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(Guardian)   "Leonardo da Vinci would have approved of protestors defacing his artwork", say protestors defacing da Vinci's artwork   (theguardian.com) divider line
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toddalmighty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 7:37:49 PM  
It's a copy. Nobody gives a shiat, including Da Vinci.
 
raerae1980 [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:13:24 PM  
Welp...i guess this thread had no chance 🙄
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:16:08 PM  
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Leonardo would certainly have been intrigued by new oils, silly children.
 
iodized attic salt
2023-02-08 10:32:49 PM  
It's true.  Also, Botticelli says I can double-park while I get coffee.
 
6nome
2023-02-08 10:39:05 PM  
He was great in Titanic.
 
newsvertisement [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:40:11 PM  
I've seen this movie. Those nutjobs are going to cause a bigger disaster by their own direct action, all the while thinking they're helping.
 
oopsboom
2023-02-08 10:41:27 PM  
that checks out, i saw him say it in a tiktok video.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-08 10:41:38 PM  
It's a stupid tactic but... subby... they literally caused like 3x the damage to a 'nearby sofa'.

The frame was barely damaged; the painting is fine.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-08 10:43:13 PM  
let's all bow our heads for a moment of silence for the nearby sofa
 
Fano
2023-02-08 10:44:58 PM  
Perhaps they instead should try defacing the property of oil and executives
 
morg
2023-02-08 10:45:04 PM  
if Leonardo da Vinci was looking down on us, he would 100% agree with what we've done. He was quoted as saying that Nature never breaks her own laws.

How the eff does that have anything to with protesting big oil?
 
NM Volunteer [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:45:09 PM  
da Vinci would have been too puzzled by the electricity and running water in the museum to pay attention to their temper tantrum.
 
6nome
2023-02-08 10:45:30 PM  

gameshowhost: let's all bow our heads for a moment of silence for the nearby sofa


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silverjets
2023-02-08 10:45:36 PM  
Meh.  If I ran a museum or gallery and this happened I'd just close the gallery for the day, kick everyone else out, lock the doors and turn off the lights.  They can just sit in the dark with their hands glued to the wall like the morons that they are.
 
WTP 2
2023-02-08 10:47:29 PM  
pour a bucket of glue on THEM and just say you are here to help...!
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:47:37 PM  
"We need them to start realising the laws that we have at the moment in this country are hostage to private capital, big oil and ultimately are not protecting everybody."

EVERYONE ALREADY REALIZES THAT you brainless twits. Your gluing yourselves to various artworks and throwing soup at the walls is not accomplishing anything besides making yourselves and your cause look like a bunch of childish fools and incompetent vandals.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-08 10:50:51 PM  
Good!  This only sticks it to rich fat cats because working class people are too stupid and uncultured to appreciate great works of art.

Who's with me?!
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:52:05 PM  
DaVinci tagged churches.

He also precipitated the exploits of Hudson Hawk.
 
Patmaniac
2023-02-08 10:52:09 PM  
Da Vincis original is a fresco. Not oil paint. No priceless antiquities were damaged in the protest of a copy.
Hitlers Luftewaffe nearly obliterated the original. Luckily it was sandbagged and protected when a bomb landed just 80 ft away.
 
bane365 [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:54:23 PM  
Featuring defendant Tristan Strange and judge William Nelson.
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born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:58:34 PM  

Rapmaster2000: Good!  This only sticks it to rich fat cats because working class people are too stupid and uncultured to appreciate great works of art.

Who's with me?!


LOL, when these clowns start breaking in to the houses of oil executives and gluing themselves to their personally owned works of art, then they'll get a golf clap
 
EdgeRunner [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 11:00:33 PM  
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"Nope, I don't agree at all. After what Michael Bay did to me and my brothers, you think I'd side with anyone who defaces someone else's art?"
 
MythDragon
2023-02-08 11:00:48 PM  
I believe them. It's not too hard to know what a person who died before you were born would say about a given subject. For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me. I also know that JFK would have totally been on board with Marilyn Monroe having sex with me.
 
