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10 Famous Works of Art That Were Attacked
Mentalfloss ^ | 7/13/22 | Jane Alexander

Posted on 06/26/2023 11:25:51 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Attacks on art have been in the news fairy often in recent months. In July, climate activists glued themselves to a copy of The Last Supper believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci’s students and scrawled “no new oil” beneath the image, and in May, the Mona Lisa made the headlines when a museum visitor smeared cake all over the protective glass that guards the famous painting. That incident was just the latest in a series of attacks on the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.

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Why do crazy leftists attack great western art?

How come they don't attack Picasso or Pollard?

1 posted on 06/26/2023 11:25:51 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

How is this helping the environment?


2 posted on 06/26/2023 11:45:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DallasBiff
Why do crazy leftists attack great western art?
How come they don't attack Picasso or Pollard?
or a Hunter Biden original?

Their heroes, the islamic state [ISIS], does the same thing.

3 posted on 06/26/2023 11:46:10 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Save the Republic - VOTE TRUMP!!!)
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To: DallasBiff
"How come they don't attack Picasso or Pollard? "

Or Warhol?

4 posted on 06/26/2023 11:48:05 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: DallasBiff
The west . . . America . . . must be erased from everyone's conscience.

Out of sight, out of mind . . . . that's why they pull down statues or move them where they are not seen.

5 posted on 06/26/2023 11:48:58 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: StormEye
Or Warhol?

Lol! he got famous for putting Marilyn Monroe on a Campbells soup can

6 posted on 06/26/2023 11:58:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: nickcarraway

Exactly, that’s what I’d like to know!


7 posted on 06/26/2023 12:05:24 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

8 posted on 06/26/2023 12:56:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DallasBiff
Well some of those are "great western art" and some not so much.

I am sorry but if you think painting dark red strips on a black background is "art" much less great art you need to have your eyes checked.

9 posted on 06/26/2023 1:02:55 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: DallasBiff

How would anyone even tell if a Pollard piece was defaced?


10 posted on 06/26/2023 1:55:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

I still remember decades ago when some crank threw a bottle of India Ink at the Mona Lisa.
Then another who attacked the Pieta with a hammer.

So many cranks hope to get a “SEE ME!” moment doing such things.


11 posted on 06/26/2023 2:43:20 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: DallasBiff
" How come they don't attack Picasso or Pollard? "

If you'd bothered to read the article before posting the question, you'd have seen Mark Rothko's "Black on Maroon" was #10 on the list.

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Any Rothko worth mention is equal in artistic worthlessness to anything ever done by Picasso or Pollard.

Because the CIA monetized abstract art to impressed the Soviets, this piece of crap is valued at $30 million USD.

12 posted on 06/26/2023 5:18:54 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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13 posted on 06/26/2023 6:47:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DallasBiff

I liked it when some German protesters glued themselves to the floor, and the company owners said “OK” and just left them there and turned out the lights.

They started whining about how no one would bring them food or water. (not to mention going PP)

That’s the way to handle those.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 3:04:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: nickcarraway

Ping.


15 posted on 06/27/2023 6:37:41 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: SunkenCiv

Orange County man records video of tourist vandalizing Rome’s Colosseum
by: Eric Spillman, Tony Kurzweil

https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/tourist-caught-on-video-vandalizing-colosseum-wall-in-rome/


16 posted on 06/27/2023 11:54:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow, that guy’s video is really racist microaggression. /rimshot


17 posted on 06/27/2023 1:47:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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