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Monet Painting Seriously Damaged in National Gallery

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  • #62
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    A blurred Painting .A photo that looks like that would be quickly discarded .The only feature is it's price on the market otherwise it's just another blurry picture among many .


  • #63
    LaVail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    got my mind on my monet and my monet on ma mind?


  • #64
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,502 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    cymbaline wrote: »
    I was in the art gallery recently and did wonder what the story was regarding security. It struck me when looking at the Caravaggio. That all there was in the room was a little metal cordon running along the walls and a bloke sitting on a chair. Naturally you'd not be able to pick any of the paintings off the wall and run out the door but you could do damage.

    It is saddening though that there might come a day when you can't just walk into a room and be able to look at these wonderful paintings just hanging there on the walls.

    Art galleries are all like that though. They allow people to get up close to priceless objects to appreciate them. Generally people know how to behave in galleries.


  • #65
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Braylon Blue Azimuth wrote: »
    I'm not artistic at all, but I often wondered why artists painted like that instead of a clear scene to look at.

    Art would get pretty boring if no-one ever tried to do anything differently :)

    Personally I would hate for art galleries to be forced to display their works behind glass. It does add to the experience to actually see the works up close. Even if they can get the painting restored, the fact that it has been damaged will knock a few hundred thousand (at least) off its value.


  • #66
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    they should have these paintings encased in a breakproof type of plastic resin glass and an alarm system attached,so they can still see the painting but impossible to touch it..


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  • #67
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    paddyandy wrote: »
    A blurred Painting .A photo that looks like that would be quickly discarded .

    Claude Monet didn't have his Photoshop blur-reduction tool available to him at the time unfortunately. It was the 19th century after all.


  • #68
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    paddyandy wrote: »
    A blurred Painting .A photo that looks like that would be quickly discarded .The only feature is it's price on the market otherwise it's just another blurry picture among many .

    Okay, who had 62nd post in the first-philistine book?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #69
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    It was a disgrace really, very disappointed it happened at all. I like art and paintings, hopefully it be able to be restored. I love some of Monet's paintings and many others. Shame that it happened really! Love his painting style. Really captures the moment of the picture. Sadden that such a thing would happen to such a lovely painting. Often enjoyed visiting the National Gallery.

    That sort of thing wouldn't happen in the Lourve!


  • #70
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    This is kind of off topic but why does the RTE website have the same video twice? One is from Six One News and the other is from the nine o'clock news but the only difference is they're introduced by two different newsreaders who say the exact same thing.


  • #71
    stek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭stek


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    This is kind of off topic but why does the RTE website have the same video twice? One is from Six One News and the other is from the nine o'clock news but the only difference is they're introduced by two different newsreaders who say the exact same thing.

    What's your point?


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  • #72
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    stek wrote: »
    What's your point?

    What's your point?


  • #73
    Seanchai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Seanchai


    Ara sure it was only taking up space. You could build a two-bedroom apartment in that space (with its own door) and make more money. You can't stop progress, as they say. We need to get the economy going again, everybody, so get on board!


  • #74
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's the punishment for something like this?

    I assume it must be a fairly severe punishment/sentence for someone who deliberately destroys something in this manner?

    He should be hung


    (gets coat)


  • #75
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Worst drought in Somalia in 60 years, 750,000 expected deaths with nothing much being done about it and as soon as a painting is destroyed then "the world is going mad."
    The mind boggles.


  • #76
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Personally, I think this guy is a hero. We all know Monet is the root of all evil.


  • #77
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    All that Monet could have taken quite a few off the hospital trolleys . 30 million for a blurry pic.


  • #78
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    paddyandy wrote: »
    All that Monet could have taken quite a few off the hospital trolleys . 30 million for a blurry pic.

    Ok, we get it that you know nothing about the subject. Why keep posting in this thread?


  • #79
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Naomi00 wrote: »
    Ok, we get it that you know nothing about the subject. Why keep posting in this thread?

    I KNOW THE NAME OF THE GAME IN THE ART WORLD THAT'S WHY (and i hate it .)


  • #80
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Dr.Strange wrote: »
    Gillo wrote: »
    You'd want to be a right dick to damage an art work but I find that post very offensive towards people with a genuine mental illness.

    How come?
    The best way I can put it and genuinely no pun intended, you are painting a lot of people with the same brush. I know a lot of people who suffer from various mental illness's and not one of them would do something like this. Just because someone suffers from an illness doesn't mean they are going to carry out an act if vandalism.

    Perhaps the person in question just didn't like the picture or wanted to add their own interpretation? Maybe it was just a random act of vandalism?


  • #81
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    He must have watched too much of that "Art Attack" program on BBC.


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  • #82
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Sheer Indignation at €30 million for a Blurry picture could drive a rational person to commit such an act especially if he himself is struggling financially with a mortgage and family matters .Not necessarily insane at all .


  • #83
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    paddyandy wrote: »
    Sheer Indignation at €30 million for a Blurry picture could drive a rational person to commit such an act especially if he himself is struggling financially with a mortgage and family matters .Not necessarily insane at all .
    A rational person would know that damaging a unique painting would not solve their financial problems, would not be a valid protest for anything as it would turn most people against them, and would realise that it's the tax payers who will probably foot the bill for the restoration work and increased security.

    So no, it wasn't the work of a rational person.


  • #84
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    paddyandy wrote: »
    Sheer Indignation at €30 million for a Blurry picture could drive a rational person to commit such an act especially if he himself is struggling financially with a mortgage and family matters .Not necessarily insane at all .

    No. I don't think it would. If you attact an inanimate object because it's worth money you're not a rational person imho.


  • #85
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    paddyandy wrote: »
    I KNOW THE NAME OF THE GAME IN THE ART WORLD THAT'S WHY (and i hate it .)

    No you actually haven't a clue. The fact that you keep calling it a "blurry picture" proves that.


  • #86
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    paddyandy wrote: »
    I KNOW THE NAME OF THE GAME IN THE ART WORLD THAT'S WHY (and i hate it .)

    No you actually haven't a clue. The fact that you keep calling it a "blurry picture" proves that.
    In fairness it is a picture and it's blurry, it was more than likely the intention of Monet to painted in a blurred style so it is an accurate description.
    Is it a work if out standing quality? I'd say it's a nice painting but not a work of genius.


  • #87
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    paddyandy wrote: »
    Sheer Indignation at €30 million for a Blurry picture could drive a rational person to commit such an act especially if he himself is struggling financially with a mortgage and family matters .Not necessarily insane at all .

    Twas probably drugs Paddy........ or perhaps TV........... video games even?


  • #88
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    its monetary value makes it important


  • #89
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    M cebee wrote: »
    its monetary value makes it important

    And the fact that it's irreplaceable


  • #90
    DDC1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,398 ✭✭✭✭DDC1990


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    And the fact that it's irreplaceable
    I think his joke went over your head :P

    Unless I've completely missed a hillarious art pun in your comment.


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  • #91
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    VEN wrote: »
    i still think the person saw something in the painting that was coming to attack them, like a demon coming out of the water, they didn't like it so tried to kill it.

    Are you saying that... Monet talks?


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