Stop laughing and leave her alone . . . she hasn't finished it yet.
Heres What Happened When an Elderly Woman Took It Upon Herself to Restore a Painting in a Nearby Church
by Arcadio 50 Replies latest social humour
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poppers
I love this thread....still LOLing...Thank you Arcadio for posting this...
Thanks to BluePill2 I saw this 2 days ago.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/233899/1/The-new-Jesus-laugh-hard-and-loud
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Jeffro
Obviously she was 'blessed' by the 'holy spirit' and was 'inspired' to paint what Jesus really looked like.
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jws
Christ as a Neanderthal. And who said Christians don't believe in evolution?
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rebel8
This is a really wacky story, certainly.
I am wondering though if she had Gaudi in mind when she chose her...um...style. Gaudi did it a little better than she did.
Gaudi:
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King Solomon
Ya' know, she really didn't do such a bad job on the tunic, and perhaps that was her problem: she got cocky. So she dabbled in the hair a bit, but decided to dive into the 'deep end' of his face and beard: the rest is straight out of a Mr Bean movie.
I'm guessing it doesn't look too bad to her, and wouldn't look so bad to anyone else, if we also had dense cataracts... Try it: squint your eyes, or look at it thru wax paper, and it's not THAT bad (although they should rename the painting, "Rhesus Jesus").
Gaudi seems right, although I'm getting a sense that she was trying to place a Van Gogh fur cap on a head and face of Edvard Munch's "the Scream"?
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rebel8
Yeah it does kinda look like The Scream too.
Ancient artwork in churches is a very well-known national treasure in her area. It's not as though she wouldn't have known she was destroying something valuable? Maybe she wasn't in her right mind.
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james_woods
My thought in hearing this was - she must have taken quite a bit of time to do this.
Wasn't anybody watching?
Edit - my second thought is that this may actually be good for that church. This thing is a world-wide celebrity now, and will surely bring many tourists.
Who knows - maybe in time to come there will be pilgrimages to the thing?
After all, Grandma Moses paintings are worth a lot of money these days...
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Sizemik said:
Stop laughing and leave her alone . . . she hasn't finished it yet.
Ohhhh, I'm pretty sure she's done alright, LOL.... At least, she won't be getting a chance to 'finish' what she 'started'.
She apparently realized she was in way over her head, and turned herself in to the Police/Church. I think one of the officials at the Church admitted the security was lax, such that she was able to remove the painting and take it home without permission or anyone noticing (note to self: use a little old lady as a 'mule' for my next attempted art heist).
James said:
Edit - my second thought is that this may actually be good for that church. This thing is a world-wide celebrity now, and will surely bring many tourists. Who knows - maybe in time to come there will be pilgrimages to the thing?
I'm sure they're going to have professional art restorers give it a go before it gets shown to the public (the task now includes fixing her "fix").
BTW, note how the original work (a painting of a slightly rolled painting) depicts a scroll at the top and bottom, coming out towards the viewer on the top. She inverted the direction of the scroll on the lower part of the painting, so it's rolling outwards on both the top and bottom now. So like the eyes looking at the viewer, it's another example of second-guessing the original artist's compositional choices, which is something every brave professional "art restorer" must be ready and willing to do. :)