Fano
2023-02-08 11:10:17 PM  

MythDragon: I believe them. It's not too hard to know what a person who died before you were born would say about a given subject. For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me. I also know that JFK would have totally been on board with Marilyn Monroe having sex with me.


One of my favorite things is when people reassess historical figures and discover that Lo! They actually believed pretty much the same things the writer did!
 
CruiserTwelve
2023-02-08 11:12:08 PM  

MythDragon: For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me.


I'm sure Marilyn wouldn't object to having sex with you even today. Just bring a shovel.
 
oopsboom
2023-02-08 11:16:31 PM  

silverjets: Meh.  If I ran a museum or gallery and this happened I'd just close the gallery for the day, kick everyone else out, lock the doors and turn off the lights.  They can just sit in the dark with their hands glued to the wall like the morons that they are.


they'd probably consider that a huge win?

i mean they're doing this for the publicity if getting on a few cell phone videos while they get unglued and drug out by security.  the publicity if they got not just the recordings of them doing it but then also shut down the whole gallery for an entire day would be an order of magnitude more...
 
AppleOptionEsc
2023-02-08 11:34:20 PM  

born_yesterday: Rapmaster2000: Good!  This only sticks it to rich fat cats because working class people are too stupid and uncultured to appreciate great works of art.

Who's with me?!

LOL, when these clowns start breaking in to the houses of oil executives and gluing themselves to their personally owned works of art, then they'll get a golf clap


Private security, or cops, are trigger happy. That's the whole appeal of gated communities and enclaves. Ain't no museum security gonna pull a dirty Harry fantasy.
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-02-08 11:36:20 PM  

raerae1980: Welp...i guess this thread had no chance 🙄


Not many do.
 
Iczer
2023-02-08 11:36:57 PM  
Leonardo Da Vinci... The famous artist that primarily used oil-based paints for his masterpieces.

Would approve of you farknuts damaging/possibly destroying his art to protest oil.

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mikechoiselat
2023-02-08 11:37:08 PM  
They look like the type of people I would expect them to look like.
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-02-08 11:39:07 PM  

Rapmaster2000: Good!  This only sticks it to rich fat cats because working class people are too stupid and uncultured to appreciate great works of art.

Who's with me?!


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Jeebus Saves
2023-02-08 11:40:38 PM  

mikechoiselat: They look like the type of people I would expect them to look like.


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StoPPeRmobile
2023-02-08 11:41:16 PM  

gameshowhost: It's a stupid tactic but... subby... they literally caused like 3x the damage to a 'nearby sofa'.

The frame was barely damaged; the painting is fine.


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The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 11:52:31 PM  

MythDragon: I believe them. It's not too hard to know what a person who died before you were born would say about a given subject. For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me. I also know that JFK would have totally been on board with Marilyn Monroe having sex with me.


I'd argue but that's too much time away from making out with my Monrobot.
 
5 Pills A Day
2023-02-08 11:53:27 PM  
I see those flag waving, gun toting, bible thumping, Republican white supremacists terrorists are at it again.
 
la_mariee_mise_a_nu
2023-02-08 11:58:59 PM  

iodized attic salt: It's true.  Also, Botticelli says I can double-park while I get coffee.


Obviously, you talked to him before Savonarola got to him; after that he was such a puritan about stuff that he burned his own work.
 
la_mariee_mise_a_nu
2023-02-09 12:09:21 AM  

Iczer: Leonardo Da Vinci... The famous artist that primarily used oil-based paints for his masterpieces.

Would approve of you farknuts damaging/possibly destroying his art to protest oil.

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That was linseed or other plant-derived drying oils-not fossil fuel oil. He might have used natural bitumen on his palette I suppose. . .

That said, Leonardo lived in an era when plague and death was still plenty, and in an age of zealous doomsayers. Once you got him to understand climate change (which I think he could grasp with help, unlike most republicans today), I'm still not sure he'd think the destruction of art was OK, even when the future of the planet was on the line, frankly. Oh, and he was a weapon designer, so he had flexible morals.
 
