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What Famous Artworks Have To Look At All Day

What Famous Artworks Have To Look At All Day

What Famous Artworks Have To Look At All Day
Danielle de Wolfe
15 January 2015

It's a tough life being a world-famous piece of art. You don't get to move, you have no privacy, and every day thousands of strangers gather round to stare at you and criticise.

A piece of art gets looked at constantly, yet we never consider what it would be like were the roles reversed; that is, until this extremely clever Tumblr was founded.

It's called What They See, and has only been running for a few days, yet has already posted an excellent selection of 'painting-eye-view' photographs, all taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Take a look at a selection below - some have been luckier than others with their vantage points.

[via Gizmodo]

Herakles the Archer by Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer by Edgar Degas
The Vine by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
Night by Aristide Maillol
Reclining Nude by Amedeo Modigliani
Marsyas by Balthasar Permoser
Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves by Rembrandt van Rijn
Marble bust of a youth by Unknown
Study of a Young Woman by Johannes Vermeer