Posted on 10/27/2022 7:14:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring at a Dutch museum on Thursday (Oct 27) in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged.
Three men were arrested after the attack at The Hague's Mauritshuis museum on the 1665 masterpiece which has inspired a bestselling novel and a Hollywood film.
The trio were Belgian, one 42-year-old and two 45-year-olds. "They remain in custody and are being questioned," The Hague police said. Social media images showed a man wearing a "Just Stop Oil" T-shirt gluing his head to the painting, while another glued his hand to the wall and a third emptied out a tin of what appeared to be tomato soup.
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Drown them in petroleum.
This (V dub) would be the correct response. Idiotic, infantile tantrums by deranged adults must not be indulged, lest we encourage more.
Tickle them with a nail gun.
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I believe that glue is only made from horse hooves. Anything else is an adhesive.
Strip them naked, turn off the lights, kill the heating, lock the doors check on them in 72 hours.
My grandfather could paint like that. Very few of his paintings were original though. He could take that painting and paint one that looked just like it.
Wait until they do a Jackson Pollock painting, it would be an improvement.
These idiots need to be targeted....
If I owned or managed an art museum, I’d close it until all these people are rounded up and .........
If they were going after gas stations, refineries and wells, I would ‘get it’ even though I’d still want them executed, because those are legitimate targets in a war.... But attacking paintings because someone scooped up a few pints of oil oozing up naturally 400 years ago and mixing some pigments with it is just insanity.
There’s some deep (and dangerous) symbolism here - they are attacking some of the most treasured and respected pieces of western civilization.
My grandmother had a brother who copied Old Masters
The first time I saw The Laughing Cavalier, Blue Boy, Red Boy, and Pinky were the copies in his studio when I was little ..
They were wonderful ...
Through him I learnt to love classical art ...
Granted they werent to real thing but they were close ...
Pour nasty-smelling chemicals on them.
Dust them with itching powder.
Tattoo “LOSER” on their foreheads.
Shave their heads with a rusty razor.
Strip them naked.
Do not feed them, water them, or give them any container in which to relieve themselves.
I don’t think these old men appreciate the beauty of that painting.
Oil paint is not based on petroleum. It’s usually linseed oil.
The event was in Holland and the perps are Belgian; however, the T-shirts show words in English. I guess they are after the English and American media.
The paint was made with linseed oil not crude oil. Dumbasses
Good point.
Now that you mention it, I kinda knew that many years ago, but it completely slipped from my recollection since then.
So that makes these vandals doubly stupid.
I completely agree with you. Speaking as a painter myself, Vermeer is one of our most important artists for myriad reasons. There are so very few paintings by him.
This one…a stunning beauty indeed.
Take them outside and glue them to the building from head to toe. Just leave them there and call it performance art in the nude.
This could be resolved with a good old Alabama zzz kickin.
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