Europe is full of public and museum art which range from awesome to awful. Some art just seems to demand creative participation--at least from me. Here, we are in Grasse, in Southern France, where we actually stayed a night at the great house of Admiral de Grasse (who saved the American Revolution by teaming up with Washington to defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.) And here is a really silly, pompous statue of the good admiral next to his house. It's like playing "Whose Line is it Anyway"! (In the last photo, Nate replayed the ET scene in which ET touches the boy's chest with his finger.)
And here we are at the Louvre, joining a Babylonian procession of servants rubbing their hands before the king. (I wanted to mimic the Gilgamesh statue in which he has a lion in the headlock, but none of my family would agree to be headlockee or headlocker.)
This is the Doge's palace in Venice. It turned out that Doges were the favorite artistic subject of the Doges. They were everywhere. This guy had the most impishly expressive face. I hope you can blow this up to see it. We suggested all kinds of captions for the photo. Suggest your own!
Ummm...only in Paris. Brennan and I were pleasantly startled to see this serenely confident gentleman positioned adjacent to the Pantheon. What could we possibly add to the humor of the scene? We gaped at the...art? Then hung out for about 10 minutes watching the reactions of passers-by. Hilarious! Many posed for photos. If I lived in Paris, I'd eat lunch here every day.
Also at the Louvre, Brennan mimics the expression of a very, very, very old greenish frog-lion. So, which face is cuter?
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