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Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2012, 01:59 AM Aug 2012

Bungled restoration attempt destroys painting.

Bungle? EPIC Bungle

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Bungled restoration attempt destroys painting. (Original Post) Joe Shlabotnik Aug 2012 OP

I love it! And think both Jesus and Duchamp would approve... Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #1

Looks like a job for a can of Glidden Spred Satin to me... jmowreader Aug 2012 #2

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)

1. I love it! And think both Jesus and Duchamp would approve...

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 02:44 PM

Aug 2012

it appears that the woman did it solely out of her love for Christ, and to share that love with her fellow believers.

Of course, Marcel Duchamp would champion her appropriation and "making it new"
Also, if one of the purposes of modern art is "to shock the bourgeois" she certainly succeeded there.

I think it's wonderful.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)

2. Looks like a job for a can of Glidden Spred Satin to me...

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:36 AM

Aug 2012

Just sandblast the wall, paint it tan again and have a trained artist paint another Jesus fresco where this fucked-up one now stands.

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