The catalogue section of the site now contains "Mona Lisa Visitors 2003", a new series of 23 photographs shot in 15 second intervals in front of Leonardo DaVinci's "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre in Paris this September.
Very spooky painting. I spent a good deal of my time at the Louvre standing in different positions in the Mona Lisa room and her eyes followed me where ever I stood. Gave me shivers.
Posted by: Sian on October 14, 2003 07:50 PMIt looks like the people could care less about Mona. In Just about every picture, they were looking everywhere but at Ms. Lisa.
The Louvre is one of the most fantastic places on Earth.
Posted by: jason on October 14, 2003 09:24 PMLooks like they've done some changes since I was there last. From what I remember the Mona Lisa was in a reasonably small room with dark color walls and the barrier was there also. We were allowed to take photographs but with no flash, naturally being a clutz with a camera my flash went off and I had to scurry out of the room before someone caught me. My visit was on the day that they opened the glass triangle things up.
Posted by: Sian on October 18, 2003 08:12 PMApparently there is a name for the technique of painting eyes where they seem to follow you no matter where you stand in the same room, naturally I've forgotten the name for it but it's something like "Following Eye technique"
Posted by: Sian on December 20, 2003 09:38 AM: )
i like the name even.... "following eye technique" : )