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Thieves steal fake Munch artworks
BBC ^ | Aug 3 2005

Posted on 08/03/2005 8:09:29 AM PDT by george wythe

Masked thieves in Norway have stolen what they thought were three Edvard Munch paintings - but which turned out to be worthless copies.

Two unarmed men burst into Oslo's Hotel Continental, threatened staff and removed three pictures from the walls.

But the hotel had swapped the originals with duplicates after two real Munch works were stolen from the Munch Museum in the city almost a year ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; crime; edvardmunch; munch; painting; theft
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1 posted on 08/03/2005 8:09:29 AM PDT by george wythe
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Munch's The Scream is still missing after being stolen last year

2 posted on 08/03/2005 8:10:19 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: george wythe
Thief reacts to stealing fake Munch paintings...


3 posted on 08/03/2005 8:13:36 AM PDT by Minnesocold (Truth itself is the one enemy against which liberalism cannot prevail. -Christopher Adamo)
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Ahhh...one person's art (the scream) is another's portrait of Howie Dean. Too bad the later has gone missing...


4 posted on 08/03/2005 8:15:05 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: george wythe
The Vampire

(Edvard was a strange man)

Melancholy


5 posted on 08/03/2005 8:15:39 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Minnesocold

LOL


6 posted on 08/03/2005 8:15:59 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: in hoc signo vinces



oops should have been "hasn't"


7 posted on 08/03/2005 8:16:23 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: franksolich

Ping


8 posted on 08/03/2005 8:24:07 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("If not us, who? And if not now, when? - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 68 grunt; Amityschild; beckysueb; Born Conservative; Charles Henrickson; cinives; ...
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9 posted on 08/03/2005 8:27:03 AM PDT by franksolich (support "Andy's Law" for open and honest internet fund-raising)
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To: Minnesocold
Nice rendition the thieves' scream.

Somebody is the proud owner of a few color photocopies.

10 posted on 08/03/2005 8:33:18 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: george wythe

I read the headline and figured someone had drank another glas of arctic water.


11 posted on 08/03/2005 8:39:03 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: in hoc signo vinces

I remember a couple of posts here on FR that Munchs paintings aren't art because "art has to be beautiful". Like this pics of angels holding fallen soldiers or angels praying with deceased presidents that always get posted here.


12 posted on 08/03/2005 8:46:56 AM PDT by floridarolf ("Den Sozialismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf." - Erich Honecker, 1989)
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I wonder if they use the same criteria when it comes to literature... only "happy" stories are worthy of reading.


13 posted on 08/03/2005 8:51:08 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: floridarolf

IMO art doesn't have to be beautiful (though I think Munch's stuff is) - but at a bare minimum it does have to express whatever it expresses without having to be "interpreted" by a coterie of soi-disant intellectuals.

That flag-in-a-toilet garbage from the other week - that was Art. It expressed crassness, stupidity, treachery and poverty of intellect in one simple image, impossible to miss. I didn't like it or what it expressed - but it was what it was.


14 posted on 08/03/2005 8:55:49 AM PDT by agere_contra
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Munch's stuff is art, no doubt...but it's been used to portray Howard Dean so often within FreeRepublic...that it has become the man's (Dean) protrait. IMHO.


15 posted on 08/03/2005 8:58:13 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: agere_contra

OK.

It's art. So what?

It also is ugly and repulsive. Bad colors, bad style, "childish-looking" and doesn't appear to require any talent (if you can reproduce a copy that can be mistaken for the original, the original isn't very complex!) to make, and can be beat by any number of middle-school band students.

But, what does it imply that the Norwegians have been displaying FAKE pictures for years, but nobody was "good enough" to notice?

I'd rather paint the walls with white.


16 posted on 08/03/2005 9:03:16 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: floridarolf

I remember the thread & I was one of those who said I did not like Munch's work. I know I didn't say it wasn't art, though I may have left that impression.


17 posted on 08/03/2005 1:13:48 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: george wythe

I love this story. Crime does not pay!! I wish they got shot in the neck.


18 posted on 08/03/2005 5:39:04 PM PDT by tomjohn77
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To: GoLightly

Art is all about who is lucky to get their name out to the people. Picasso wasnt that great either. Its just stupid.


19 posted on 08/03/2005 5:46:37 PM PDT by tomjohn77
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To: franksolich
Hey! Do own that picture? NO??? I swiped one of yours too. LOL!!!

Sue me...LOL!

20 posted on 08/06/2005 7:45:23 PM PDT by JLO
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