[Casie]

I was surprised by your post! Thanks for sharing that! Its fascinating to think that Mona isn't as impressive in person.

On the other hand, I never really appreciated the impressionists paintings by Monet, Van Gogh, Degas... until I saw a collection of them at the Sheaves Of Wheat show in Dallas. I was blown away by the scale and color and complete unedited enthusiasm of the brush strokes. I just had no idea! Dorm room posters and internet pictures just can not show you the wild colors, the thickness in which the layers of paint are applied and the dizzying motion that the textures create! And I'm the type of girl that usually just says things like, "Nice picture. I like that frame." Haha!

[Ditter]

There is a circular room in a famous Paris art museum not the Louver (can't think of the name right now) and the walls, floor to ceiling, are all Monet's waterlillies all around the room. It is so fabulous, it took my breath away.

[a fool in paradise]

. I was blown away by the scale and color and complete unedited enthusiasm of the brush strokes. I just had no idea! Dorm room posters and internet pictures just can not show you the wild colors, the thickness in which the layers of paint are applied and the dizzying motion that the textures create!

Internet is killing appreciation of music and artworks (paintings, drawings, photos).

And fewer people seem to be using their hands to create (photoshop can it for them and instagram "has so many EFX!!!").

Yes, size does matter, viewing things as thumbnails on a laptop or on an iphone is no substitute.