Au Lit.

I remember being strangely attracted to “Au Lit,” a painting by Édouard Vuillard, when I was at school, which was odd because I find it a remarkably unattractive piece of work. I bought this pottery variation for Mrs. TD’s birthday, more years ago than is good for us to remember, from an artisan potter who had a small gallery in the shopping precinct in Westbury Village, a small piece of suburbia in north  Bristol.
 
The pottery is long since gone, but I still like this little piece and it is one of the “things that make me smile” - which is the theme for this week’s MonoMonday hosted by RedFlash.
 
It is good that RF should want a little humour in her challenge as it is, sadly, frowned on in artistic circles, particularly photography. Strange, as Mozart composed “A Musical Joke,” a very well-known piece that virtually no one can name, and Millais included a touch of whimsy in the bottom right-hand corner of his portrait of Mariana. Then there is the most often asked question of the artistic world, “Why is the Mona Lisa smiling?”