I love the restored version; I think it's a lot more interesting than the original. Reminds me of Francis Bacon.
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Anti-Art and non-intentional art are some of my favorite genres of work. This piece is a fantastic example of both. The idea that her adoration drove her to preserve it, yet her act defaced it is a beautiful duality. My sis and I call these ladies 'Craft Cows'. To think that a craft cow condemned a priceless treasure to folk art doom is just so great!
Actually, this whole thing is hilarious. We can only smile and hope that the 80 year old lady is not too embarrassed. It's not a historically important work, and really the whole thing is funny.
Humor comes from the idea of some amateur trying to paint over a masterpiece, like maybe the Mona Lisa in a Naked Gun movie. And the paint job just looks so... unskilled.
But it's no tragedy because this was not a priceless treasure. At most a few hundred bucks worth, maybe a few thousand at most. Leave the poor lady alone.
Actually, this whole thing is hilarious. We can only smile and hope that the 80 year old lady is not too embarrassed. It's not a historically important work, and really the whole thing is funny.
Humor comes from the idea of some amateur trying to paint over a masterpiece, like maybe the Mona Lisa in a Naked Gun movie. And the paint job just looks so... unskilled.
But it's no tragedy because this was not a priceless treasure. At most a few hundred bucks worth, maybe a few thousand at most. Leave the poor lady alone.
At the least empathize with the granddaughter of the artist who had already paid for a restoration of the painting. I imagine she's not too happy.
Actually, this whole thing is hilarious. We can only smile and hope that the 80 year old lady is not too embarrassed. It's not a historically important work, and really the whole thing is funny.
Humor comes from the idea of some amateur trying to paint over a masterpiece, like maybe the Mona Lisa in a Naked Gun movie. And the paint job just looks so... unskilled.
But it's no tragedy because this was not a priceless treasure. At most a few hundred bucks worth, maybe a few thousand at most. Leave the poor lady alone.
I was thinking Mr. Bean myself. But I've been laughing about this since I read the article an hour ago. The look on her face when she stopped scrubbing and realized...Oh dear Jesus; where's Jesus?!
Or the opposite of panic. She just BOMBARDS this fresco with confidence. Steps away with a smudge of red paint on her nose, tip of the brush in her mouth. "Nailed it." And muppet Jesus is staring back at her.
It sucks that a skillful bit of antique work got destroyed, but there are far larger tragedies in this world than a bit of destroyed art. It's one of those things.
Funny, Actionandy, I was also actually thinking of Mr Bean, but I drew a total blank on his name, could only get his face and the name Atkinson... So after racking my brain for a second or two, i didnt bother to google. I went with Naked Gun and the Nielsen guy form Forbidden Planet whose name I can't remember either.
I too was belly laughing at the idea of this lady enthusiastically giving a "Nailed it!" after producing this... this... finger painting.
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That just made my day. Wow, just wow! I wish they'd let me paint on it next.
Perhaps they should charge members of the public to repaint the image every week until they gather enough funds to get the art professionally repainted in the likeness of the original.
It's just an unfortunate event. The destruction of an antique picture is an unfortunate mistake and a crime, not some kind of horrendous violation of art or religion.
It doesn't look close to the original, but this was an elderly woman. Try squinting your eyes. It looks pretty close to the original if you squint your eyes. So possibly, with her potential bad eyesight, she thought it looked good as new.
I don't think "LOL" could hold a candle to my reaction to the painting.
I don't like the original or the new one and couldn't give the slightest care to their worth, but for how hard that made me laugh.....priceless.
Honestly, with all of the bad looking things that people say is objectively good art, you could have told me the restored painting was the original and I wouldn't have doubted you.
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Or the opposite of panic. She just BOMBARDS this fresco with confidence. Steps away with a smudge of red paint on her nose, tip of the brush in her mouth. "Nailed it." And muppet Jesus is staring back at her.
Ha! That was a good one. Almost makes me want to create a meme with those two words slapped across that image.
While it is sad that the original was lost, it's funny that people want her to "fix it" now. How in the world is she going to do that? She's an 80-year old amateur who's given you the best she's got already. As Andy said, you got Muppet Jesus. If you let her go at it again, you'll probably just have a picture that's various brown smudges with two black eyeballs peering out.
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LOL. I prefer the original work, but this is an interesting redo that will stimulate interesting interpretations. Hate that this has been in the news for longer than it has. I don't like trivial news.
If I could, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall and watch this thing unfold, as though a study of, I dunno, human behavior or something.
Tough times for Spain, eh? Hopefully the storm will soon subside, and the calm will soon follow.
Wow the finished product doesn't even look close. It looks like a spider monkey.
That's exactly my first impression was, too, "it looks like a monkey." I give this some time to become a meme, though. It's a real shame, but it's too funny about the sheer stupidity of it all.
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An old woman tried to restore a fresco and ruined it.
This blows my mind.
They clean old guns and coins. something you should never do anyway.
she probably ruined a million dollar item.
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Humor comes from the idea of some amateur trying to paint over a masterpiece, like maybe the Mona Lisa in a Naked Gun movie. And the paint job just looks so... unskilled.
But it's no tragedy because this was not a priceless treasure. At most a few hundred bucks worth, maybe a few thousand at most. Leave the poor lady alone.
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I was thinking Mr. Bean myself. But I've been laughing about this since I read the article an hour ago. The look on her face when she stopped scrubbing and realized...Oh dear Jesus; where's Jesus?!
Or the opposite of panic. She just BOMBARDS this fresco with confidence. Steps away with a smudge of red paint on her nose, tip of the brush in her mouth. "Nailed it." And muppet Jesus is staring back at her.
I too was belly laughing at the idea of this lady enthusiastically giving a "Nailed it!" after producing this... this... finger painting.
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Perhaps they should charge members of the public to repaint the image every week until they gather enough funds to get the art professionally repainted in the likeness of the original.
Ow ow ow ow ow... hollleeeee crap.
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Honestly, I would have thought this was The Onion or something, a joke instead of what a botched attempt at restoration actually looked like.
How unfortunate.
I don't like the original or the new one and couldn't give the slightest care to their worth, but for how hard that made me laugh.....priceless.
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Ha! That was a good one. Almost makes me want to create a meme with those two words slapped across that image.
While it is sad that the original was lost, it's funny that people want her to "fix it" now. How in the world is she going to do that? She's an 80-year old amateur who's given you the best she's got already. As Andy said, you got Muppet Jesus. If you let her go at it again, you'll probably just have a picture that's various brown smudges with two black eyeballs peering out.
If I could, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall and watch this thing unfold, as though a study of, I dunno, human behavior or something.
Tough times for Spain, eh? Hopefully the storm will soon subside, and the calm will soon follow.
That's exactly my first impression was, too, "it looks like a monkey." I give this some time to become a meme, though. It's a real shame, but it's too funny about the sheer stupidity of it all.
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