There ’s a unspoiled chance that more people would ‘ get ’ and perchance even learn to apprize art if it did something more virtual for them . Van Gogh ’s Starry Night could serve up as a nightlight , for example , and Seurat ’s A Sunday Afternoon could double up as an air freshener , just like DaVinci ’s Mona Lisa is now afunctional paries clock .
earlier design by Constantin Boym back in 1987 as an art art object itself , this update version of his renaissance clock is now just $ 35 — cheap enough for anyone to attend on their walls . The clock ’s shorter inglorious hand counts off the hours , while the prospicient minute hand feature a slice of the Mona Lisa ’s face so that at the top of every hour the famous house painting becomes whole again . At noonday and midnight , with the hour hand hidden , you might in reality fool someone into thinking it ’s a genuine transcript of the original chef-d’oeuvre . [ Kikkerland ]
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