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Thank you for all your entries. Very hard to choose but I have managed to create a podium.

Bronze; Eider 12;
Are Shakespearean works a little disheartening?

Silver; Fiery 21
Is Tolkien's "Middle Earth?

Gold goes to Jon with his excellent;
Pieces of Bacon, perhaps, consumed by Friar Tuck!

Congratulations Jon! Your prizes;

How ancient art influenced modern art;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9RrO0dtu5M

Street art optical illusions;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJBND0M9ts

And finally some very unusual art;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWPdqI0-sE

Congrats Jono and thanks paul
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I think there's a lot of "Emperor's new clothes" about "modern art". It's mostly awful (as were the examples shown here). Mind you, I would extend that criticism to Shakespeare as well!

And I stopped watching the second clip when the caption described "Grant's" as "whiskey" - it is, of course "whisky"!

Congrats Jono- excellent!
Thanks to Paul for hosting

nice one jono, obvious winner in my book. Thanks paul.

Excellent Jon. Thanks Paul.

Many thanks Paul, much appreciated. Enjoyed the challenge and the clips.

Francis Bacon is the gift that keeps giving, see WPR 299 in which he appeared in a clue for MEAT.

Cheers all,
Ttfn!

Thanks Paul and well done Jono.

Well done Jono - many thanks Paul.

Well done Jono, and thanks Paul for hosting

[The whisky one reminded me of the story of the young American guy picked up paralytic in an Edinburgh street. After a night in the cells to recover, the DesK Sergeant asked him how he got in that state.
"I thought I ought to try every whisky associated with my family"
"What's your family called?"
"Glen"......]