Posted on 11/04/2022 6:49:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
YES! We are just care takers of these irreplaceable works of art. Failure of our generation to protect these items from antiquity mean any punishment is not enough. Governments should announce “you destroy a work of art, we destroy you”.
Hanged after being drawn quartered at public event.
“Those wokesters who destroy these works of art also deserve the death penalty.”
Oh yeah...BIG TIME!
[[They should be placed in solitary confinement in cells with walls decorated with Jackson Pollocks.]]
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They should be placed in solitary confinement in cells with walls decorated with Hunter Biden paintings on the wall
Just cut off the hands glued to the art work and let them go (bleed out) ...
I would go with 100 swats with a rattan cane, like in some Asian countries.
Yes…it is premeditated.
Like the confederate statue vandalizers and the Taliban monument destroyers, people who engage in this type of ruination (a word which perfectly combines ruin and nation) need to be punished. Death is not the answer, however.
I heard Sunflowers was; I’m not sure about Girl with the Pearl Earring.
“If he’d trashed an Andy Warhol, it would still be evil. But honestly, nobody would really much care.”
And no one could tell the difference.
Maybe the art should go on strike.
Radio: Here is the News... by an almost unanimous vote, paintings in the National Gallery voted to continue the strike that has emptied frames for the last week. The man from Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’ said last night that there was no chance of a return to the pictures before the weekend. Sir Kenneth Clarke has said he will talk to any painting if it can help bring a speedy end to the strike At Sotheby’s, prices dropped dramatically as leading figures left their paintings. (Cut to Sotheby’s)
Auctioneer: What am I bid for Vermeer’s ‘Lady Who Used to be at a Window’? Do I hear two bob?
Voice: Two bob!
Auctioneer: Gone. Now what am I bid for another great bargain? Edward Landseer’s ‘Nothing at Bay’.
Venus: All we bloody want is a little bit of bloody consultation.
Radio: At a mass meeting at Brentford Football Ground, other works of art voted to come out in support of the paintings. The vote was unanimous. (they all put their hands up) with one abstention. (cut to close up of ‘Venus De Milo’ )
Death Penalty? Get of it. That implies a trial. If they are caught in the act it should be summary execution as soon as they can be taken to the street. We are in a fight for our lives. Sooner or later people are going to wake up to the fact.
It is, after a fashion, a cultural Pogrom.
If it is not stopped, the art terrorists will cause all great works of art to be removed from public display.
All art was meant to be viewed from a certain perspective and that perspective only is visible if the art itself is physically present. If you've ever stood art the feet of Michelangelo's David in the Academy in Florence and had to crane your neck back to look up at it, or leaned in to put your face just a foot from one of Van Gogh's masterpieces, close enough to see the relief of the gobs of paint smeared on with a palette knife and deliberately left standing out from the canvas, you know the truth of that statement. And it's only under these conditions that you make the connection that this thing you're looking at was crafted by a human hand, and can come to grips with the skill involved.
Did you know that Johannes Vermeer (painter of the Girl with a Pearl Earring) didn't leave brush strokes on the canvas? You aren't likely to ever have known that unless you had seen his work in person.
Having art locked away and only visible through bullet-proof glass or by televised image or hologram will prevent future generations ever having the same visceral connection to it that their forefathers had. And the essence of the art will be lost.
And there's very little can be done that will deter them as effectively as the prospect of losing their life in return for their actions.
Yes. They should be dropped into a septic tank, and then the lid closed.
Yes, as should those destroying statues and monuments in the US.
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