Hype
I saw lots of great art while in Paris. Most of it was not the hyped up work that They say you should see. This was as close to the Mona Lisa as I could get. What makes this painting so sought after by tourists everywhere? Is it really that great? I'm not saying that it is bad. It is certainly a master work executed by a master painter, but so are the paintings that you run by to get to this one. For instance, the Madonna Of The Rocks had a dirty and dusty glass over it that obscured the already darkening painting. I think that the Mona Lisa was moved recently so that it is in a more singular location. The Louvre had planned on doing this for crowd control, but they moved up the project for The Da Vinci Code filming that I believe was happening while we were there in Paris. (We were diverted from walking through one of the streets towards the opera house by a big ol' film crew driving a car back and forth until we were bored watching.) So now all those who don't read books will see the movie and rush to the Louvre to do The Code Tour. Butt here I am, a tourist, complaining about other tourists blocking my pictures. Maybe that is the real art.
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