Reflections on a supermarket car park

Part of the Art Is Everywhere scheme on the side of out local supermarket. I had seen there were supposed to be a couple here, but hadn't spotted them until today. This advertising unit is actually the one furtherest from the entrance and I saw that the display unit nearer the entrance was one of those rolling ones, which displays a series of different adverts, and I'd just not been looking at it when it was displaying an art work. There are supposed to be 22000 works of art (or at least reproductions of works of art) on commercial advertising spaces this month as part of the scheme. Actually, there are only 57 different works on display. There was a vote to find the top fifty, but there was a tie for 50th place, hence 57. Here two characters in Ford Madox Brown's The Last of England seem to look out at the car park. The painting depicts two emigrants leaving England, painted in the 1850s. I wonder if I'll see any more of the art on display before the scheme finishes.

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