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| sensorium |
| quote: | Vandals punch hole in Monet in Paris museum
By Sally Peck and agencies
Last Updated: 2:31am BST 09/10/2007
Vandals have broken into the Musée d'Orsay and punched a hole in Claude Monet's "Le Pont d'Argenteuil", in the latest in a series of attacks on artwork in France.
A surveillance camera caught a group of four to five apparently drunk people entering the Paris museum early yesterday morning.
An alarm sounded and the group fled, but not before putting a four-inch tear in the painting, Christine Albanel, the French culture minister, said. No arrests have been made so far.
After attempting to force open other doors, the intruders managed to get in through a back door, "even though it had big bolts," Ms Albanel said. The painting was hanging on the ground floor with other Impressionist masterpieces.
The painting has been left with a horizontal tear that exposes threads of canvas. It was visibly punched in, perhaps with a fist. The minister said the painting can be restored, but said she deplored the damage.
"It's always a heartbreak when an art object that is our memory, our heritage, that we love and that we are proud of, is victim of a purely criminal act," she said.
"We know there were four or five people, likely four boys and a girl, who entered around midnight to am, broke a door that was, perhaps, fragile."
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Alarms went off, museum officials arrived and the group fled, the minister said.
"Le Pont d'Argenteuil" shows a view of the Seine at a rural bend, featuring a bridge and boats.
The break-in occurred as Paris held White Night, an annual all-night festival, which draws thousands into the streets for music, exhibitions and revelry.
The festive mood was particularly high on Saturday night after France advanced to the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup after beating New Zealand.
The attack was the latest in a series of acts of art vandalism.
This week Sam Rindy goes on trial for damaging a work of art after kissing an immaculate white painting by American artist Cy Twombly while wearing glossy red lipstick. The work had been on display in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon.
In September thieves stole plates and chalices from a cathedral in the southern French city of Perpignan.
In August Monet's "Cliffs near Dieppe" was among four paintings stolen from a fine arts museum in Nice.
In February a court upheld a suspended prison term for a vandal who used a hammer early last year to attack Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" - a urinal - at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Sourz |
This is probably a repost seeing the increase of articles being posted lately in this area, specially by josh4. Comical how some people don't know what to do when they're drunk.
Here are a couple of images, which accompany the article cited and to avoid the obligatory 'pics or stfu':
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| Marc Summers |
| I think this is a very heinous crime. |
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| echosystm |
it sucks and everything... but tbh, i don't really care. i don't have an appreciation for paintings. most of them look like they were painted by a 3 year old and frankly idgaf about the story behind it.
if someone tore a 4" hole in eric prydz i would be pissed though. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
it sucks and everything... but tbh, i don't really care. i don't have an appreciation for paintings. most of them look like they were painted by a 3 year old and frankly idgaf about the story behind it.
if someone tore a 4" hole in eric prydz i would be pissed though. |
I'm pretty sure there have been quite a few guys that have tore a 4" hole in Eric Prydz. In some cases, up to 6"! |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
This is probably a repost seeing the increase of articles being posted lately in this area, specially by josh4. Tragical how some people don't know what to do when they're drunk. |
Fixed. Although I think it's nice push the limits further and further (in art), there's no reason, purpose, or substance that could explain that. |
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| blacknoizybox |
| i'd punch the picture too!! |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I'm pretty sure there have been quite a few guys that have tore a 4" hole in Eric Prydz. In some cases, up to 6"! |
:stongue:
Outstanding.  |
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| Aristronica |
| first of all, that art museum has no business hosting priceless works of art if a bunch of drunk idiots can just "get in through the back". |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
first of all, that art museum has no business hosting priceless works of art if a bunch of drunk idiots can just "get in through the back". |
But the door had "big bolts"!
Good God, big bolts, man! |
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| Aristronica |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
But the door had "big bolts"!
Good God, big bolts, man! |
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| UglyDave |
just that we're on the subject of art - a lad in my hometown won an all ireland competition recently.
he's only 19, and this is the painting:
it's a bit small, but i saw a full size pic in a local exhibition.
i dont appreciate art, but this pic was absolutely fantastic.
thought i'd share. |
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