Lunchtime Photo

Kevin DrumNovember 16, 2023 – 12:30 pmNovember 15, 2023 – 9:55 pm7 Comments

This is the first bronze cast of Rodin's "The Kiss," now displayed outside the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. The crowd in the background is from the Paris 10K run, which was finishing up when I took this picture.

7 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”

cld November 16, 2023 – 12:45 pm at

Crowd is all discretely looking away.
1. Steve_OH November 16, 2023 – 1:47 pm at
  
  Discreetly as well.
  1. cld November 16, 2023 – 2:05 pm at
    
    !
    
    I have only just now realized those were discrete words.
    
    I am going to have to take a walk.
D_Ohrk_E1 November 16, 2023 – 4:17 pm at

OT: It's an awful shame you haven't gone back to your child vaccination post to correct it.
D_Ohrk_E1 November 16, 2023 – 4:41 pm at

OT2: GPT-4 Vision is going to be crazy useful, handing more power to polymaths and shifting employment towards front end devs/designers away from back-end devs.
kenalovell November 17, 2023 – 12:08 am at

Disgusting. Ron DeSantis has ordered schools to remove all copies of this from their libraries.
Toofbew November 17, 2023 – 1:08 pm at

There appears to be a lot more going on there than just a kiss. The marble version of this sculpture is better, imo.

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