Woman defaces famous Louvre painting with black pen
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PARIS — A woman has defaced Eugene Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" with a black marker as it hung in an outpost of the Louvre gallery in northern France.
Police arrested a 28-year-old woman on Thursday for writing "AE911" across the bottom of a painting so closely identified with the French Republic that its image once graced the 100-franc note and it has been reproduced on postage stamps.
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Is that the original
What is wrong with people
I've always thought this since I learned about the louvre when I was younger, if the paintings are just sitting there in the open all it takes is one asshole with a can of paint to permanently ruin it.
Wow man, a piece of priceless art massacred because some mongo cunt thinks 9/11 was done by the government.
Well played retards, well played.
What a bitch.
Why don't museums put the paintings behind a thin glass shield?
Thankfully it can be removed.
Now that is true art. She's giving a new, unique meaning to a painting she didn't feel was worth the praise it gets. It's so avant garde. I don't see why people have a problem with this.
She should've drawn a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;39529550]Now that is true art. She's giving a new, unique meaning to a painting she didn't feel was worth the praise it gets. It's so avant garde. I don't see why people have a problem with this.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the thread where this aspiring artist went to a mesuem and trashed a painting, while calling it his own special artistic take and everyone in the thread defended him because no one else can understand the "real meaning of art"
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;39529550]Now that is true art. She's giving a new, unique meaning to a painting she didn't feel was worth the praise it gets. It's so avant garde. I don't see why people have a problem with this.[/QUOTE]
You know that she probably didn't put any thought into it, right?
It's like taking a shit and then having a guy come along and talk about how your shit is a statement about how society rejects people and washes them away.
Woman defaces famous Louvre painting with black pen - Becomes instant modern art hit
[QUOTE=Ogopogo;39529543]Thankfully it can be removed.[/QUOTE]
I sure hope so. It looks like such a nice painting.
They need to put their goddamn unique paintings behind glass.
She's a 911 truther, and this is her shitty way of advertising for [I]Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth[/I]
[QUOTE=The mouse;39529599]She should've drawn a mustache on the Mona Lisa.[/QUOTE]
Salvador Dali sort of already did that
[img]http://www.mus.ulaval.ca/lacasse/cours/Seminaires/Oeuvre/Images/Dali-Self-Potrait-as-Mona-Lisa-1954.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.mus.ulaval.ca/lacasse/cours/Seminaires/Oeuvre/intertextualite.htm[/url]
Here's a bunch of parodies/references of Mona Lisa by rather known artists, also a bunch of other paintings that were remade by other artists etc.
[QUOTE=kimr120;39529734]They need to put their goddamn unique paintings behind glass.[/QUOTE]
no they don't. they varnish the paintings instead.
[QUOTE=mac338;39529745]She's an [I]idiot[/I][/QUOTE]
FTFY
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;39529717]Guillotine her.[/QUOTE]
At least 5 years and life probation. More if she tried to run.
[QUOTE=kimr120;39529734]They need to put their goddamn unique paintings behind glass.[/QUOTE]
Watching a piece of art behind glass is not the same as having it right in front of you. Reflections on the glass are already enough to fuck up your perception of the painting.
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[QUOTE=Rubs10;39529683]I sure hope so. It looks like such a nice painting.[/QUOTE]
The varnish used at the time was pretty fucking effective. The people in charge of keeping paintings clean pretty much just had to scrap the varnish away where the painting had been defaced and apply new varnish instead.
[QUOTE="Article"]The Louvre confirmed on Friday it had managed to save the painting as the black marker had not penetrated the upper layer of varnish and has been successfully removed.[/QUOTE]
Oh, thank goodness. I love that painting.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;39529770]Watching a piece of art behind glass is not the same as having it right in front of you. Reflections on the glass are already enough to fuck up your perception of the painting.
[editline]9th February 2013[/editline]
The varnish used at the time was pretty fucking effective. The people in charge of keeping paintings clean pretty much just had to scrap the varnish away where the painting had been defaced and apply new varnish instead.[/QUOTE]
Yah but these days the risk is so high. The incident involving Michelangelo's amazing statue, "The Pietà," comes to mind, where some mental guy came in and began smashing pieces of marble off the statue with a hammer, damaging the shit out of it.
If I had a famous, pricey piece of artwork in a museum somewhere, I'd want it behind glass or something to.
Yeah, Why isn't there some glass or something over it?
Damn, I remember studying that painting. Freedom, the woman, leading every social class, to the poor, to the rich, together and as one bring the revolution and finally have a democracy. Ruined for some 9/11 accident. Who else would like to nuke people like that vandal?
damaging any thing old, no matter how pretty or what it's purpose was for, always pisses me off
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