Prof. Frink [BareFark]
2023-02-09 12:11:03 AM  

The Irresponsible Captain: MythDragon: I believe them. It's not too hard to know what a person who died before you were born would say about a given subject. For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me. I also know that JFK would have totally been on board with Marilyn Monroe having sex with me.

I'd argue but that's too much time away from making out with my Monrobot.


The muffler store? At least they'll let you put it in the tailpipe.
 
BuckTurgidson
2023-02-09 12:16:57 AM  
This as at least as valid an argument as, say Supreme Court justices asserting what Hamilton or Jefferson or 15th-century witch-burners would have to say about short-barreled semi-automatic quick-change high-capacity box magazine fed pistol-gripped rifles, or abortions.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-09 12:28:54 AM  

Jeebus Saves: raerae1980: Welp...i guess this thread had no chance 🙄

Not many do.


If a thread is destroyed before it goes public can we say it was aborted?
 
jjorsett
2023-02-09 1:02:50 AM  

gameshowhost: It's a stupid tactic but... subby... they literally caused like 3x the damage to a 'nearby sofa'.

The frame was barely damaged; the painting is fine.


Read to the end. The cops damaged the sofa by putting some of their degluing equipment on it.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 2:38:29 AM  

CruiserTwelve: MythDragon: For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me.

I'm sure Marilyn wouldn't object to having sex with you even today. Just bring a shovel.


Marilyn is buried in a wall.
 
I Ate Shergar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 2:47:06 AM  

The Irresponsible Captain: MythDragon: I believe them. It's not too hard to know what a person who died before you were born would say about a given subject. For instance, I know that Marilyn Monroe would have totally been on board with having sex with me. I also know that JFK would have totally been on board with Marilyn Monroe having sex with me.

I'd argue but that's too much time away from making out with my Monrobot.


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bigfatbuddhist
2023-02-09 6:39:51 AM  
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The Toilet of Venus: In 1914, a suffragette attacked this Diego Velazquez painting with a meat cleaver. There is almost no apparent damage except sometimes you have to jiggle the handle of the toilet.
 
bigfatbuddhist
2023-02-09 6:41:40 AM  
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The Pieta: Michelangelo's sculpture of the dying Christ was attacked in 1972 by Laszlo Toth. Toth apparently thought that he was Christ so he did what Christ would've done: Whale away on something with a hammer. He was put in an Italian mental institution (or as they call it, "Parliament") for two years. After that, he was deported to Australia (or, as they call it, "Poison Animal Land")...
 
bigfatbuddhist
2023-02-09 6:43:40 AM  
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The Virgin and Child: Leonardo's famous unfinished painting was accidentally damaged during a cleaning. Most of the damage was repaired, except for the broken hymen.
 
uberaverage
2023-02-09 10:16:51 AM  
He spent his life creating art and weapons for rich people.
If he were alive, he'd be designing super yachts for oligarchs.
 
Zagroseckt
2023-02-09 11:26:39 AM  
Leonardo da Vinci would of just painted another one.. To bad he's no longer around to get paid for it.


isnt that preticular one a copy of a muril on a wall?
 
LOLITROLU
2023-02-09 11:43:12 AM  

jjorsett: gameshowhost: It's a stupid tactic but... subby... they literally caused like 3x the damage to a 'nearby sofa'.

The frame was barely damaged; the painting is fine.

Read to the end. The cops damaged the sofa by putting some of their degluing equipment on it.


Felony murdercouch damage rule.  The cops would not have damaged the couch if the derps hadn't glued themselves to it, so the criminals are responsible.
 
alice_600 [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 12:29:23 PM  

Jeebus Saves: mikechoiselat: They look like the type of people I would expect them to look like.

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They look like confused college freshman brats who recently started to go vegan and listen to 60s music and the smiths and don't realize that without certain animal proteins they're brains don't reason properly.
 
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