In May last year, you might remember that I brought a little classical beauty into the lives of my work colleagues when I anonymously gifted the Mona Lisa to the men’s toilets on the third floor.
I was under no illusion that this artwork would be permanently displayed, and so it was little surprise that, after ten or eleven months, it vanished without warning, leaving an empty frame to greet toilet-goers once more. To be honest, I was pleased it lasted as long as it did.
My quest to bring culture to the workplace has not ended there, though. No, it continues, with renewed vigour. Since the Mona Lisa was taken down I’ve chosen to assume that the Toilet Overlords at work aren’t keen on renaissance realism, so my latest contribution is something more abstract.
For gentlemen on their way to their most personal ablutions, I now proudly present Piet Mondrian’s Composition London 1940-42.
13 comments on “More culture in the workplace”
Excellent work. And it looks so much like London that I can see where you used to live (obviously not where you live now, it’s not Composition France) just there in that white bit at the bottom left.
Didn’t you stand there once and discover a whole new part of Chris’ oven that he didn’t know was there before? I was there for that. A monumental occasion.
Yes, the oven drawer is there in the original painting, it’s just that the frame isn’t designed for this type of artwork and obcures the bottom edge.
I wonder how long it will be before some heathen comes and dislodges your efforts. Is it gone yet?
No, still there as I type. I had a wee about an hour ago and I admired it on the way there. I’m happy to take requests for the next one.
Could you commission a lovely coloured drawing of Malcolm McDowell meeting up with Terence Stamp and Roddy McDowell and all of them trying to work out if they’re the same person?
Do you have any preference who I commission it from? It’s just that my budget for this is fairly limited.
I’m happy for whomever you like. As long as they can capture the likenesses, and more importantly the similarities, of the aforementioned actors.
That might be a problem on the budget I’ve got available for this commission. How about I commission a lovely coloured drawing of an apple or a very sketchy camel?
How sketchy a camel are we talking here?
Pretty rough. It would be unclear how many legs it had, and from a distance it would be easily confused for a tapir or mongoose.
That’s the best kind of camel. Ones that know how many legs they have are a liability, I don’t trust them.
Very few camels have even the first idea how many legs they have. Most camels just coast through life never bothering to count their limbs at all, like a bunch of total losers.