Clever idea from Holland

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[TD]The Rijks museum in Holland had an idea:


Let's bring the art to the people and then, hopefully, they will come to see more - at the museum.


They took one Rembrandt painting from 1642, “The Night Watch,”


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and brought to life the characters in it,


placed them in a busy mall and the rest you can see for yourself!


http://www.youtube.com/embed/a6W2ZMpsxhg?feature=player_embedded


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Yep they did that one well. .

It was to advertise the re opening of the museum after a major renovation. .
 
I wonder what the faces of the mall executives were like when the idea was first proposed to them...

"explain this again...you want to do WHAT??"

fabulous idea....
 
If they did that in Walmart, by all accounts no one would bat an eyelid. :icon21:


If they did it in the UK, all the armed response police teams from about a 200 mile radius would converge. :o
 
We have some freedom over here…. But a thief has to be caught. Come to visit Holland in the summer and make a boat-trip near Amsterdam and visit a smart-shop the Dutch wiet and than visit the Rijksmuseum. Don't taste "paddo's" because it makes you hallucinate and don't eat "space cake" because you go sick in your hotel room. The painting of de Nachtwacht is still very impressive. Most disturbing thing to me is that they once did cut a part off (left side) that is never been found again. Perhaps something for making a film about that missing part.
 
A smart shop is where you can buy your soft-drug-stuff. But we agree over here that the force of stuff that is listed in "soft", is not so soft anymore as when it was listed.

@Peter

The painting was originally bought by the city of Amsterdam and they had found a good wall in the city-house. But the wall was about 80 cm shorter so the the painting was shortened to take a part off on the left. Nobody knows what happened with that part. I have to look for information what was posed on that part.
 
Just found that they made a tv-play about the 4 missing parts. But in 2006 a hear-play was released in 4 languages in a CD-box with 3 CD's. When you visit the Rijksmuseum you can investigate the content of the missing parts. As I saw that they did a specific printing-session of "De Nachtwacht" with a new printer that can reproduce the curved and 3D shapes of the painting-layers. I think it should be a good idea to reproduce the missing parts and expose it beside the original painting.
 
Whether they do choose to visit the museum or not, I think it's great that they're then able to see art that they wouldn't otherwise get to see every day.
 
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