Sunday 15 January 2023

Glass Onion

I only worked one day while Erika was here, delivering a tour of the Impressionism exhibition for the SwedishLadies group. Purposely scheduled that weekend, so that Erika could come along..! Only less than a month to go now, this might have been the last tour for me.
Here I am, talking about one of my favourite paintings - The Magpie by Claude Monet:


One of the paintings we have shown in this exhibition is the In a café by Edgar Degas, or L'Absinthe, as it's also known as:

Just recently, while watching the latest Netflix murder mystery movie 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery', I spotted this in one of the more pivotal scenes - can you see the painting behind Janelle Monae??


They are using the Degas painting! (Or understandably, a replica of it) How cool is that!
The whole movie in fact is full of amazing artworks, as almost every wall of the mansion of the tech billionaire Miles Bron, one of the main characters in the movie, is covered in one masterpiece or another.

But we can see it for real - at the Louvre Abu Dhabi! What a treat!

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