Colorado woman accused of damaging $30 million painting

Yahoo (Reuters) ^ | 1/4/12 | keith coffman

[DemforBush]

DENVER (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on Wednesday...

[DemforBush]

The perp looks like she's either off her bean or an OWS type. Or maybe both.

I'm actually surprised she was able to get so close to the painting as to deface it. You'd think a painting worth that much would be guarded/behind glass/etc.

[DemforBush]

BTW, here's the perp and the painting:

The Perp

The painting

[Doogle]

...her next neck tat

[Bobalu]

A punch and a scratch could only improve that hideous painting...ugggh

[woofie]

Can I deface her tattoos?

[JohnG45]

Is that picture of the painting “before” or “after” the damage?

If “before”, then I claim her intervention may have actually improved upon the “artist’s” original work.

[Drew68]

That painting is worth $30 million?

Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work.

[TigersEye]

She may have some issues but anyone who would pay more than fifty bucks for that is a real loop-de-loop.

Might make a nice pattern for a Naugahyde couch though.

[Oztrich Boy]

The painting

That's $10,000 damage to a $30M painting? I would have said : totally writen-off.

[TigersEye]

...an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2",...

That is all wrong. I suggest "How Now Brown Cow?"

[Colorado Cowgirl]

Proverbs 26:3 Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle, and a fool with a rod to his back! There isn’t 30 thousand dollars worth of paintings in the whole museum if they call that art. Someone needs to be beaten with a rod for paying that much money for crap!

[exPBRrat]

HUH! 30 million of hard earned money or National Endowment for the Arts money? Anyway I’m with the poster that recommends these pricy works of art be protected by glass.

[Uncle Lonny]

“A punch and a scratch could only improve that hideous painting...ugggh”

Probably if she crapped on it, the paintings value would have gone up another ten mill.

Such is the absurdity they call “modern art” these days.

[kanawa]

"...pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it."

LOL

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There isn’t 30 thousand dollars worth of paintings in the whole museum if they call that art.

Monet, towards the end of his life, was a hack. He knocked out about one nearly identical copy of Water Lilies at Giverny, if he even drew them himself. How you put a value on "art" is a subject for P.T. Barnum.

[Caipirabob]

I'm not justifying the destruction of it, but this is meaningless, tasteless "art" that only a commie or socialist would love - right in line with the stated goals of communism in the senate record.

Basically, it was already crap. Who could tell the difference if she wiped with it?

[Ann Archy]

OMG! I could do that for $3.00!!! It probably WAS done for $3.00.

[Mister Da]

Looks like camo!

[ZX12R]

"...pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it." LOL

It seems she found the painting inspirational.