the back.

I watched a UK docu on forgeries and they showed how a pro forger would go about. Back then they used to use lots of poisonous material for the paints, one wouldn't even be able to source them cause they are ban for public sell now. They showed Girl with a Pearl Earring in HD and the colors on that look real nice.
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Cool. Have you been to Muse d'Orsay? Much better experience IMO. The old train station setting is stunning too.

I love the negro busts they have in the central area just past the entrance. All bronze and marble.

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I've always been a Norman Rockwell fan. Every one of his paintings make sense and tell a story. It probably makes me less sophisticated when matched against the Rembrandt and Picasso fans out there but we like what we like.
 
Matty
Cool. Have you been to Muse d'Orsay?
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No, passed by it a bunch of times. It was all very foreign to me and I didn't really found any joy in it and didn't understood other people's attraction. Not just museums but everything touristy I got in the habit to reject. Only been to the Louvre and Museo del Prado. First one cause of the Mona Lisa and the latter cause I lived a 5 minutes walk from it.
 
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I've always been a Norman Rockwell fan. Every one of his paintings make sense and tell a story. It probably makes me less sophisticated when matched against the Rembrandt and Picasso fans out there but we like what we like.
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Rockwell is traditionally considered an illustrator. Though these days that is a species of artist.
I grew up in a town next to his town in MA. A friend of the family bought his house (it's neat, lots of secret passages/rooms). Everyone in my region has a signed "Main Street" print. My mom has several signed APs. This one in our house always scared me:

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