Monet Pisses People Off
Some people really hate impressionism. Paintings of landscapes created by crossing your eyes or painted from behind a dripping wet pane of glass really enrages some folks.
From the AP here:
Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said. She described the damage as an attack on “our memory, our patrimony.”
A surveillance camera caught a group entering the museum, which houses a major collection of Impressionist art on the Left Bank of the French capital along the Seine River.
An alarm sounded and the group left, but not before damaging an invaluable painting, “Le Pont d’Argenteuil,” an aide to Culture Minister Christine Albanel said by telephone.
No arrests were immediately made.
Albanel told France-Info radio that the painting could be restored, but she deplored the attack on “our memory, our patrimony.”
“This splendid Monet painting punched right in the middle,” the minister said with emotion.
According to the aide, a 4-inch tear was made in the Monet. The official, not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, asked not to be named.
The perpetrators were then contemplating throwing elbows at some masterpieces by some Dutch artists, but first wanted to stop off for a soft pretzel and a coke.
