[quote][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52003000/jpg/_52003147_gauguin224x299.jpg[/img]
A woman who attacked a painting by Paul Gauguin hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC said the French artist was "evil", court records show.
Susan Burns pounded Two Tahitian Women and tried to rip it from a gallery wall on Friday, officials said.
The 1899 painting, which depicts two women's bare breasts, was behind a plastic cover and was unharmed.
She was charged with attempted theft and destruction of property and is being held pending a mental evaluation.
On Friday afternoon the accused slammed her hands against the plexiglass cover between the canvas and the frame.
'Beautiful, mysterious women'
A museum security officer intervened and detained her.
Ms Burns, 53, from Virginia, told police she thought the painting should be burned, according to court records viewed by the Associated Press news agency.
"I feel that Gauguin is evil," she was quoted as telling police.
"He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual."
The 94cm by 75.4cm (37in by 30in) oil-on-canvas painting is on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
It is expected to go back on display on Tuesday morning, National Gallery spokeswoman Deborah Ziska told the BBC.
The work depicts two serene, golden-skinned Tahitian women offering a bowl of flowers.
"The painting captures Gauguin's mythical idea of Tahiti as a paradise of beautiful, mysterious women," museum curators write.
The incident was the first act of vandalism at the museum since the 1970s, when over the course of about five years, one man destroyed a Renaissance-era chair and another defaced 25 works, including by Renoir and Henri Matisse, with a "sharp object", Ms Ziska said.[/quote]
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dem evil breasts!
Susan Burns pounded Two Tahitian Women
Since the image macro is forbidden without writing any words, I shall contribute to all facepunchers that
I am facepalming to that woman.
Women have breasts?!
[QUOTE=Sanius;29000782]Women have breasts?![/QUOTE]
Ofcourse they don't, the painting is surrealistic.
I can see why she wanted to destroy that painting.
Simply from looking at that small image, I am overcome with lust and perversion and have raped my neighbor's dog.
It is an abomination against the Lord.
[editline]5th April 2011[/editline]
PS: Gauguin did 9/11.
A.Analrapist, that is all.
B.She's a tard.
Wow she really is rather uncultured.
[quote]"He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's[B] very homosexual.[/B]"[/quote]
What?
[quote]"He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual."[/quote]
This woman is homosexual, strongly advised not to be nude, and is bad for children.
Sometimes I think these people do this to make the rest of us look bad, when really I have never met someone that crazy. That or you know, she was fucking crazy.
[QUOTE=The mouse;29001307]What?[/QUOTE]
She's probably just a homophobic catholic, in all honesty. It seems like it.
all straight women are homosexual, lol.
Drop kick her in the face.
Thats what i would do.
[quote][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52003000/jpg/_52003147_gauguin224x299.jpg[/img][/quote]
Maybe she thought it was homosexual because she's played FF13?
[IMG]http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7543/4059588822c307489199.jpg[/IMG]
Also: "Oh no, a [i]nipple[/i]! How horrible!"
[QUOTE=Last or First;29001446]Maybe she thought it was homosexual because she's played FF13?
[img_thumb]http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7543/4059588822c307489199.jpg[/img_thumb]
Also: "Oh no, a [i]nipple[/i]! How horrible!"[/QUOTE]
I remember the L'cie mark checkups in FF13, funny times.
I'm guessing she's either religious or conservative in some way.
There are over 3 Billion women on Earth that is very Homosexual.
Delete Earth.
[quote] is being held pending a mental evaluation [/quote]
Understandable, but I don't understand why members of the Westboro Baptist Church for example don't face similar ordeals considering the things they say on protests are just as, if not more, insane than what this woman has.
Somebody has to stop that painting before it comes alive and homosexulates our children
Oh no! Breasts! My mind has been soiled.
[quote=Madwoman]"He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual."[/quote]
From now on no two people of the same gender are to stand within twenty feet of one another or they are to be deemed homosexual.
I wonder if she gets offended by anatomical renderings too?
[QUOTE=s0beit;29002692]Somebody has to stop that painting before it comes alive and homosexulates our children[/QUOTE]
Word of the year 2011: to homosexulate.
Think an extra a sounds better though, like 'homosexualate'.
[QUOTE=avergejoe;29002938]I wonder if she gets offended by anatomical renderings too?[/QUOTE]
[i]This vagina clearly labelled on this chart with the vulva and the clitoris shouldn't be in this book! I mean, Children can read it![/i]
[QUOTE=Shadowstone;29001391]She's probably just a homophobic catholic, in all honesty. It seems like it.[/QUOTE]
She's from the South, which probably means she's a homophobic baptist. Get your stereotypes straight!
[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;29000504]Susan Burns scissored Two Tahitian Women[/QUOTE]
Fixed. :v:
I've never understood how nudity is "bad" for anyone.
[QUOTE=CommieTurtle;29003282]I've never understood how nudity is "bad" for anyone.[/QUOTE]
Porn addicts.
[QUOTE=CommieTurtle;29003282]I've never understood how nudity is "bad" for anyone.[/QUOTE]
Because people are taught that nudity is bad.
Hey lady
[img]http://www.newsbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/900-moobs.jpg[/img]
Get a load of these bad boys
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