The Grand Tour
Discussion
I had a day off today and thought I would go and check out the National Gallery’s Grand Tour Exhibition.
http://www.thegrandtour.org.uk/
They have commissioned copies of paintings and hung them in the streets of London. I wanted to check it out as I was keen to see how people were interacting with the paintings (many seemed not to notice them at all!) and also it’s rare that you get a chance to photograph works of art and almost never in these unusual settings. I made it round 30 of the 44 before I got fed up of getting wet but I’m quite pleased with the results. It was great to see that none of them had been vandalised!
http://www.thegrandtour.org.uk/
They have commissioned copies of paintings and hung them in the streets of London. I wanted to check it out as I was keen to see how people were interacting with the paintings (many seemed not to notice them at all!) and also it’s rare that you get a chance to photograph works of art and almost never in these unusual settings. I made it round 30 of the 44 before I got fed up of getting wet but I’m quite pleased with the results. It was great to see that none of them had been vandalised!
Thanks guys 
It was really tough trying to get people into shot as they all moved out of the way when I held the camera up. Luckily the guy with the beer agreed to move back again when I asked him 
Classic moment today, I was walking along camera in hand (with flash on top) and realised Timothy Spall was walking towards me, he spotted the camera and gave me a smile, I smiled back and walked on. He looked very disappointed that I didn't Pap him Strange thing was I saw Christopher Fairbank about 30 mins later, I wonder if there was an Auf Weidersahen Pet meeting going on.
It was really tough trying to get people into shot as they all moved out of the way when I held the camera up. Luckily the guy with the beer agreed to move back again when I asked him Classic moment today, I was walking along camera in hand (with flash on top) and realised Timothy Spall was walking towards me, he spotted the camera and gave me a smile, I smiled back and walked on. He looked very disappointed that I didn't Pap him
Strange thing was I saw Christopher Fairbank about 30 mins later, I wonder if there was an Auf Weidersahen Pet meeting going on. KB_S1 said:
Absolutely brilliant.
Was it an enjoyable day out?
It's a great day out, It took me about 3 hours to get round 30 though. It's a bit or a treasure hunt for some of them which added to it. Was it an enjoyable day out?
Another amusing incident took place when I popped into the nearest pub in a shower for a pint, it was an O'Neals. These two Americans came in and said they had never been in a pub and didn't know what to do
Well, you drink beer it's quite easy! Then they asked the barman how many hundreds of years old the pub was. "We've been open for 11 years" was the reply 
Thanks guys. Gemm you were right, the print out guide is wrong!
No jaunty angles
It seemed only right to go back and finish the job that I started. The paintings round Covent Garden are much closer together so it was quicker to get round. There was some controversy over Monet’s Water Lily Pond. Art imitating life imitating Art. Between the site survey before the painting was mounted and it being mounted the council gave a licence to a street trader to sell Banksy canvases on the same plot, so these now sit in front of the Monet. Banksy himself has vandalised a Monet before releasing a version of the same paining with a shopping trolley dumped in the pond.
No jaunty angles
It seemed only right to go back and finish the job that I started. The paintings round Covent Garden are much closer together so it was quicker to get round. There was some controversy over Monet’s Water Lily Pond. Art imitating life imitating Art. Between the site survey before the painting was mounted and it being mounted the council gave a licence to a street trader to sell Banksy canvases on the same plot, so these now sit in front of the Monet. Banksy himself has vandalised a Monet before releasing a version of the same paining with a shopping trolley dumped in the pond.
Gemm said:
nick_bbb said:
Gemm you were right, the print out guide is wrong!
[geek hat on]Sorry to be real pain again, but it's Titian, not Titan.[geek hat off]. I was particularly pleased with Philip IV of Spain and the pregnant woman smoking in front of the bathing beauty (which also disgusted me).
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