
What Painters Said Before Commencing their Famous Paintings
Da Vinci to Mona Lisa – Make up your mind girl, are you frowning or smiling?
Michaelangelo to the Pope – Three months on my back up there is going to cost you.
Da Vinci to those at the last supper - Come on now all smile,
Judas take that shifty look off your face.
Johannes Vermeer on the Girl with the Pearl Earring – Come on everyone
all check the floor for the other one.
Salvador Dali on the Persistence of Memory – I can’t be doing with these plastic clocks,
and someone turn the heating down.
Edvard Munch on the Scream – Come on now there’s no need,
take your hands away from you ears.
Sandro Botticelli on The Birth of Venus – She’s stood in a shell here,
can someone get her a stool to stand on?
Vincent Van Gogh on Sunflowers - Haven’t we got anything other than sunflowers?
Someone stick a rose in there will you.
Grant Wood on American Gothic – Why have I got Albert and Mary holding a pitchfork
dressed in their Sunday best?
Vincent Van Gogh on his self-portrait – Why the hell did I cut off that ear?
Whistler on Whistler’s Mother – Haven’t you got any colourful clothes Mother,
what about a nice red frock?
L S Lowery on Going to the Match – Now listen, I want you all to bend forwards
as if there is a strong wind at your back.