• Woman falls into Picasso artwork, rips it.
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[quote]NEW YORK (AFP) – A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into "The Actor" and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said. The unusually large canvas, measuring 77.25 by 45.38 inches (196 by 115 centimeters), sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15 centimeters) in the lower right-hand corner in the accident on Friday. The museum, located on the eastern edge of New York's Central Park, did not elaborate on why the woman fell. But The Met said the damage did not impact the "focal point of the composition" and that it should be repaired in the coming weeks ahead of a major Picasso retrospective featuring some 250 works at the museum opening on April 27. Repair work should be "unobtrusive," it added. Painted in the winter of 1904-1905, the work hails from Picasso's critical Rose Period, when the artist shifted from the downbeat tones of his Blue Period to warmer, more romantic hues. The period also hints at Picasso's later embrace of abstraction with his signature cubist style. Donated to The Met by automobile heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy in 1952, "The Actor" features an acrobat striking a dramatic pose against an abstract backdrop. It was painted on a used canvas that already contained a painting. [/quote][URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/ts_alt_afp/usartaccidentpicasso[/URL] Seriously, how fucking fat and dumb do people get these days? I'm not an art person, but this is just nuts. Apparently this was a very important piece.
news section much?
[QUOTE=Auster;19842942]news section much?[/QUOTE] Yeah, just let this die. I'll repost. here: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=19842973#post19842973[/url]
So you really can fall for art
Cartoon stylie
[QUOTE=Black-Bird;19842934] Seriously, how fucking fat and dumb do people get these days? [/QUOTE] Because skinny smart people most definitely cannot fall over and rip a piece of canvas.
I'm a fucking walking disaster and I walked through an art museum in Barcelona without destroying anything. And we were there for almost an hour, so it's a miracle by itself nothing was demolished. I guess she just didn't have the eye for art. Or obstacles for that matter.
When I was a kid I fell over a lot of shit. I broke a glass shower door when I was 10 by tripping against it in the bathroom. I at least knew better than to get anywhere near art or delicate displays back then.
beside it being a great work of art, that shit is worth $130 million.
Rap = crap
Oh great now fat people are threat to our Culture and art history aswell
I didn't know they'd let art students within touching range of a painting like that. It'd be like teaching students drivers how to drive in the parking lot of a Ferrari dealership.
[QUOTE=TH89;19843951]Picasso sucks[/QUOTE] [img]http://davidnessle.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/guernica8.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Splurgy;19844767][IMG]http://davidnessle.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/guernica8.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] It seems that donkey is ass raping that bitch.
Gotta remember that picaso was the first artist to really not do portraits and try something against the accepted norm.
Artists impression of what the work looks like now: [img]http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1420/tearp.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Occlusion;19844837]Gotta remember that picaso was the first artist to really not do portraits and try something against the accepted norm.[/QUOTE] Well, not really - that more or less applies to every movement of artists pretty much since the Romantics. [img]http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2008/05/rossetti.jpg[/img]
Picassos art is some trippy shit
I hate abstract art. It's pointless.
It's a painting. Deal with it.
Picasso would be [i]torn to pieces[/i] if he were still alive.
Too bad The Met won't give me snow.
that museum must have been a [b]rip[/b] off
How do you fall and break a painting if it's on the wall? And if it was a Picasso piece, wouldn't it be surrounded by one of those velvet rope things?
[QUOTE=Vince323;19845990]How do you fall and break a painting if it's on the wall? And if it was a Picasso piece, wouldn't it be surrounded by one of those velvet rope things?[/QUOTE] Wouldn't be enough, they're too close to actually stop someone from tripping
[quote]Painted in the winter of 1904-1905, the work hails from Picasso's critical Rose Period, when the artist shifted from the downbeat tones of his Blue Period to warmer, more romantic hues.[/quote] Analyzing art this way is just huge faggotry
If it was worth $130 million, why didn't they put it behind some glass?
[img]http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8747/awesomehighres.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;19845433]I hate abstract art. It's pointless.[/QUOTE] Then you, sir, are an uneducated swine who fornicates with donkeys. :colbert:
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;19845433]I hate abstract art. It's pointless.[/QUOTE] Picasso wasn't an abstract artist
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