Posted on 04/04/2011 7:40:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A painting by Paul Gauguin on loan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a gallery-visiting woman on Friday who repeatedly struck the work of art while screaming ‘this is evil.’
According to other gallery-goers and security personnel the woman attempted to tear the painting down from the wall and thrashed the painting with her fists. Luckily, a clear plastic covering surrounding the work of art protected it from the assault.
'She was really pounding it with her fists. It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn't expect at the National Gallery,’ Pamela Degotardi, a witness to the incident, told The Washington Post.
The 1899 painting, Gauguin’s ‘Two Tahitian Women,’ depicts two native women carrying fruit and flowers, one with both breasts exposed, the other with one exposed.
The assault on the work of art was thwarted when the unidentified woman was reportedly tackled by another gallery –goer – reportedly a social worker from the Bronx.
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Breasts evil?! No way!
Oops, I didn’t size the image. Abuse hit for comment deletion.
Thankfully, I recently upgraded to a 56k modem ... I will have the image downloaded by Wednesday ... :)
Don’t delete!
They are the perfect size.
Oh well...
width=200 or so is usually pretty good for most
Nice picture. Silly to take offense at a native cultural style of dress.
Gauguin’s paintings of Tahiti are evil. They are essentially a lie.
The Tahiti he painted did not exist at the time he painted them...........
This type of moral absolutism must be really wear a person out.
This type of moral absolutism must really wear a person out.
You can also use % as a width, that way you don’t have to guess.
Width = 50% will get you half a screen.............
“width=200 or so is usually pretty good for most”
That was about the size of each nipple on my post.
LOL!
She was probably wild-eyed crazy and all worked up before she even went in.
Unidentified? Did she wear hijab?
You know, that’s the first thing that came to my mind, which may explain why she hasn’t been identified?
Of course, it could just turn out to be some random crazy person. I think DC is full of them.
I remember seeing the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in 1990. At the time one was only separated from it by a low railing and anyone with a concealed hammer could have done serious damage. There was a uniformed guard next to it, but I was standing on the right side of the exhibit and he was on the left. My hands were less than a foot away and completely unimpeded. I understand that, unfortunately, it is better protected, but less accessible these days.
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