France urged to return looted African art treasures

The Local France ^ | 21 November 2018 | AFP

[CondoleezzaProtege]

[BenLurkin]

It’s ugly.

[a fool in paradise]

Tell Africa that any artifacts containing ivory must be destroyed and will not be returned to shame the continent for the continued practice of poaching.

[a fool in paradise]

PING

[BradyLS]

Seriously? Jar-Jar Binks and Admiral Akbar are modeled on African statues in a French museum?!?

[gaijin]

Does Africa know how to do anything at all other than COMPLAIN..?

[BradyLS]

And Threepio in the middle!?!

[DIRTYSECRET]

AFRICAN treasures? Give them back.

[B.O. Plenty]

The Local France: African *art*....you ARE sh!tting us, right?

[Don W]

My aunt has some African art. I find most of it unimaginative and unsightly. There are a couple of excellent carvings, but not one painting or mask I would consider looking at twice were I in the market. Even the weaves are banal.

[xp38]

I’m sure Italy would like the Mona Lisa back too and Greece the Venus de Milo.

[dfwgator]

And while they’re at it, they can return all the Africans to Africa.

[VietVet876]

One of my favorite pieces of African art when I was a kid was a cast iron coin bank in the form of an African male head with a hand that you put the coin into and, when you pushed the lever on the side, the hand pivoted and the coin was deposited between the head’s substantial lips. And someone once gave my parents a replica sculpture of an African woman with an elongated neck with coiled metal around it, huge ears with metal inserts to elongate them, and huge lips. The wood looked like ebony. Similar to the fretboard on my favorite old Gibson guitar. I think that the coin bank was a replica since the real original ones are now worth good money. There’s collectors for about anything these days. I’d even bet somewhere in the USA (probably in the south) there’s got to be a lawn jockey museum.

[SunkenCiv]

France would be better off keeping the art and getting rid of Macron.

[Chipper]

If they were smart they would give those pieces to their “invaders” and send them back along with the “art”.

[captain_dave]

It all looks like the stuff your kid makes in school and then brings home. Not exactly high art.

[hanamizu]

Greece the Venus de Milo.

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And the Elgin Marbles. Don’t forget them. And all mummies must be returned to Egypt. And then there are my Roman coins. I’ve got about 100 of them. Guess they need to go back to Italy. And my cousin has an E-type Jag. I guess that needs to go back to England...

[5th MEB]

What do you expect from a continent where 95% of the people still live in mud and cow sh!t huts?

[robowombat]

This looks like the store room at the local Home Direct or some such featuring ‘international’ items. Return ll of this crap and there will be room in museums for the Louvre to loan them some of the huge collection of Western High Art they have no room to exhibit. The carvings of savages look like the stuff of nightmares, the paintings and sculpture of European high art look like dreamscapes (OK Hieronymus Bosch excepted).

[robowombat]

You know the lawn jockey was originally white? No joke.