Oil protesters throw soup on the glass protecting Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting

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Vermilion wrote:Must be annoying though for those who travelled a long way to visit the museum in the hope of seeing the painting.

Because it's normally a totally pleasant and unspoiled viewing experience otherwise.

strawberry float art museums.

The angle in that article is quite deliberately obscure, but it's quite obviously behind at least an inch of bulletproof glass.

There is zero downside to this protest besides the usual people crawling out of the woodwork to herald the basically indestructible cultural persistence of one out of literally countless pieces of art, versus the reality of what is happening that will render all of it utterly meaningless.

I suppose they have their reasons for putting thick glass in front of the painting, like if someone throws soup on it.

I think it more likely they are worried about someone walking off with it tbh. Which is essentially how a lot of art ended up where it is, and yet it must remain exactly where it is, because reasons.

The art market at that level goes somewhat beyond cultural asset and more into tax evasion & money laundering.

It's been a popular work of art to attack since the '50s.

1956: Doused in acid

The first attack on the Mona Lisa occurred while she was on display in Montauban in the south of France for an exhibition. A vandal threw acid at the painting, hitting its lower portions. While it sounds pretty intense, it’s unclear whether this resulted in any damage that had to be repaired.

December 30, 1956: Smashed with a rock

In the last days of 1956, Mona Lisa faced her second attack. A homeless Bolivian man named Ugo Unzaga Villegas threw a rock at the masterpiece, chipping some paint off of her elbow — allegedly because he wanted to go to prison so he’d have somewhere warm to sleep, sadly.
The damage to the painting was later repaired, leaving Mona Lisa intact once more — and henceforth she was protected by glass casing.

https://harpersbazaar.com.au/mona-lisa- ... incidents/

Was Neil Buchanan in the Italian version also?

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:

Moggy wrote:

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:

speedboatchase wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Vermilion wrote:Must be annoying though for those who travelled a long way to visit the museum in the hope of seeing the painting.

Because it's normally a totally pleasant and unspoiled viewing experience otherwise.

strawberry float art museums.

The angle in that article is quite deliberately obscure, but it's quite obviously behind at least an inch of bulletproof glass.

There is zero downside to this protest besides the usual people crawling out of the woodwork to herald the basically indestructible cultural persistence of one out of literally countless pieces of art, versus the reality of what is happening that will render all of it utterly meaningless.

I suppose they have their reasons for putting thick glass in front of the painting, like if someone throws soup on it.

I think it more likely they are worried about someone walking off with it tbh. Which is essentially how a lot of art ended up where it is, and yet it must remain exactly where it is, because reasons.

The art market at that level goes somewhat beyond cultural asset and more into tax evasion & money laundering.

It's been a popular work of art to attack since the '50s.

1956: Doused in acid

The first attack on the Mona Lisa occurred while she was on display in Montauban in the south of France for an exhibition. A vandal threw acid at the painting, hitting its lower portions. While it sounds pretty intense, it’s unclear whether this resulted in any damage that had to be repaired.

December 30, 1956: Smashed with a rock

In the last days of 1956, Mona Lisa faced her second attack. A homeless Bolivian man named Ugo Unzaga Villegas threw a rock at the masterpiece, chipping some paint off of her elbow — allegedly because he wanted to go to prison so he’d have somewhere warm to sleep, sadly.
The damage to the painting was later repaired, leaving Mona Lisa intact once more — and henceforth she was protected by glass casing.

https://harpersbazaar.com.au/mona-lisa- ... incidents/

Was Neil Buchanan in the Italian version also?

I genuinely don't know if this is "real" or a photoshop at this point. Hopefully the British mainstream media will jump on it and analyse it to death.